UN fact-finding team comes in Dhaka next week 

The UN Human Rights Office will send a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh next week to look into human rights violations during the quota reform movement.

The UN Human Rights Office issued a statement in this regard on Friday (August 30).

According to the statement, a team visited Bangladesh from August 22-29 when they met different stakeholders including advisers in the interim government.

During its visit, the UN team discussed the modalities for an investigation into human rights violations and abuses in the context of the recent violence and unrest, as requested by the interim government.

It also discussed wider areas, including civic space, the need for truth, justice, healing, reparation and reconciliation, and other human rights approaches to the reform process, in which the UN Human Rights Office could provide sustained support.

They met with the advisers in the interim government, the chief justice, senior officers of the police and armed forces, lawyers, journalists, human rights defenders, and representatives of political parties and minority communities.

“The office will send a fact-finding team to Bangladesh, with a view to reporting on violations and abuses perpetrated during the protests, analyzing root causes, and making recommendations to advance justice and accountability and for longer-term reforms," UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said. 

Earlier, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk received an official invitation from Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus to conduct an impartial and independent fact-finding mission into human rights violations committed from July 1 to August 15.