Kenneth Roth This past month has seen a sudden proliferation of horrific attacks on ordinary people apparently committed by the self-described Islamic State, or ISIS. Between the slaughter in Paris, the bombs in Beirut, Baghdad, and Ankara, and the downing…
The Sector Commanders’ Forum on Friday demanded withdrawal of its press statement by Amnesty International issued on October 27 or to correct it with suitable logical words. The Sector Commanders’ Forum, an organisation of the Bangladesh Liberation War veterans and…
Meenakshi Ganguly Rangoon – On November 8, the Burmese people will choose over 1,100 representatives to the country’s national parliament and state and regional assemblies. It is a massive exercise with over 6,000 candidates from 93 registered political parties in…
The Ambassador of the European Union to Bangladesh, Pierre Mayaudon, has in a facebook status deplored the latest attacks against freedom of expression. A status given on the EU facebook page on Sunday is as follows:
Ensure oversight; end chaining, involuntary treatment – HRW Nairobi – People with mental health conditions in Somaliland are increasingly forced into institutions, where they face serious abuses and poor conditions. The Somaliland authorities should provide oversight for all mental health…
Dhaka-Police arrested an employee of ‘Ghoroa Hotel and Restaurant’ from the city’s Motijheel area on Thursday over the killing of hotel worker Riyad.
About 143 people were reportedly killed and nearly 5,000 injured in political violence across the country till September this year, says a bulletin of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a human rights body.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on Sunday said highest security measures have been taken to ensure smooth observance of Holy Ashura and celebration of Durga Puja.
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday urged the Prime Minister to form a national government to overcome the country’s ‘current critical condition’.
US Department of Defence to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of US air strike on Afghan hospital. The Pentagon is to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Doctors…
Rights group on Saturday demanded Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) waiver for Bangladesh as well as other LDCs until become a developed country.
A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building…
The Imputiny index prepared by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free, says latest report published in the CPJ website. The ambush of a convoy in South Sudan…
Cricketer Shahadat Hossain’s wife has been arrested in Dhaka on charges of torturing an underage house help. The pacer and his wife have been absconding since a case was registered against them under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.Miprur…
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Friday called on all states to assume the search of the disappeared as a priority, urging them to start by recognising the issue and determining its exact extent through…
Dhaka- Two suspected forest robbers were killed in a lynch-mob attack following an internal feud at Sora village in Shyamnagar upazila on Monday evening. The deceased were identified as M Obaidullah, 27, son of M Yeakub Ali, and M Hazrat…
At least 12 bloggers have packed their bags and fled abroad in recent weeks. Others are preparing to follow suit and leave the Muslim-majority country. They are all ardent advocates of atheist standpoints in their blogs. Despite the fact that…
Kenneth Roth European leaders may differ about how to respond to the asylum-seekers and migrants surging their way, but they seem to agree they face a crisis of enormous proportions. Germany’s Angela Merkel has called it “the biggest challenge I…
Dr. Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director of Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has been elected to the International Board of Directors of Transparency International (TI), the Berlin based global civil society coalition against corruption for a three-year period from September 2015. This is…
Date for reunions not yet set; Seoul targets time around Chuseok in late September North Korea has accepted the offer by South Korea’s Red Cross to hold working-level talks on September 7 to discuss the reunions of families separated since…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday urged the United Nations to take an initiative for forming an international probe team to look into enforced disappeasrances in Bangladesh and alleged that all such incidents took place at the behest of the…
“On this international day, I urge all Member States to ratify or accede to the Convention without delay, and I call on the States parties to the Convention to implement it. It is time for an end to all enforced…
Shantha Rau Barriga, Director, Disability Rights Abdul Basit, a 43-year-old prisoner paralyzed from the waist down after developing tuberculosis in prison in 2010, will likely go to the gallows in his wheelchair in the next few days. Basit is the…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered judicial inquiry against three members, including the Commanding Officer of Rapid Action Battalion-2, in connection with the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Hazabagh unit President Arzu Mia in a ‘gunfight’ on August 18.…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed BNP Chairperson’s Adviser and journalists’ union leader Shawkat Mahmud on a three-day remand in a case filed with the city’s Ramna Police Station on charge of arson attack. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan of the…
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based international human rights watchdog, has said that free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before. “Free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before, held hostage between angry, machete-wielding radicals on…
By David Harding Doha (AFP) – Qatar on Tuesday officially launches one of its most “significant” labour reforms to guarantee migrant workers’ wages, but rights groups are concerned over implementation of the new regulations. The Wage Protection System (WPS) aims…
New York – Four courageous and tireless advocates for human rights are the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. The winners, leading voices for justice in their countries, are…
The Bangladeshi authorities must send a strong message that killings aimed at silencing dissenting voices are despicable and will not be tolerated, Amnesty International said in reaction to the news that blogger Niloy Neel was hacked to death at his…