People in Bangladesh who cooperated with the UN on human rights issues have faced reprisals because of it, the UN said in a new report presented at the Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday.

The country’s youth have to be made aware of the process for seeking information under the Right to Information Act 2009, Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International (TIB), said yesterday.

Speakers at a webinar yesterday said the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA) is a threat to the people’s right to information.

There is a massive knowledge gap when it comes to the issues of the transgender and Hijra community in the country, said members of the community at a dialogue yesterday.

It is the primary responsibility of the state to protect the human rights of the country’s people, said speakers at an event yesterday.

Amid mass protest, local administration have backed down from their decision to build houses for the destitute under “Ashrayan Project” on a playground at Boldipara village in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila.

More than nine months after being allegedly picked up by men in plainclothes, Imam Mahadi Hasan Dollar returned home on Saturday, but he has not talked publicly about his ordeal.

“How are our loved ones? Are they eating well? Are they being tortured? Are they… alive?”

While their families search every alleyway, survivors say that they lived right around the corner in the capital city. 

The civil society is gripped by fear stemming from cases of enforced disappearances, said human rights advocates at a conference in the capital yesterday.

Rumi (not her real name) was going to the washroom from her cabin in a Barishal-bound passenger launch from Dhaka. At the end of the nightlong journey, she would reach her beloved home in the morning.

Tea workers blocked Juri-Borolekha regional highway in Moulvibazar today for four hours, demanding Tk 300 daily wage.

Demonstrating tea workers today halted Paharika Express, which runs on Chattogram-Sylhet route, demanding a daily wage of Tk 300.

State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian will hold a meeting with tea workers' leaders on Thursday (August 25, 2022) to resolve the ongoing crisis demanding an increase in the wages of tea workers.

The workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Hemayetpur area of ​​Savar demanding their salaries this noon.

Acclaimed poet Nirmalendu Goon has demanded that the daily wage of tea workers be raised to Tk 300.

Many tea garden workers last night vowed to continue their protests for Tk 300 daily wage, hours after they called off their strike following the prime minister's directives for raising their daily wage from Tk 120 to Tk 145.

Families of enforced disappearance victims yesterday demanded that the United Nations be allowed to investigate the alleged rights violations committed by law enforcers.

Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Mir Nahid Ahsan has said the daily wage of tea workers has been increased from Tk 120 to Tk 145, on the directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Questions raised by the High Court during a hearing of a case filed over a woman being assaulted for the dress she was wearing will encourage further harassment of women, two rights organisations said today.