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Bangladesh has been elected unanimously to serve as a Vice President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), the prime intergovernmental body of the UN responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights...

World trade faces an uncertain outlook in 2025 because of the threat of trade wars, after global commerce hit a new peak this year, the UN said on Thursday. The UN trade and development agency UNCTAD...

The United Nations warned Tuesday that already unprecedented levels of forced displacement are set to worsen in 2025 as conflicts and disasters push ever more people to flee their homes. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, is...

In view of the suffering of millions of people who have been displaced by conflict, the UN humanitarian head has appealed for swift international action to solve Sudan’s worsening situation. During a nine-day trip to Sudan...

Bangladesh has reaffirmed in the United Nations (UN) that every Bangladeshi, regardless of religious identity, has the right to practice respective religion or express views freely. “Ensuring safety and security of every citizen, including from the...

Today, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Baharul Alam received a courtesy call at police headquarters from a delegation of the UN Human Rights High Commission. The two-member delegation was led by Francesca Marotta, a senior officer...

The UN’s migration agency said Monday that over 40,000 people left their homes in Port-au-Prince in only ten days this month as gang violence erupted in the Haitian capital. Between November 11 and 20, 40,965 people...

In order to prevent Syria from becoming entangled in a regional conflict, the UN special envoy for Syria stated on Sunday that it was “extremely critical” that the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon stop. Ahead of...

In a fiercely contested election held on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York, Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the UN, was chosen to serve on the esteemed International Civil Service Commission (ICSC)....

Turkey’s foreign ministry announced on Sunday that it has sent a letter to the UN, signed by two organisations and fifty-two nations, requesting that arms sales to Israel be stopped. “We have written a joint letter...