UN Women Bangladesh held a learning-sharing event at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) today showcasing the remarkable results achieved by the Combatting Gender-Based Violence (CGBV) project

Foreign diplomats at a discussion today highlighted the importance of a free and independent press in any democracy

Bangladesh has slipped one notch in this year's World Press Freedom Index, prepared by Reporters Without Borders, also known as Reporters sans frontières (RSF)

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), a civil society watchdog, has again called for the repeal of the Digital Security Act on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

Transparency International Bangladesh has called upon the government to ensure fundamental rights, including the security of journalists and create an amiable ambience for freethinking, freedom of the press and the right to the free flow of information.

The historic May Day will be observed in Bangladesh today as elsewhere across the world with due respect

Women rights activists and groups have expressed their shock and serious concern over an incident involving Krishak Sramik Janata League leader Abdul Kader Siddique, who prevented the Sakhipur Upazila Nirbahi Officer from performing a guard of honour for deceased freedom fighter Abdul Hamid, simply because the UNO was a woman.

The Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy 2015, which aims to safeguard the rights and well-being of over two million domestic workers -- mostly women and children -- have remained unimplemented for the past eight years due to the government’s lack of political will and negligence.

Says Anisul Huq

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq yesterday urged all relevant stakeholders, including, owners, labourers and government to work sincerely in order to ensure a congenial atmosphere at workplaces, saying that having health service and protection is the legal right of every labourer.

Many brides and grooms from all over the world have come to the limelight by organising fancy weddings which make for great photos on social media

A candlelight vigil was held in Savar today as relatives, and leaders and activists of different labour organisations remembered the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy.

Thirty-one social and cultural organisations today demanded the scrapping of the Digital Security Act and other repressive laws to ensure people’s freedom of expression

Although progress has been made in the garment sector for the RMG workers’ betterment following the Rana Plaza tragedy, it is nowhere enough, US Ambassador Peter Haas has said.

Expressing deep concern over the barbaric flogging and stoning of a wife of an expatriate in Barajum village of Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) has demanded the proper implementation of the Supreme Court verdict to stop extrajudicial punishment to this end.

A group of citizens in Rajshahi today demanded legal action to ensure justice for the death of Sultana Jasmine while in Rab custody.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for the immediate release of Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, who was arrested early Wednesday after being sued in a Digital Security Act case while his newspaper’s editor himself faces the same charges

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today condemned the arrest of Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams and his production before the court 30 hours after his detention

The Children’s Act-2013 needs to be implemented as soon as possible, along with creating a separate commission, to ensure the rights of children, said speakers at an event yesterday.

Equal opportunities and a congenial academic atmosphere are crucial to developing the inner potential of each child, irrespective of gender, said speakers at a programme today..They were speaking at a programme, titled "Model School Fair", organised by Plan International Bangladesh and Sur