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UN experts on human rights, water in city

December 04, 2009 00:00:00


UN independent expert on human rights, water and sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque and another expert on human rights and extreme poverty Magdalena Sepúlveda arrived in the city Thursday on a week's visit, reports UNB.
The arrival of the two UN experts was announced by Human Rights Forum on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Bangladesh at a press conference Thursday.
Human rights activist Sayeed Ahmed read out a written statement at the press conference while former adviser of caretaker government Adv Sultana Kamal, chief executive of Nagorik Udyog Zakir Hossain and president of Bangladesh Dalit & Excluded Rights Movement Bothanki Soloman also spoke on the occasion.

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