Supriyo Chakravarty, freedom fighter and prominent income tax lawyer of Sylhet, husband of Advocate Sultana Kamal passed away this evening in BIRDEM hospital, Dhaka.

Rights activist and eminent citizen Sultana Kamal has filed a general diary with police seeking security, citing death threat from a militant outfit.

In today’s episode of ‘The Election Talks 2018’, Sultana Kamal, eminent rights activist and former adviser to a caretaker government, talks with The Daily Star about the upcoming election.

Sultana Kamal, lawyer and human rights activist, member of CPD board of trustees, former Executive Director of Ain o Salish Kendra, and former advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh, talks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about the upcoming national elections and the state of human rights in Bangladesh.

The government seems to have resorted to "gunfights" to solve a problem, Human rights activist Sultana Kamal alleges.

After coming down heavily on the government instruction to finish all celebration programmes of Pahela Baishakh at open places by 5:00pm, a women rights body demands withdrawal of such restriction.

A culture of impunity and delay in trials for attacks on religious and ethnic minority people were behind the rise in such incidents, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal said yesterday.

Three Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar lack basic facilities like food, health and shelter, rights activist Sultana Kamal says. There is a continued risk of human trafficking at the refugee camps, Sultana Kamal added while addressing a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).

Rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday alleged that lives of people, who live in and around the Sundarbans, are being jeopardised due

Human rights activist Sultana Kamal alleges that lives of people who live in and around the Sundarbans, are being jeopardised due to unplanned development and industrial works near the forest.

Bangladesh and India will closely work together to counter violent extremism and terrorism, visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says.

The frequency of violation of civil and political rights to people of the ethnic minority in Bangladesh intensified further during last year, a published report says