Odhikar demands justice for deaths in Bangladesh detention, highlighting human rights violations under former PM Sheikh ...

The United Nations has recommended Bangladesh against banning any political party for the sake of a multiparty democracy.

The Awami League leader had escaped to India in August after anti-discrimination protests against quota system ousted her ...

Speaking on the occasion, Rizvi said Jamaat once waged a movement against the dictatorship of Hussein Muhammad Ershad but later switched alliances ...

Amid efforts by Bangladesh’s interim government to bring ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina back from India, top UN officials said the issue of extradition is a bilateral process and hoped that ...

As many as 1,400 people were killed, mostly by the country's security services, in demonstrations last summer against the now ...

Six months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, Bangladesh faces fresh violence and political unrest amid reports of extremism. How is the interim government going to handle the crisis?

The UN rights office said it had "reasonable grounds to believe" that "murder, torture, imprisonment and infliction of other ...

Human rights abuses were inflicted on some members of Bangladeshi Hindu, Ahmadiyya Muslim, and indigenous communities during anti-discrimination protests and its aftermath last year, a UN report said.

Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh since 2009, is being investigated on suspicion of crimes against humanity, genocide, murder, ...

This is a slightly edited version of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on 5 Aug, before and after. The edits were for grammatical and stylistic reasons.

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last ...