Francesco Martone Deforestation and climate change are human rights issues. Indigenous peoples must be at the forefront of future mitigation and adaptation actions. Forests have been at the centre of climate change negotiations for many years now, in particular in…
Istanbul – Landmines placed decades ago by the Turkish military have killed at least three civilians trying to flee Syria and injured at least nine others, Human Rights Watch said today. The landmines, in a restricted zone along the border…
New York – Iran’s judiciary should vacate the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who faces imminent execution for Facebook posts linked to his account. On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling sentencing Soheil Arabi…
By Stephen Evans More than 120 former prostitutes who worked near a US military base in South Korea are going to court to seek compensation from the Korean government. They say the authorities actively facilitated their work – and that…
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno Many questions are already being raised about the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August. However, many…
News Desk The Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) has written an open letter to all governments of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, to request for a possibility of establishing a human rights mechanism in South Asia.…
Analysis by Susan Bissell United Nations – Next week marks 25 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a historic commitment to children and the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history. The…
A UN committee has called for the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record. The human rights committee passed a motion seeking a probe into alleged crimes against humanity committed by…
Geneva – Evidence of the use of incendiary weapons in Ukraine and Syria highlights the need for stricter law to govern these weapons, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.…
Criticising the role of law enforcers in the incidents of ‘crossfire’, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman said on Thursday the state must ensure human rights even to offenders. He said this while addressing a…
Two recent remarks made by the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Dr. Mizanur Rahman have irked a section of the police administration because those challenged the police’s discretion to shoot at people on the charge of being extremists…
The Election Commission has registered more than 4.5 million fresh voters in 511 out of the 514 upazilas and thanas across Bangladesh. The figure of new voters is commensurate with the EC’s estimation of finding 46 lakh voters across the…
New York – The death sentence against Muhammed Kamaruzzman, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, should immediately be stayed. Kamaruzzman should be granted a right to appeal against the death…
Tirana Hassan ERBIL, Iraq — Marauding pro-government militias are using the fight against the Islamic State as a pretext to destroy Sunni Arab communities across the country. Behind the relative safety of the large concrete blast walls, a Kurdish Peshmerga…
Two United Nations human rights experts on Thursday urged the government of Bangladesh to halt the execution of war crimes convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, leader Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, condemned to death for crimes against humanity. UN Special Rapporteurs on summary executions Christof…
Muslim immigrants in Australia are going through a tough time as some young Australian Muslims who joined IS posted some threatening videos on the internet. It has become hard for peace loving Muslim immigrants as they are facing racial abuses…
Bangladesh Bar Council vice chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Monday said the people of the country are not safe in the hands of the current ‘illegitimate government’. “This government has assumed office illegally through holding a farcical election on January…
Voicing deep concern over the recent spate in killings and abductions, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman on Monday feared that the country’s human rights may be at stake if the law order situation continues…
After the local Human Chains at Road 8A and Satmasjid Road in Dhanmandi, foot overbridge on Elephant Road and BCSIR Laboratory, in front of National Museum at Shahbagh, ICDDR,B gate at Mohakhali and on Aricha Road near Jatiyo Smriti Shoudho…
A slum dweller drowned in a water body after being ‘chased by cops’ at a slum in the capital’s Mirpur area on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Khaleque, 40, son of late Abul Kalam of Rangpur Sadar upazila…
Police rescued a trader from Chhongachha in Sadar upazila early Friday after eight days into his abduction. The rescued is Jilur Rahman, 31, son of Abul Hossain of the area. He has an electronics goods shop at Chhangachha Bazar.
This award is selected by the International Human Rights Community and given to Human Rights Defenders who have shown deep commitment and face great personal risk. The aim of the award is to highlight their work and protect them through…
British High Commissioner Robert Gibson on Monday said independent media, strong parliamentary opposition and institutional independence are essential for strong democracy. Gibson was talking to reporters after his meeting with the City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque at Nagar Bhaban.
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights body, on Thursday expressed grave concern over the abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique. The human rights group urged the Bangladesh government to expedite efforts to ensure the…
Indian authorities handed over 18 Bangladeshi children, who languished in jail for four years for entering the country illegally, to Bangladesh authorities at Benapole check post on Monday evening. Border Security Force (BSF) of India and its immigration police formally…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said the government will try to introduce a pension system in the non-government organised sector within the five-year tenure of the present government.
An alleged top terror and his associate sustained bullet injuries in an attack by their rivals at the railway station in the district town on Saturday evening. The injured were identified as Polsan, a top terror of the town and…
Two suspected pirates were killed in a ‘shootout’ between their cohorts and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Char Balua in Companiganj upazila early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Sumon, 25, and Javed, 22, both members of notorious…
Johannesburg – Anti-balaka fighters killed at least 72 Muslim men and boys, some as young as nine, in two recent attacks in southwestern Central African Republic. The assaults, on February 1 and 5, 2014, were in the village of Guen,…
A ruling party MP allegedly beat up a journalist in sadar upazila in the district on Thursday. Witnesses said Awami League MP (Sadar constituency) Abdul Odud physically assaulted the district correspondent of Daily Jugantor, Emran Faruq Masum, in front of…