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	Annual Human Rights Report \| 2010 Read Odhikar's Annual Human Rights Report 2010
	"Trigger Happy” Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border
	Annual Human Rights Report \| 2009 Read Odhikar's Annual Human Rights Report 2009
	Publication \| 2008 LABOUR RIGHTS In Readymade Garments Industry in Bangladesh
	Annual Human Rights Report \| 2008 Read Odhikar's Annual Human Rights Report 2008
	Annual Human Rights Report \| 2007 Read Odhikar's Annual Human Rights Report 2007

UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW

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.