Annual Human Rights Report | 2010
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"Trigger Happy”

Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border

 

   

 Annual Human Rights Report | 2009
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 Publication      | 2008       LABOUR RIGHTS

In Readymade Garments Industry in Bangladesh

 Annual Human Rights Report | 2008
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 Annual Human Rights Report | 2007
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

 

 

Human Rights Defenders Conference

 Milestone Judgements
 

The character at right represents the Government telling human rights organisation 'Odhikar' (on left) to lie down in a grave. Behind that is a grave marked "Deceased: Human rights. Died in 2009"                             

                                                                   [Source: Amaerdesh ,21 February 2010]


In 1994, a group of human rights activists initiated discussions and underscored the need to uphold the civil and political rights of the people of Bangladesh along with social, cultural and economic rights. Eventually, a decision was arrived at to form an organisation in order to advance such rights.

 

 Human Rights Report: April 2012

 

 

 [English]  [Bangla] 

Fact Finding Report

Mohammad Habibur Rahman Habu of Shibganj Upozilla, Chapainababganj was allegedly tortured by Indian Border Security Force (BSF)
 

[English] [Bangla]

Fact Finding Report

Two persons were disappeared after being arrested at Savar allegedly by RAB and DB police


 

[English] [Bangla]

Fact Finding Report

Attacks on a procession of the Progotishil Chattra Jote of Jagannath University, Dhaka allegedly by Chattra League activists

[English] [Bangla]

Fact Finding Report

Shah Alif Prince was tortured in an unknown location for 44 days

[English] [Bangla]

 

     

  Nationwide strike over opposition politician's disappearance in Bangladesh [see the link]

 

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMO6qaquiS0

 

Violence in Bangladesh Politics and its impact on Human Rights

Divisional Meetings Organised by Odhikar

at Sylhet and Rajshahi Divisional Towns held on July 21, 2011 and September17, 2011

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International seminar

Minority and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

4-5 October 2011
at Kuntatalo, Helsinki

 

 

 [Read] 

 

Violence against women still exists though 100 years have passed after the declaration of International Women’s Day

 

 

 [English]  [Bangla] 

 

Advocacy Meeting on the Accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All persons from Enforced Disappearance

[Read]

 

Annual Human Rights Report  2011

 

 

 [English]  [Bangla] 

Fact Finding Report

Disappearance of Jubo Union Organiser, K M Shamim Akhtar, after being picked up by members of LEA from Purana Paltan Line in Dhaka City

On September 29, 2011 at around 8.15 in the morning K M Shamim Akhtar (36) was arrested by the members of the law enforcing agency from 6/1, Purana Palton Line, Dhaka-1000. He was the son of Khan Mobarak Hossain and Zohra Akhtar; and a resident of 12/4, Purana Paltan Line (5th floor), of Dhaka Metropolitan City. Shamim’s family alleged that his whereabouts remain unknown from the day he was picked up by the law enforcing agency.

 

 

[English] [Bangla]

Fact Finding Report

Soldier Al Masum allegedly tortured after the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny

 

Al Masum is the eldest of five children of Motahar Hossain and Razia Begum of Dohorpara village, Kotalipara Thana of Gopalgonj district. He was a soldier of the 24 Battalion of BDR. His family alleged that he was arrested in March 2009 and subsequently tortured due to the incident of BDR mutiny at Pilkhana, Dhaka. At present, Al Mamun is in the Dhaka Central Jail.

[English] [Bangla]

Odhikar’s concern about the proposed Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2011

 

Odhikar is deeply concerned to learn from the media of the proposed amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009, approved by the Cabinet meeting on December 26, 2011, which has widened the scope of the Act by approving death penalty for financing terrorist activities. The existing law stipulates that a person guilty of the offence of financing acts of terrorism shall be sentenced to not more than  20 years and not less than three years of imprisonment. According to new amendments, as reported by media, a person or entity will be considered a terrorist if they harm or help harm another country while staying in Bangladesh.

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AFAD's Concern on the Recent Rise of Cases of Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

 

 

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses its concern about the

recent rise of the cases of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. In a single district of Munshigonj, 8

bodies have been found in a period of one week. Many families are claiming that their relatives were

disappeared after members of the law enforcing agencies picked them up ... ... ...

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WOMAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AT SERIOUS RISK

 

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[Urgent Alert from Amnesty International]

 

 

 

 

Odhikar: 17 Years of Protecting Rights, Freedom and Justice 

Odhikar marks its 17th year of formation on 10 October 2011, which is also the World Day Against the Death Penalty Campaign against the death penalty is one of the many areas in which Odhikar has dedicated itself for last seventeen years. Created after the fierce movement against military dictatorship, Odhikar as a network of human rights defenders in Bangladesh, has earned its credibility by becoming a part of the peoples’ movement to constitute Bangladesh as a democratic state, ensuring liberty, rights, justice and participatory governance. Odhikar’s core commitments for human rights and rule of law; and against discrimination, exploitation and impunity remain as relevant as they were on the day of its formation. The struggle it started in 1994 continues today, even more intensely and under restrictive conditions.  [Read more]

 

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Odhikar organised a  discussion meeting at the National Press Club, Dhaka and  rallies in six districts        (Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Sylhet)  on June 26 on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.                                                                                    

[English] [Bangla]

 

 

Report on

3rd Annual Human Rights Defenders Conference

 

 

 

 

 

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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on 3rd May worldwide. This is the day to evaluate press freedom, create awareness regarding the importance of an independent media and to remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression.

To observe the World Press Freedom Day, these programmes took place in Barisal, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur Sylhet and Chittagong. Odhikar organised rallies and submitted memorandum to the Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police through its human rights defenders and local journalists. A discussion meeting was also organised at the Odhikar office.

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AFAD Statement on the State Harassment against Odhikar

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International Women's Day and Violence against Women in Bangladesh  

[English]  [Bangla]

 
 
 

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) and the Philippine Coalition for the ICC (PCICC) organized the “Regional Strategy Meeting for Asia and the Pacific” in Quezon City, The Philippines, from 11-12 April, 2011, to form strategies to move forward support for justice and accountability throughout the region. [Read more]

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