Jailed former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has approached renowned international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to defend him.

THE right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is not a new concept.

IN this present era human trafficking, a worst form of human degradation extends its malevolent drives more than ever to confine the human souls and their physical movement.

THE Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB), a network of 19 rights bodies, has expressed grave concern over the recent police proposal to amend the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013, terming the recommendations as unconstitutional and in violation of fundamental human rights.

The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians including children.

Zaur Dadayev, one of two suspects charged with the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, confessed under duress, says a member of Russia's Human Rights Council

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein says he was deeply concerned at “measures that restrict freedom of expression and democratic space” in numerous countries including Bangladesh.

ORGANISED by Liberation War Museum (LWM), a three-day international conference on 'Bangladesh Genocide and Justice' has been held at CIRDAP, Dhaka. From February 27 till March 01, 2015, the conference was attended by scholars, teachers, researchers, human rights activists, government officials, lawyers, judges, university students and many others from home and abroad. Honorable Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Mr. Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali MP inaugurated the conference.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance calls for UN supervised international investigation into what it said extra-judicial killings, human rights violations and firebomb attacks in the country.

The frequency of violation of civil and political rights to people of the ethnic minority in Bangladesh intensified further during last year, a published report says

THE latest annual report by the London-based human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), echoes the concerns raised by our own human rights organisations regarding enforced disappearances, impunity of law enforcement agencies, circumscribing the freedom of journalists and human rights defenders and violence against women.

WHEN we talk about right to food, at first instance, people gets confined to the idea of providing food assistance to the poor as a sign of kindness to the poor where approach appears as faulty. Providing food assistance to the poor by the state is not a charity work, it is part of right of the poor people to get direct food considering that they are in the situation of not being able to secure their food by themselves.

As world attention moves from East-West problems to North-South issues, the Commonwealth is examining the role it can play in the dramatic worldwide movement towards democracy and individual freedom.