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PM Hasina calls for united efforts to build inclusive UN

 

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Let the United Nations be our beacon of hope, she says
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for uniting the efforts of all to build a more robust and inclusive United Nations (UN) based on mutual respect, partnership, cooperation, and solidarity.
"On this auspicious occasion, let us unite our efforts to build a more robust and inclusive United Nations (UN) based on mutual respect, partnership, cooperation, and solidarity. Let the United Nations be our beacon of hope.
"On this historic year when the country is celebrating the golden jubilee of its Independence and the Birth Centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman, Bangladesh commits to doing its part in shaping together the future of our peoples and creating a blueprint for a better future," she said.
The prime minister said this in a message issued Saturday on the occasion of the UN's 76th founding anniversary.
She added that on the auspicious occasion of the 76the anniversary of the United Nations, Bangladesh joins the international community in reiterating its unwavering commitment to the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter.
 

BHRC Human Rights Report on October- 2021
358 people died of Covid-19 in October 2021
Total 190 person killed in October 2021

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The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights Commission-IHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, sub-district and municipal branches. BHRC survey found a total of 190 deaths in the killings. According to official figures, 358 people died of the Covid-19 in all over the country. In October 2021, there were an average of 12 Covid-19 deaths and 6 deaths in killing per day. The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing may be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized. 358 persons died by corona virus in August 2021 according to official estimates.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 190 killed in October 2021
Killed due to social discrepancy 4, Killing for dowry 3, killing by family violence 26, Political Killing 12, Killed by Law enforcing authority 4, Assassination 4, Mysterious death 44, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 5.
Killed by several accidents:
Killed by road accident 87, Suicide 3
Besides victims of torture: Rape 10.

 

Bangladesh a development success story: Dan Mozena

 

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Speakers at a discussion highlighted the remarkable economic and social transformation Bangladesh has seen in the last one decade under the prudent leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading think tank based in Washington DC, hosted webinar titled "Bangladesh: A Development Success Story" on Monday.
Daniel F. Runde, Senior Vice President of CSIS; former US Ambassador to Bangladesh Ambassador Dan Mozena; former Bangladesh Foreign Secretary and Ambassador FarooqSobhan, former President of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Dr Rubana Huq and Tamara Hasan Abed, Managing Director of BRAC Enterprises, took part as discussants at the event.
Delivering the keynote speech at the discussion, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States M. Shahidul Islam said Bangladesh has successfully translated economic growth into social progress and the country has notably advanced its human and social development indicators including health, education, and demographic outcomes.
He also lauded the role of the US for being a consistent development partner in the development journey of Bangladesh.
Referring to a recent IMF report, former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador FarooqSobhan said Bangladesh will have a $500 billion-plus economy by 2025 thanks to a robust private sector, the growth of the garment industries, a thriving NGO network, and the progress made in female education and employment.
Former BGMEA President DrRubanaHuq described Bangladesh as akin to a phoenix, in that it always rises from the ashes. She also highlighted the resilience of the private sector, the thriving NGO network, and good governance as the reasons behind the country's development success.
Former US Ambassador in Bangladesh Dan Mozena shared his firsthand experience of working with the dynamic people, who are the driving force of the country's economy.
 

Bangladeshi children place climate declaration

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Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed along with high ranking officials of Bangladesh Army poses for a photo at a programme at the Artillery Centre and School at Halishahar Cantonment in Chattogram on Wednesday on the occasion of giving the national standard (national flag) to 10 units and handing over the new flag to Mujib Regiment and RowshanAra Regiment of the Bangladesh Army. The first group of admission seekers sits for the 'B' unit entry test for honours courses at Chittagong University (CU) under 2020-2021 session on the campus on Wednesday. The second group will appear in the test today. -Rabin chowdhury
Ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, UK beginning on Sunday, Bangladeshi children called on national leaders to address climate change as a child rights issue.
 

