Video PERSONAL TO PUBLIC PROTECTION

Huma Khan, UN Human Rights, Bangladesh (2025)

How personal experiences of religious discrimination fuel human rights work in Bangladesh—and protection from lethal crackdowns.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/20 Septemba 2026/01:27

Producer

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Released

20 Septemba 2026

Running time

01:27

Shirika

Knowledge Commons e.V.

Leseni

CC BY 4.0

Ilichapishwa awali katika commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huma_...

Jinsi ya kunukuu

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. (2026). Huma Khan, UN Human Rights, Bangladesh (2025). CC BY 4.0.

Kuhusu leseni za maudhui

A human-rights advisor’s story of facing everyday religious discrimination in childhood, and channeling that into Bangladesh work supporting victims of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, and censorship—highlighted by a December 2023 action that helped prevent a deadly crackdown on a political rally.