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Written statement by Odhikar submitted at the 37th session of the UN HRC – BANGLADESH: Freedoms of Opinion, Expression and Peaceful Assembly and Association Are Systematically Violated

Rights to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are essential elements of democracy. Regrettably such rights are being systematically violated by the incumbent government. The government imposed various repressive laws and policies targeted at dissenters and is harassing the opposition political parties’ activists and people belonging to alternative […]

February 19, 2018 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Written statement by Odhikar submitted at the 37th session of the UN HRC – BANGLADESH: Failing to Fulfil its Obligations under the UN Convention against Torture

Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment perpetrated by the law enforcement agencies are widespread in Bangladesh. Apart from leaders-activists of the opposition political parties, people from all walks of life were tortured and became victims of inhuman or degrading treatment. The actual number of incidents of torture are probably much more than what […]

February 15, 2018 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Written statement by ODHIKAR submitted at the 37th session of the UN HRC- BANGLADESH: Human Rights Council should take initiative to make the Bangladesh Government accountable for enforced disappearances and accede to the Convention on Enforced Disappearance

The commission of enforced disappearances has dramatically increased in Bangladesh in recent years and government authorities have been unwillingness to investigate such cases. The families of the disappeared and witnesses have repeatedly claimed that members of law enforcement agencies, or men claiming to be from such agencies, arrested and took away the victims and the […]

February 15, 2018 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Joint Written Statement for the 34th session of the UN HRC on Bangladesh: An Increasingly Repressive Environment for Dissenting Voices

Since the controversial Parliamentary Election in January 2014 the human rights situation in Bangladesh has significantly worsened. Allegations of violations including torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings perpetrated by security forces against dissenting voices, including human rights defenders and political opponents have become widespread. Perpetrators enjoy almost complete impunity despite repeated demands to bring responsible […]

February 13, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Written Statement on Myanmar for the 34th session of the UN HRC: Stop Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingyas in Myanmar

Odhikar brings the situation of the Rohingya Muslim community of Myanmar’s Rakhine state to the notice of the United Nations Human Rights Council to seek immediate effective intervention from the international human rights community to protect the victims from ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya is a Muslim minority community in Myanmar living mostly in the country’s western Rakhine […]

February 13, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed