The demonstrations erupted two weeks in the past, and college students have been clashing with their pro-government counterparts and the police within the capital, Dhaka, and different cities.
The Bangladeshi Authorities closed all private and non-private universities after the protests turned lethal on Tuesday, with six folks killed and scores injured, in line with media reviews.
Writing on social media, UN rights chief Volker Türk stated that every one acts of violence and use of pressure, particularly ensuing within the lack of life, have to be investigated and perpetrators held to account.
“Freedom of expression and peaceable meeting are basic human rights,” he added.
The scholars are protesting quotas which reserve a 3rd of presidency jobs to the youngsters of veterans of the 1971 struggle of independence from Pakistan.
The quotas had been abolished in 2018 however reinstated earlier this month.
South Sudan: Neighborhood-based militias proceed assaults on civilians
Widespread assaults in opposition to civilians – pushed primarily by sub-national armed violence involving community-based militias and civil protection teams — are persevering with in South Sudan, the UN Mission within the nation, UNMISS, said on Wednesday in its newest quarterly report.
Between January and March, UNMISS documented 240 incidents of violence impacting 913 civilians nationwide.
Of this quantity, 468 had been killed, 328 injured and 70 kidnapped, with 47 subjected to battle associated sexual violence. This represents a 24 p.c rise in comparison with the 194 violent incidents reported throughout the identical interval in 2023.
The Mission stated inter and intra-communal violence by community-based militias and/or civil protection teams stays the first supply of sub-national violence, accounting for 87 p.c of victims, or 796 individuals.
On a optimistic be aware, the report additionally confirmed a 30 per cent lower within the variety of documented abductions in comparison with the fourth quarter of 2023 (from 100 to 70). Equally, incidents of conflict-related sexual violence decreased by 25 per cent, of from 63 to 47.
The Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom, referred to as for collective motion by authorities and communities to resolve longstanding grievances peacefully, significantly as South Sudan approaches its first elections, scheduled for December.
“Constructing a tradition of human rights is key to reaching sustainable safety, peace, and democracy,” he stated.
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Photo voltaic panels assist to energy the a rural hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
New UNDP report highlights local weather motion alternatives in Africa
Additionally on Wednesday, the UN Improvement Programme (UNDP) launched the third version of its Africa Funding Report Local weather Alternatives on the Africa Influence Summit 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The report outlines non-public sector alternatives with financial, social and environmental potential for sustainable growth in Africa, and presents knowledge and tendencies on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) investments throughout the continent.
“Via the UNDP Africa Investment Insights Report, we flip Africa’s local weather challenges into funding alternatives for the non-public sector, as per the continent’s personal ambition captured in nationwide NDCs,” said Maxwell Gomera, Director of the UNDP Africa Sustainable Finance Hub.
Non-public sector alternative
This third version of the report highlights climate-related funding alternatives utilizing insights from 16 African SDGs Investor Maps. Partnering with UNDP’s Local weather Promise, it exhibits how the non-public sector can help African international locations’ Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs) beneath the Paris Agreement.
The report emphasises that local weather motion presents important alternatives for the non-public sector, with over half of the recognized SDGs funding alternatives in Africa contributing to local weather motion and NDCs.
Mr. Romera stated UNDP is asking on buyers to take part in “realising alternatives for optimistic local weather motion.”
