Dhaka, Sept. 16 -- A panel of rights activists, academics and diplomats on Wednesday called for addressing economic, cultural and human rights issues affecting all nations on earth to regain dwindling global public confidence in the United Nations system.

The panelists at an international conference lamented that the issues, such as migration-- more pertinent to countries like Bangladesh-- remain neglected at the UN forum while the world is increasingly being dominated by powerful ultranationalist forces.

They emphasised a paradigm shift for the global body, also in the context of Covid-19 pandemic, as they came up with diverse, critical views at the international webinar on "The UN in Times of People's Needs: Rethinking Multilateralism...