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 ...

While one can argue that ‘now’ is a more fitting time than before for special days, such as Valentine’s Day, to be celebrated, Adviser Farida Akhter’s Facebook appeal to refrain from observing 14 Febr ...

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.

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.

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

The repression of mass protests in Bangladesh last year that toppled longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina left as many as ...

A new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office has detailed the brutal repression of student-led protests in Bangladesh last year, accusing the former government of Sheikh Hasina and security ...

There are grounds to believe extrajudicial killings took place with the ‘knowledge and direction’ of the leadership, said the ...

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

UN human rights investigators accuse the deposed government of Sheikh Hasina of a brutal response that they warn could amount ...