, Dec. 9 -- With this year's theme 'Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials', Human Rights Day 2025 will be observed in Bangladesh on Wednesday as elsewhere across the globe.

Different organisations have taken elaborate programmes to observe the day.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk described human rights as "our compass in turbulent times - guiding and steadying us through uncertainty," as he launched the 2025 Human Rights Day campaign.

This year has seen the core principles of human rights come under significant strain.

"Inequalities are rising, conflicts are raging, the climate emergency is mounting, and some are creating and trying to deepen divisions within societies and between countries. But we must not give up," Turk said in a ...