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.

Twenty-two years have come and gone since her husband was shot to death, but Selina Akhter Lucky has all but given up hope for justice for the brutal murder.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today (August 16, 2022) criticised human rights activists of the country for expressing concern about the human rights situation in Bangladesh to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

Rohingya men and women appealed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to help improve the conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state so that they can return to their homeland that they fled amid brutal military crackdown in 2017.

Rights activists yesterday urged the visiting UN human rights chief to impress upon the government the need for an independent commission to investigate extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.