Twenty-seven distinguished citizens have demanded that the government fully implement the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord, 1997 through upholding the CHT Regulation, 1900 to protect the rights, heritage and culture of its indigenous people.

Students of at least 10 colleges and schools, including Government Science College and Holy Cross College, blocked the road in Dhaka’s Farmgate today -- causing traffic jam in nearby areas.

Sixty one percent of Bangladesh’s population still do not have access to safely managed toilet facilities, UN Water data suggests.

Four concerned citizens yesterday sent a legal notice to Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, the owner company of Facebook, and

Coordination between organisations fighting for workers’ rights is imperative to ensure rights of tea workers, said speakers at a workshop yesterday.

Rights activists have demanded amendment of section 155(4) of the Evidence Act to protect rape victims from being demeaned during cross-examination before court.

National Forum for the Prevention of Violence against Women, a platform of 26 human rights and development organisations, have expressed grave concern over the acquittal of five accused in the Raintree rape case.

Reaching deep inside the Sundarbans, one will be taken aback to see mobile banking agents at such a remote place. But their set-ups inside the forest do a lot to help thousands of anglers, who build temporary houses there during fishing season.

Law enforcers stood mum as the marauders conducted their mayhem at the puja mandaps during Durga Puja, several of the victims told the hearing while giving their deposition to it.

‘Justice denied on grounds of character, for how long?’ was the slogan of the women who took to the streets of the capital at midnight on Thursday.

The country’s people should work together to establish the secular Bangladesh that Manabendra Narayan Larma dreamt of, said speakers at a meeting yesterday.

“On this day in 2016, three Santal brothers were killed but they did not get justice till today. The killers were identified but never arrested. This five-year-long trial is not moving forward either,” former caretaker government's adviser and human rights activist Advocate Sultana Kamal said today.

Marginalised people in the country are facing discriminatory attitudes in many cases while seeking government services and benefits, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said in a study today.

Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Alliance demanded judicial investigation into the recent communal violence, including arson attacks on the houses of Hindus.

Right activists yesterday urged the government to form a separate ministry and commission to safeguard the rights of indigenous people across the country in the wake of constant attack on their ancestral land.

Although the rate of child marriage in Bangladesh has dropped by 40 percent since independence, 13 million girls in the country are still married off before they are 15, mostly at the compulsion of family or society. 

Thirteen environmentalists, rights activists and prominent citizens have issued a letter to Sylhet divisional commissioner, demanding protection of the ancestral and customary land of the Khasi people living in Daluchhara and Belkuma Khasiapunji, located in the Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

The minimum wage board for tea workers, a government-led tripartite body, have continued the 170-year-long “tradition” of depriving workers by recommending an unfair wage structure that conflict with existing laws, said speakers at a virtual dialogue yesterday.

A recent study on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on child marriage situation in Cox’s Bazar found that its rates have increased significantly in the district since March 2021, with the highest increase of 82 percent in Eidgaon upazila.

“I don’t believe that expressing an opinion can be considered a crime. I still believe in freedom of speech.”