A joint statement by AFAD and Odhikar on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2021 Violence and discrimination against women are widespread in Bangladesh. Moreover, due to rampant human rights violations such as enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody due to torture, majority of women from victim families face trauma, insecurity and financial difficulties. […]
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Death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail while detained under the Digital Security Act
27 February 2021 Statement of Odhikar Odhikar is deeply concerned over the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed on 25 February 2021, who was detained in Kashimpur Central Jail under the repressive Digital Security Act, 2018. Police also attacked anti-government student organisations in Dhaka when they brought out a rally in protest of his death and […]
নিবর্তনমূলক ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইনে কারাগারে আটক লেখক মুশতাক আহমেদের মৃত্যু
২৭ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২১ অধিকার এর বিবৃতি গত ২৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২১ কাশিমপুর কেন্দ্রীয় কারাগারে নিবর্তনমূলক ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইনে আটক লেখক মুশতাক আহমেদের মৃত্যুতে অধিকার গভীর উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করছে। তাঁর মৃত্যুর প্রতিবাদে এবং ডিজিটাল নিরাপত্তা আইন বাতিলের দাবিতে সরকারবিরোধী ছাত্রসংগঠনগুলো ঢাকায় প্রতিবাদ সমাবেশ ও মিছিল করলে পুলিশ তাদের ওপরও হামলা চালায়। এতে অনেকে আহত ও গ্রেফতার হন […]
Statement on International Human Rights Day 2020
Odhikar releases a statement on the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2020, calling for the protection of rights of all human beings without any form of discrimination. The people of Bangladesh have been facing the COVID-19 pandemic together with the state sponsored endemic violations of human rights. Freedom of peaceful assembly and association continue […]
BANGLADESH: Violence against women on the rise amid COVID-19 and rampant impunity
A Joint Statement by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, Asian Human Rights Commission, International Federation for Human Rights and Odhikar on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2020 BANGLADESH: Violence against women on the rise amid COVID-19 and rampant impunity Dhaka/Manila/Hong Kong/Paris, 24 November 2020: November 25 […]
Bangladesh: End Enforced Disappearances Hold Law Enforcement Accountable
*Joint Statement by 12 human rights groups ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 2020 (Dhaka, August 28, 2020) – Bangladesh security forces and law-enforcement agencies continuously commit enforced disappearances with impunity, targeting journalists, activists, and government critics, 12 human rights groups said today ahead of the International Day of the […]
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