Odhikar, in association with the May18 Memorial Foundation of South Korea organised the Third Human Rights Defenders Conference to review the human rights situation in the
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3rd Annual Human Rights Defenders Conference : press release 2011
The 3rd Annual Human Rights Defender’s Conference inaugurated today at CARITAS Development Institute, Dhaka. The conference organised by the Odhikar, a human rights organisation working in Bangladesh with the assistance of The May 18 Memorial Foundation, Korea. In this conference of human rights defender organisers of Bangladesh
International Women’s Day and violence against women in Bangladesh
8 March is International Women’s day. Though a hundred years have passed since the declaration of women’s day and 39 years have passed since the independence of Bangladesh, the condition of women in Bangladesh leaves much space for improvement. Violence against women is prevalent in this country especially against women who come from the impoverished […]
Human rights monitoring report : February 2011
The February 2011 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: the Prime Minister’s statement and following extra-judicial killings the whereabouts of a shopkeeper, picked up by RAB, remain unknown the demand for withdrawal of cases against people who demonstrated at Arial Beel arrests under Anti […]
Teenage girl Felani killed by the BSF firing at Anantapur border under Kurigram district
South Ramkhana is a village at the Bangladesh border under Naggeshwari Upazila of the Bangladesh-India border district of Kurigram. Most of the occupants of this impoverished village are either farmers or make a living by agriculture. Due to poverty and a very poor and difficult communication system, most children of this locality cannot go to […]
Odhikar’s concern about Anti-Terrorism Act 2009
February 23, 2011 24 February 2011 marks the second anniversary of the enactment of Anti-terrorism Act. Odhikar would like to express and reiterate its grave concern on the Act that was passed in the very first session of the current Parliament on February 24, 2009. Earlier, on February 19, 2009, the Government, at a Cabinet […]
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