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STORY: OHCHR / BANGLADESH NEW MISSION
TRT: 01:13
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JULY 2025, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
18 JULY 2025, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The UN Human Rights Office and the Government of Bangladesh this week signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to open a mission in the country to support the promotion and protection of human rights.”
4. Wide shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Since last August, as you know, our office’s engagement with Bangladesh has significantly increased. We have been working with various stakeholders in advancing human rights reforms and conducting a comprehensive fact-finding inquiry into deadly repression of mass protests.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The signing of this memorandum sends an important message of the country’s commitment to human rights as a cornerstone of the transition. It will enable our Office to better support implementation of the recommendations made in our fact-finding report, as well as to engage directly on the ground with the Government, civil society and others with our expertise and assistance on the fundamental reforms Bangladesh is undertaking going forward.”
8. Wide shot, briefing room
The Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), today (18 Jul) the Office’s opening of a new mission in Bangladesh “to support the promotion and protection of human rights” in the country.
Shamdasani told the bi-weekly UN press briefing in Geneva that OHCHR and the Government of Bangladesh this week signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding.
The memorandum was signed by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and Asad Alam Siam, Foreign Secretary, on behalf of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
Shamdasani said, “since last August, as you know, our office’s engagement with Bangladesh has significantly increased. We have been working with various stakeholders in advancing human rights reforms and conducting a comprehensive fact-finding inquiry into deadly repression of mass protests.”
She said, “the signing of this memorandum sends an important message of the country’s commitment to human rights as a cornerstone of the transition. It will enable our Office to better support implementation of the recommendations made in our fact-finding report, as well as to engage directly on the ground with the Government, civil society and others with our expertise and assistance on the fundamental reforms Bangladesh is undertaking going forward.”
The spokesperson said the new mission would offer training and technical assistance to the authorities across a range of areas, towards meeting the country’s national and international human rights commitments, as well as undertake capacity-building for government institutions and civil society actors.
