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Adilur Rahman Khan’s interviews on enforced disappearance with BBC Bangla

Odhikar’s Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan has given an interviews to BBC Bangla on enforced disappearance. Interview 01 can be heard Interview 02 can be heard

August 30, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Are you a silent observer of dowry and related violence?

by Taskin Fahmina Every year many women in Bangladesh are killed and physically abused and many commit suicide because of the the vicious dowry practice and related violence. According to the rights organisation Odhikar, at least 2,800 women were killed, 1,833 were physically abused and 204 committed suicide because of dowry-related violence between 2001 and […]

August 22, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed

RFK Center: Bangladeshi Human Rights Attorney Adilur Rahman Khan Selected for 31st Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award

Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy to Present Award in November on Capitol Hill FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (See below for versions in Spanish, French, Italian, and Bengali) (July 3, 2014 | Washington, D.C.) – Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, a leading human rights lawyer from Bangladesh, has been selected as the honoree for the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy […]

August 21, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Adilur Rahman Khan awarded Gwangju Prize for Human Rights 2014

The committee of Gwangju Prize for Human Rights 2014 announces that Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, who has devoted himself to the protection of constitutional rights, establishment of the Human Rights Act, and protection of human rights; and the Mothers of Khavaran, a body composed of the mothers of political prisoners in Iran seeking justice and […]

August 21, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Broadcasting policy: ploy to ensure conformism

-johnqdewars.blogspot.com by CR Abrar At a press conference on August 11 and at another consultation the next day, the information minister attempted to assuage growing public concern about the broadcasting policy that his ministry had framed. He insisted that it had been formulated to help the electronic media flourish on its own and reduce government […]

August 18, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development expresses grave concern over the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem

(Bangkok, 6 August 2014): The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is alarmed and gravely concerned at the significant number of deaths as well as attacks on civilian targets such as schools and hospitals in Gaza.  “It was just over five years ago that we saw, with horror, very similar attacks on civilian […]

August 6, 2014 | Read full story | Comments are closed