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More than 300,000 refugees return to Syria since Assad’s fall: UN
Mar 8, 2025The United Nations reported Friday that since president Bashar al-Assad was toppled, more than 300,000 refugees have returned to Syria. A further 900,000 internally displaced persons in Syria have also returned home since the end of... -
WFP Seeks Emergency Funds to Prevent Ration Cuts for Over 1 Million Rohingya
Mar 8, 2025Food aid for more than a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is in danger due to a significant funding shortage for the UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) emergency response efforts in Bangladesh. A critical funding shortfall... -
UN requests $2.5 billion for DRC humanitarian plan
Feb 28, 2025These include climate disasters linked to global warming, epidemics, and a long-running conflict in the east that has flared in recent weeks. The M23 armed group, which is backed by Rwanda, has seized swaths of territory... -
Research value demands promotion of UNESCO publications: Mahbub Morshed
Feb 28, 2025Mahbub Morshed, the managing director and chief editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), has emphasized the importance of publicizing UNESCO’s outstanding publications. UNESCO publications have a significant impact on research and education. Therefore, he argued, it’s... -
UN to mobilise int’l community to support Bangladesh on Rohingya issue: Guterres
Feb 26, 2025United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that the UN would continue to mobilise the international community to support Bangladesh as a host to the forcibly displaced Rohingyas. In a letter to Chief Adviser... -
Intelligence agencies intimidated journalists during July uprising in Bangladesh: UN
Feb 24, 2025According to a new United Nations (UN) rights office study, journalists were coerced into not covering the July rebellion by Bangladesh’s intelligence services, such as DGFI and NSI operatives. It also showed how, during the student-led... -
UN needs to adapt in face of US funding cuts: humanitarian chief
Feb 21, 2025In the face of a funding freeze by the United States, the system’s biggest donor, the UN humanitarian chief stated on Thursday that United Nations aid organizations must change and become more effective. US President Donald... -
Foreign ministry thanks UN fact-finding team for comprehensive report on human rights violations
Feb 14, 2025Today, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry thanked the UN Human Rights Office’s Fact-Finding Team for their thorough work in compiling the in-depth report on human rights abuses during the July–August 2024 student-led revolt. “We thank the Fact-Finding Team... -
UN condemns death of employee held by Yemen’s Huthi rebels
Feb 13, 2025UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday condemned the death of a World Food Programme (WFP) staff member detained by Huthi rebels in Yemen, calling for an investigation into the “deplorable tragedy”. The employee was identified by... -
UN rights office suggests restructuring Bangladesh’s security sector, RAB’s disbanding
Feb 12, 2025UN rights organ OHCHR has suggested restructuring of Bangladesh’s security and policing systems and as part of the process disband the so-called elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as it released its fact finding report on...
