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WHO, Japan to ensure Rohingya healthcare

Japan has allocated $3.2 million (JPY 500 million) to support the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts in reducing illness and preventable deaths among Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.

The agreement was formalised through an exchange of notes between Japan’s Ambassador to Bangladesh, Saida Shinichi, and WHO’s Representative in Bangladesh, Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed.

Critical UN report must spur accountability, justice

Responding to the UN Fact-Finding report published yesterday which finds reasonable grounds to believe Bangladesh’s former Government and security apparatus systematically engaged in a range of serious human rights violations raising concerns as to crimes against humanity, Smriti Singh, regional director for South Asia at Amnesty International, said: “This 105-page UN report lays bare the scale and severity of the human rights violations committed by the regime led by the ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ...

UN probe reveals Hasina, top leaders led brutal repression

The UN Human Rights Office has released a report detailing severe human rights violations committed during last year’s student-led protests in Bangladesh, which resulted in the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government. According to the report, the security and intelligence forces, along with Awami League-affiliated violent elements, carried out systematic and widespread repression, leading to as many as 1,400 deaths in just 46 days. Thousands were injured, with most of the casualties attributed to security forces’ gunfire. Among those killed, approximately 12–13 per cent were children. Additionally, Bangladesh Police reported 44 officer deaths.

Bangladesh rewrites its past

At Dhaka University, the cradle of a student uprising that overthrew Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August, a mural featuring her late father, the independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been defaced. Red paint splatters the face of the man many Bangladeshis revere as a founder of the nation. Under his visage, which is depicted addressing an adoring crowd, someone has scrawled the words: “Icon of fascism”. Barely half a year after a revolution that overthrew Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is rewriting Bangladesh’s official history, downplaying Sheikh Mujib’s role in its 1971 struggle for independence and challenging the cult of personality that was built around him. The Indian professional’s must-read...

Instrument of accession to int’l convention on enforced disappearances signed

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus today signed the Instrument of Accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. He signed the instrument at the weekly meeting of the council of advisers amid clapping by the advisers. "It is a historic occasion," the chief adviser's press wing quoted Prof Yunus as saying. The instrument was signed a day before the International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The i...

Sarsina Peer Saheeb distributes relief goods among flood victims

Peer Saheeb Alhaj Maulana Shah Abu Nashar Nesharuddin Ahmad Hussain of Sarsina distributed relief goods among the flood victims of Feni, Cumilla and Noakhali districts on Thursday. He visited and monitored the relief activities of Rahi Madrasa of Chanua Union under Sadar Upazila of Feni District at the time of distributing food stuffs among the flood victims. During the visit, Pir Saheeb offered a special prayer for the peace of the nation and the Muslim Ummah including the victims of ...
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