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UN calls for defending women's rights
 

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made an appeal Thursday for reversing a decline in women's rights in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, reports AFP.
"We need to fight back -- and turn the clock forward -- for every woman and girl," Guterres told the Security Council.
"Women will no longer accept reversals of their rights. They shouldn't have to -- in countries in conflict, or anywhere else," he added.
In Myanmar, Ethiopia, Yemen and other parts of the world the rights of women are being violated or eliminated altogether, Guterres said.
"In Afghanistan, girls and women are seeing a rapid reversal of the rights they achieved in recent decades, including their right to a seat in the classroom," Guterres said.
Since the hardline Islamist Taliban movement seized power in late August, it has excluded girls from returning to secondary school while ordering boys back to class.
"In Afghanistan, the UN is staying and delivering, and will continue to promote and defend the rights of women and girls in all our engagements with the Taliban de facto authorities," the UN chief said.
"We will not stop until girls can go back to school, and women can return to their jobs and participate in public life."
FawziaKoofi, a former Afghan negotiator and member of the Afghan parliament, voiced regret that the Taliban's government didn't include women. "It's not just a political and social issue but its a matter of security," said Koofi, who was in New York heading a delegation of four Afghan women, during a meeting with journalists at the United Nations.
"If there is a reliable government in Afghanistan that will accommodate diversity and inclusion of everyone, including women" it "can be a trusted partner to the world -- but the reality is that this is not" the case, she said.
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SuuKyi testifies for first time in junta court
 

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Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San SuuKyi testified for the first time in a junta court on 26 October, four months after being put on trial by the military.
She "gave her statement at the court by herself" in response to charges of incitement related to two February statements criticising the coup. The contents of her testimony "cannot be revealed" until the court has certified them, the source said, adding this was expected next week.
Media have been barred from attending SuuKyi's trial at the special court in the military-built capital Naypyidaw and the junta recently banned her legal team from speaking to the media. Before the ban, her lawyers said the Nobel laureate, 76, will not call any defence witnesses at her incitement trial and will represent herself.
 

Taiwan has no right to join UN: China


 

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China insisted on Wednesday that Taiwan had no right to join the United Nations, after the United States ratcheted up tensions with a call for the democratic island to have greater involvement in the world body.
In a statement marking 50 years since the UN General Assembly voted to seat Beijing and boot out Taipei, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said Tuesday he regretted that Taiwan had been increasingly excluded on the world stage.
'As the international community faces an unprecedented number of complex and global issues, it is critical for all stakeholders to help address these problems. This includes the 24 million people who live in Taiwan,' Blinken said.
'Taiwan's meaningful participation in the UN system is not a political issue, but a pragmatic one,' he said.
'That is why we encourage all UN member states to join us in supporting Taiwan's robust, meaningful participation throughout the UN system and in the international community.'
China considers Taiwan - where nationalist forces fled in 1949 after losing a civil war to the communists - to be a province awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.
It responded to Blinken's statement with strident, albeit familiar, statements emphasising its position that Taiwan's government had no place on the global diplomatic stage.
'Taiwan has no right to join the United Nations,' Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing, told reporters.
'The United Nations is an international governmental organisation composed of sovereign states... Taiwan is a part of China.'
The United States has long called for Taiwan's inclusion in UN activities.
But the latest statement adds to an escalation of diplomatic rhetoric and military posturing over Taiwan.
China is regularly setting records for its number of warplane flights near the island.
US president Joe Biden last week told a televised forum that the United States was ready to defend Taiwan from any Chinese invasion.
Those comments were quickly walked back by the White House amid warnings from China, continuing a strategy of ambiguity on whether it would intervene militarily if China attacked.
The United States switched recognition in 1979 to Beijing.

US denounces Israel on settlements

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The United States on Tuesday forcefully criticised Israel for the first time in years on its settlements, with president Joe Biden's administration saying it 'strongly' opposed new construction on the West Bank. The reaction comes after four years under Donald Trump in which the United States offered a green light to Israel's activity on occupied Palestinian land, with his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, touring a settlement at the end of his tenure. The State Department under Biden had repeatedly warned against settlement construction and on Tuesday sharply criticized Israel after it moved ahead. 'We are deeply concerned about the Israeli government's plan to advance thousands of settlement units' on Wednesday as well as tenders published Sunday for more than 1,300 homes, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

 

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