by Ahmadul Hassan in Prothom Alo, Oct 1, 2023The police recovered Tk 1.47 million and 500 grams of heroin in an anti-narcotics drive at the residence of drug peddler Saddam in the Geneva camp in Mohammadpur on 12 April. In the absence of Saddam, his sibling Akash and father Akbar were taken to the police station and were accused in a case. But the police mentioned a tiny amount – only Tk 5,000 – of…
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By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, June 19, 2023 at 9:05 PMThe participants of the “1st Meeting – 53rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council,” in Geneva expressed concerns about the human rights situation in Afghanistan. The UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur for Afghan human rights, Richard Bennett, told the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that the Afghan “de facto authorities must be required to comply with the international human rights…
By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, March 17,2023 at 9:06 AMThe legal advisor of the Afghanistan Mission in Geneva, Mohibullah Tayib, accused the Islamic Emirate of interfering with aid deliveries. He made the remarks at a UN meeting in Geneva. “The Taliban have also forced NGOs to register and provide information which has led to the interference with the equitable delivery of humanitarian aid,” he said. He also expressed concerns over the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.…
Report in The Island,10 Oct 2022The UK-headquartered Global Tamil Forum (GTF) said that Sri Lanka’s response to the latest Geneva resolution presented by Foreign Minister Ali Sabry – who insisted on an exclusive domestic mechanism to address wartime atrocities despite the country’s inability to take a single meaningful initiative for 13 years – is thoroughly disappointing. Rejecting any external involvement in investigating the economic crimes – despite overwhelming evidence that such crimes partly contributed to…