Leaders of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports yesterday urged the government to fully implement the Phulbari contract, which bans open-pit mining, and expel Asia Energy to protect the country's mineral resources.

Planning and budgeting should be done by keeping gender in mind to ensure equality and equity for the country’s women tea-garden workers, said speakers at a webinar yesterday.

Activists of Adivasi Chhatra Sangram Parishad yesterday demanded a separate human rights commission to prevent “oppression against indigenous women”.

Activists of Adivasi Chhatra Sangram Parishad today demanded a separate human rights commission to prevent “oppression against indigenous women”.

Nearly 600 people have been forcibly disappeared by security forces since 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday. Many turned up dead, some came back alive, and at least 86 still remain missing.

Ancestral lands of indigenous people, both in hilly areas and plains, are being seized for constructing hotels, eco-parks, and security camps, in the name of different development projects.

Speakers at a webinar today said that the Covid-19 pandemic has harmed the overall lives and livelihood of indigenous women. Titled "Livelihood Crisis and Security of Indigenous Women in Covid-19", the webinar was organised by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

Underprivileged Children’s Educational Programmes (UCEP) Bangladesh and Schneider Electric Foundation will train over 15,000 underprivileged youths in electrical and solar trades across Bangladesh over the next five years.

Eminent citizens today issued a statement demanding arrest and trial of the culprits responsible for vandalising and ransacking several houses, shops and temples of the Hindu community in Khulna's Rupsha upazila.

Human rights activist Sultana Kamal today said, at a webinar, that indigenous people are not only losing their homesteads, gardens, trees, forestlands, or lakes, their cremation grounds are also being grabbed by the state or the people patronised by the state.

In terms of proactive disclosure of information, based on the Right to Information Act, government organisations are doing better than NGOs, a Transparency International Bangladesh study has found.

Government organisations are doing better in comparison to non-government organisations in terms of proactive disclosure of information on the basis of Right to Information Act, according to a Transparency International Bangladesh study.

Vashkar Bhattacharjee, national consultant for accessibility of a2i, has been selected as an honouree for the 2021 D-30 Disability Impact List.

To encourage families to condemn the harmful practise of child marriage and support every girl’s dream to achieve their aspirations, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a campaign called “Actions to Prevent Child Marriage in Bangladesh” yesterday.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today rejected Amnesty International’s statement over the Digital Security Act saying the statement of the human rights organisation is “motivated”.

The government has an extreme lack of respect for persons with disabilities, as their needs have been constantly ignored in many spheres of life, said eminent economist Prof Abul Barkat yesterday at a virtual discussion.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan today said that she has not received any response from the government regarding the persecution of cartoonist Ahmed Kishore or writer Mushtaq Ahmed.

The United Nations on Wednesday warned that public and private actors in countries around the world, including Bangladesh, are intervening against online content in ways that curtail rights and muzzle criticism.

To live off the streets of Dhaka is not merely living in hunger, it also comes with an immense lack of security. For the “tokai” -- a child waste picker -- living in the capital, hunger and malnutrition is almost the least of their concern, with much bigger dangers lurking around all the time.

Squashed between cyber-harassment and the surveillance state, the space for freedom of expression on the internet has now shrunk more than ever, said speakers at a virtual discussion yesterday,