THE latest Supreme Court ruling is a damning indictment of the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) conduct and the ongoing political witch-hunt. The country’s top anti-graft watchdog is accused not only of trampling on human rights, freedom and human dignity but also…
Bangladesh authorities have quarantined 29 Rohingya refugees without adequate access to aid on an unstable silt island in the Bay of Bengal, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Tuesday. “Bangladesh faces the tremendous challenge of assisting…
Humankind is going through a new and unprecedented experience with the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. We still do not know who 'patient zero', the first person to be infected and transmit it to others, was. The severity of this…
Child shipbreaking workers sleep on a metal bed. Rahman Yard in Chittagong. — Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World RAHNUMA forwarded me Laily’s wrenching FaceBook post. Her father is dying, far away in a UK hospital. Heart breaking, holding back tears, she…
Amidst the uncertainty and fear that has taken hold globally as the scope and impact of the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, we cannot lose sight that human rights principles are essential to all aspects of this crisis. And…
Photo: BIGSTOCK Kajol, editor of fortnightly newspaper Pakkhokal, worked at the dailies -- Samakal and Bonik Barta -- as a photo journalist Journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, one of the accused in the case filed against Manabzamin Editor Matiur Rahman…
Pro-democracy protesters from HK Alliance hold placards of detained rights activists as they march towards the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on February 19, 2020 AFP UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet stressed the need for urgent action on…
The new year and in fact a new decade have dawned under dark clouds in the region and the world more broadly. The concluding weeks of the last year have seen major protests in India against the worrying Citizenship…
The recent on-going genocide on the Rohingya community comprising a major Muslim population has risen ample of questions on Human Rights Violation. While the uproars are on peak on social media and among public intellectuals across the world against…
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation might have turned 35 but its three-and-a-half decades of existence has largely failed to advance its own central tenet—regional cooperation. As SAARC marked its 35th anniversary with a flurry of congratulatory messages from heads…