UN help can ensure citizens' fundamental rights: MM Akash

Ensuring all fundamental rights as well as minimum security of a citizen is completely aligned with the SDG goal, for which the present Bangladesh government can take more help from the United Nations (UN), an eminent economist told a symposium on Saturday.
The fundamental social and economic rights of all citizens are written in the constitution of Bangladesh, Dr Mahabubul Mokaddem Akash said.
This is in complete harmony with the SDG goals of the UN and all the UN agencies are bound to help everybody to achieve them universally, he added.
"So the current government of Bangladesh may now come ahead to realise these primary socio-economic-rights of everybody in our country and take the help of the UN to realise them," said Mr Akash.
He was addressing the symposium on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) organised by the United Nations Association of Bangladesh (UNAB) at a city hotel on Saturday evening.
Mr Akash, professor of economics at Dhaka University, delivered the keynote address.
Md. Morshedur Rahman Talukder, director (UN), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was present as special guest while eminent educationist Professor Monsur Musa, vice-president, UNAB, presided over the symposium UNAB Secretary General Syed Mohammad Shahed moderated the event.
In the keynote, Mr Akash highlighted various aspects of the UN since its inception in 1945.
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