United Nations

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Bangladesh

UN receives copy of Bangladesh’s accession to enforced disappearance treaty

It will enter into force for Bangladesh on 29 September 

UN hopes Yunus-led interim government will follow rule of law, justice
Bangladesh

UN hopes Yunus-led interim government will follow rule of law, justice

OHCHR Asia-Pacific region chief Rory Mungoven meets Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the ministry on Tuesday 27 August). Photo: PID
Bangladesh

Home ministry to extend full cooperation to UN fact finding team

Syeda Rizwana Hasan meets a delegation led by Rory Mungoven, head of the Asia-Pacific Division of the United Nations Human Rights Organization, at her office in the Bangladesh Secretariat on 27 Aug. Photo: UNB
Environment

Env adviser, UN discuss advancing human rights in Bangladesh

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin/File Photo
World+Biz

UN rights chief calls for repeal of Afghan law turning women into 'shadows'

Palestinians inspect a destroyed mosque, following an Israeli strike, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 27, 2024. File Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Hamas-Israel war

UN aid operations in Gaza halted after Israel evacuation orders

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights led by its Asia-Pacific Region Chief Rory Mungoven paid a joint courtesy call on Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid and Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain at Secretariat on 25 August 2024. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

Nahid seeks UN assistance for probe into human rights violations in student-people movement

Chief of the Asia-Pacific Region with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Rory Mungoven addresses media on 22 August 2024. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Visit this week not an investigation, but an exploration: UN team

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

UN team in Dhaka to probe rights violations during recent violence

Antonio Guterres (L) and Dr Muhammad Yunus. Photos: Collected
Bangladesh

Guterres to Dr Yunus: UN fully supports interim govt's efforts towards 'inclusive, prosperous democracy'

Logo of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: OHCHR
Bangladesh

650 killed during student movement in Bangladesh: UN

‘UN stand against any racially based attacks’: Farhan Haq on attacks on minorities in Bangladesh
Bangladesh

‘UN stand against any racially based attacks’: Farhan Haq on attacks on minorities in Bangladesh

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. File Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

There must be no further violence or reprisals in Bangladesh: UN Human Rights Chief