Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued a letter to Ms. Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to express their concern regarding cancellation of the project on “Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme in Bangladesh” relating to promotion of optional protocol to the convention against torture led by the […]
Open Letter to Ms. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), wishes to express its deepest concern about the recent decision of the Bangladeshi authorities to cancel a human rights project led by Odhikar. Open letter Hasina-Urgent appeal-2009 (full […]
Bangladesh : Government cancels human rights defender organisation’s project
Urgent Appeal published by Frontline in support of Odhikar. Odhikar has received a letter on 31 August 2009 from the NGO Affairs Bureau informing the organisation that the Ministry of Home Affairs had objected to one of its projects entitled “Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme in Bangladesh,” and that it was thereby cancelled. […]
Odhikar statement on the reference to the Supreme Court regarding BDR mutiny case
August 24, 2009 Odhikar welcomes the decision of the Government to send the BDR mutiny matter to the Supreme Court to seek advice under Article 106 of the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh regarding the law under which the trial should take place signifying the sovereign jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitution and recognising the […]
Statement on election violence
Dates Covered: 14-24 December 2008
17 persons were killed by law enforcers in February 2007
According to the documentation of Odhikar, on human rights violations which occurred during 01 to 28 February 2007, as many as 17 persons were killed by the law enforcement agencies. Of them, 9 were killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), 5 by police, 1 by the army, 1 by joint forces and 1 by […]
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Members/Partners
- Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN)
- Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
- Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL)
- CIVICUS
- HURIDOCS
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- World Organization against Torture (OMCT)