Nari Sanghati, a women’s welfare organisation, yesterday demanded the formation of a women’s rights commission to ensure equality, justice, and security for women in all spheres of life.

The Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF) has called on the government to take immediate action against a series of arson attacks and incidents of vandalism across the country, including recent incidents at Lalon Anand Dham in Faridpur and shrines in Savar and Kushtia

The government will abolish laws that go against the right to information and will amend the Cyber Security Act, Law Adviser Prof Asif Nazrul said yesterday.

The Primary Teacher Coordination Council has demanded the elevation of primary assistant teachers to the 10th grade and 100 percent departmental promotions to address discrimination

Amid growing tension, the indigenous diaspora from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) organised a protest rally in front of the UN headquarters where the United Nations General Assembly is being held on September 24

Workers from two garment factories in Chattogram blocked roads in separate areas of the port city today for an hour, demanding their unpaid wages

A mass media reforms commission could be announced next week, hoped Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam yesterday.   

Following over two weeks of worker unrest that had only recently subsided, some garment workers resumed protests today, demanding a minimum wage of Tk 25,000

The Bangladesh National Hindu Alliance has voiced four key demands, including a three-day public holiday, in anticipation of the upcoming Durga Puja

The Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) today voiced concern over the arrest of Shyamal Dutta, editor of “Bhorer Kagoj” and CJA vice president, and other journalists on “what appears to be trumped up charges of murder”

At the invitation of the interim government, a UN Human Rights Office fact-finding team is conducting an independent investigation into alleged human rights violations centring the student-led protests and its fallout

Thousands of Boeing factory workers in the United States walked off the job Friday after voting overwhelmingly to reject a contract with the embattled aviation giant, its first strike in 16 years

The coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement held rallies in Tangail and Cox's Bazar today as part of their nationwide campaign.

Locals formed a human chain in Tangail’s Madhupur today, demanding reinvestigation and fair trial over the death of Abu Bakar Siddique, a student killed in a clash between two groups of the Bangladesh Chhatra League in Dhaka University in 2010

A committee has been established to monitor and address labour issues and complaints in both the Ready-made garment (RMG) and non-RMG sectors, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, said today

Says central coordinator Masud

People from all walks of life -- alumni of educational institutions, artistes, film personalities, rickshaw-pullers and junior doctors -- separately hit the streets of Kolkata tonight in continued protest over the rape and murder of a medic in RG Kar Hospital a month ago..In a jolt to chie

Several thousand people from the Hindu community yesterday staged a demonstration at Cheragi Intersection in the port city protesting an attack on three Hindu youths by miscreants in the Kadam Mobarak Muslim Orphanage area in the city.

Action will be taken from today against the outsiders and some local Awami League involved in the ongoing labour unrest, Labour and Employment Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan said today

Adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives AF Hassan Ariff said today that there is no quick fix to the breakdown in police morale