এশিয়ান ফেডারেশন এগেইনস্ট ইনভল্যান্টারি ডিসএপিয়ারেন্সেস (আফাদ) ‘Applying The Psychosocial Minimum Standards On Enforced Disappearances’ ম্যানুয়ালটি ২০১৫ সালে ইংরেজিতে প্রথম প্রকাশ করে। ২০২০ সালে অধিকার এই পুস্তিকাটি বাংলায় অনুবাদ করে। গুমের শিকার পরিবারগুলোকে মনোসামাজিক (সাইকোসোশ্যাল) সহায়তা দেবার উদ্দেশ্যই এই ম্যানুয়ালটি তৈরি করা হয়েছে। এই ম্যানুয়ালটি নির্দেশিকা হিসেবে তাঁদের সত্যসন্ধান, ন্যায়বিচার পাওয়া এবং সম্পূর্ণ ক্ষতিপূরণ পাওয়ার ক্ষেত্রে […]
ANFREL’s AERC Launches Book on “Electoral Challenges in Asia Today”
ANFREL through its Asian Electoral Resource Center (AERC) introduces its latest publication “Electoral Challenges in Asia Today.” The book is a compilation of researches conducted by electoral experts from across 13 countries in Asia. It presents what are deemed to be the most pressing challenges to advancing electoral democracy in Asia over the last decade. […]
PASLET – Participation in Action, Sharing, Learning and Evolving Together
PASLET – Participation in Action, Sharing, Learning and Evolving Together (2014) was produced during a project supported by the Youth in Action programme of the European Union. The publication shares good practices on youth participation in Finland, Bangladesh, Nepal and Slovenia. It has been produced in cooperation with the Bangladeshi human rights organisation Odhikar and […]
The battle continues : aspects of violence against women in Bangladesh
From July 2011 to June 2012, Odhikar carried out a project to study the situation of some common instances of violence against women in four areas of Bangladesh. The acts of violence were dowry-related violence, acid violence and rape. The study areas were Satkhira, Sirajganj, Tangail and Munshiganj. The study was supported by the Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights, […]
“Trigger happy” : excessive use of force by Indian troops at the Bangladesh border
This report documents a pattern of grave abuses by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) against both Bangladeshi and Indian nationals in the border area along India’s 2,000 kilometer long international fontier with Bangladesh in West Bengal state. The abuses include cases of indiscriminate killing and torture. Most of the abuses documented in this report are […]
Bangladesh : criminal justice through the prism of capital punishment and the fight against terrorism
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) fact-finding mission’s mandate was to enquire on the death penalty and the administration of criminal justice in Bangladesh, with a focus on people convicted for so-called terrorist offences. The principal objective was to assess the respect of the fair trial guarantees, in particular the prohibition of torture, in capital cases. The mission […]
Themes
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)