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Odhikar strongly condemns the killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad

9 October 2019 Abrar Fahad (picture from Facebook) In the night of 6 October 2019, Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was murdered by being beaten to death, by a group of Awami League backed Chhatra League activists, led by University unit […]

October 9, 2019 | Read full story | Comments are closed

বুয়েটের শিক্ষার্থী আবরার ফাহাদকে হত্যার ঘটনায় অধিকার এর তীব্র প্রতিবাদ

৯ নভেম্বর ২০১৯ আবরার ফাহাদ (ফেসবুক থেকে সংগৃহীত ছবি) বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (বুয়েট) ইলেকট্রিক্যাল ও ইলেকট্রনিক ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিং বিভাগের ২য় বর্ষের শিক্ষার্থী আবরার ফাহাদ কাশ্মীরের জনগণের সংগ্রামের প্রতি সমর্থন জানানোয় এবং সম্প্রতি ভারত-বাংলাদেশ চুক্তির মাধ্যমে বাংলাদেশের স্বার্থহানী হওয়ার প্রতিবাদে ফেসবুকে পোস্ট দেয়ার কারণে গত ৬ অক্টোবর রাতে আওয়ামী লীগ সমর্থিত ছাত্রলীগের বুয়েট শাখার সাধারণ […]

October 9, 2019 | Read full story | Comments are closed

AFAD Commemorates the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

30th August 2019 Manila: Today, on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) brings attention to the global issue of enforced disappearances that violates the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and security of the disappeared individual and the family.  Enforced disappearance is not […]

August 30, 2019 | Read full story | Comments are closed

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances- Joint Statement by Odhikar and AFAD

Dhaka/Manila, 30 August 2019: The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is observed globally on 30 August every year and this gives us the opportunity to remember the numbers of people who were disappeared due to armed conflict, war, occupation, xenophobia, authoritarianism and political turmoil; and to show solidarity with the victim-families. While […]

August 30, 2019 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Odhikar rejects the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Odhikar’s statement in response to MoFA statement (full text in English, PDF)

January 2, 2019 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Protest against fictitious, baseless and ill-motivated reports against Odhikar published in certain media

Odhikar’s satement on false and ill-motivated reports against it  (full text in English, PDF)

November 20, 2018 | Read full story | Comments are closed