The Gambia accuses Myanmar of breaching the 1948 genocide convention and urged the UN top court to order Myanmar to stop genocide against the Rohingya minority.

Describing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a "dangerous turn in the wrong direction", a federal US commission on international religious freedom seeks American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal Indian leadership if the bill with the "religious criterion" is passed by both houses of Parliament.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will establish human rights in the country through ensuring the trial of all the incidents of human rights violation.

The 15-member International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is set to launch the case of Myanmar’s human rights violations against the Rohingyas.

Marking the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, four leading private satellite television channels of Bangladesh have come forward to allocate one-minute free air coverage to promote children’s issues.

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, demands an independent inquiry commission to investigate all sorts of rights violation including rape, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance in the country.

The road communication of Mymensingh with Dhaka and three other districts remains suspended as transport owners are observing an indefinite strike for the second consecutive day.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed his gratitude that not a single incident of atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh took place as long as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was alive.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 is to deliver verdict in a case filed against a Rajshahi man for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

New Zealand police say they are opening a criminal investigation into the deaths of tourists on a volcanic island.

Four out of 10 young people view climate change as one of the most important issues facing the world, an Amnesty International survey on the state of human rights shows.

Chile's air force has lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight to the country's base in Antarctica.

A young woman is killed and five other people are injured in an explosion at a sweater factory in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Canada and the Netherlands express their intention to jointly assist Gambia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the alleged acts of genocide committed against Rohingyas by Myanmar.

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority call for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

The home ministry transfers a total of 11 Additional Deputy Inspector Generals of Police in a major reshuffle to bring dynamism in the police administration.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that people’s human rights index reached beneath the zero level during the rule of the current government.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on December 9, 2019

Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) detain one person and recover 1,925 pieces of yaba tablets from his possession at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

The government decides to give a subsidy of Tk 10,000 per ticket of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka flight to carry undocumented migrant workers under an amnesty programme back for good (B4G) of the Malaysian government.