Staff Reporter:
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk will present the United Nations human rights fact-finding report on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh in Geneva today (March 5).
The event will be broadcast live from Geneva on YouTube https://youtube.com/live/szaCueW3WLs at 6pm Dhaka time, according to the UN official site.
The team will discuss with member states and civil society on the findings and recommendations to pro-mote accountability, justice, and human rights reforms in Bangladesh.
The interim government of Bangladesh and civil society representatives from Bangladesh will participate in the event.
On Monday, Volker Turk hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report will support truth-telling, accountability, reparations, healing and reform in Bangladesh.
“It will be crucial to ensure due process in criminal cases and investigate revenge violence, including against minorities,” he said, while sharing a global update at the 58th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Turk said Bangladesh last year experienced a paroxysm of violence as the government of the time “bru-tally suppressed” a student movement that carried human rights as its torch.
“The country is now charting a new future,” he said, adding that their recent independent fact-finding report on the grave human rights violations that took place is an “important contribution” to this jour-ney.
