Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, has described the findings of the UN Human Rights Office's report on human rights violations during the July-August protests in Bangladesh as "heartbreaking and alarming".

In a statement on Thursday, Rana Flowers, UNICEF's representative in Bangladesh, said: "Let us seize this moment for meaningful reform and ensure that no child, family, and community in Bangladesh has to go through such tragedies again."

The UN Human Rights Office published its fact-finding report on Wednesday, detailing large-scale human rights violations committed between Jul 1 and Aug 15, 2024, amid protests initially focused on quota reforms but later evolving into a movement against the government....