Having emerged from years of authoritarian rule, Bangladesh stands at a crossroads at present.

The UN will not share evidence from its investigation with Bangladesh unless trials of perpetrators of the brutal response to the July uprising meet international standards, says a top official at the UN Human Rights Office.

A fact-finding report by the United Nations has shed light on cases of sexual violence targeting both protesters and the supporters of the Awami League during the July mass uprising in Bangladesh

OHCHR says minority communities, indigenous people also faced human rights abuses from early August last year

OHCHR says move can undermine the country’s return to genuine multiparty democracy

A host of ill-defined laws is used in Myanmar to exert control over independent journalism across the country, including in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states, a UN human rights report on freedom of expression in the country finds.

An independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar formed by the UN Human Rights Council outlines in its report four key common characteristics of the operations of the armed forces of Myanmar in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States.

Only a few weeks after it was revealed that the UN had suppressed a report highly critical of the conditions in Rakhine State, we find out that a UN World Food Programme report on hunger and starvation of the Rohingyas had also been shelved.