Bangladesh: UN Rights Review Amid Violent Crackdown

(Geneva) – The Bangladesh government should seriously respond to concerns regarding grave abuses and the crackdown on civil society raised by member states on November 13, 2023, during Bangladesh’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Human Rights Watch said today. The review took place amid a violent ongoing crackdown by Bangladesh security forces ahead of the 2024 general election. The UN Human Rights Council’s UPR requires each UN member state to undergo a peer review of its human rights records

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