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BANGLADESH: Accountability is a must for ending torture and impunity

A Joint Statement by Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP), International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED), Maayer Daak, Odhikar, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) on the […]

June 24, 2023 | Read full story | Comments are closed
Odhikar Statement

BANGLADESH: Government must investigate all cases of enforced disappearance, stop acts of retaliation, hold perpetrators accountable, and ensure the security of victims’ families

A Joint Statement by Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP), International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Maayer Daak, Odhikar, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and World […]

May 25, 2023 | Read full story | Comments are closed

28 Years of Struggle to Establish Human Rights

Odhikar’s Statement on the Occasion of its Founding Anniversary  Dhaka, 10 October 2022: Odhikar, an organisation of human rights defenders, was established on 10 October 1994. Odhikar expresses sincere gratitude to all human rights defenders and well-wishers, at home and abroad, who stood beside the Organisation in its struggle for the establishment of human rights […]

October 10, 2022 | Read full story | Comments are closed

মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠার সংগ্রামের ২৮ বছর

প্রতিষ্ঠা বার্ষিকী উপলক্ষ্যে অধিকার এর বিবৃতি ঢাকা, ১০ অক্টোবর ২০২২: ১৯৯৪ সালের ১০ অক্টোবর মানবাধিকার কর্মীদের সংগঠন অধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয়। অধিকার ২৮ বছরব্যাপী মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠার সংগ্রামে তার পাশে থাকা দেশী ও বিদেশী সমস্ত মানবাধিকার কর্মী এবং শুভানুধ্যায়ীদের প্রতি আন্তরিক কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশ করছে। এছাড়া যাঁরা অধিকার এর সঙ্গে একাত্মতা প্রকাশ করার পাশাপাশি অধিকার এর ওপর সরকারের […]

October 10, 2022 | Read full story | Comments are closed

BANGLADESH: Set up independent mechanism to investigate all cases of enforced disappearance

A Joint Statement by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, International Federation for Human Rights, Maayer Daak, and Odhikar on the occasion of International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2022 Manila/Paris/Dhaka, 29 August 2022: On the eve of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, AFAD, FIDH, Maayer Daak, and Odhikar pay tribute […]

August 29, 2022 | Read full story | Comments are closed

BANGLADESH: End torture and ensure justice for victims.

A Joint Statement by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, International Federation for Human Rights, Maayer Daak, Odhikar and the World Organisation Against Torture on the occasion of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2022 Manila/Dhaka/Geneva/Paris, 25 June 2022: The government of Bangladesh must end torture as well as other rampant human rights […]

June 29, 2022 | Read full story | Comments are closed