The November 2011 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: Mayor of Narshingdi killed in political violence Meetings and assemblies disrupted through imposition of Section 144 Agreement for the construction on India’s Tipaimukh dam must be cancelled Human rights infringement by the Border Security Force […]
International seminar : minority and indigenous peoples’ rights
Abilis Foundation, the Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights KIOS and Siemenpuu Foundation organized an international seminar Minority and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights on 4–5 October 2011 in Helsinki. This was the first time when the three NGO foundations organized a seminar as a joint effort. The seminar aimed to increase awareness of people working and interested […]
Urgent alert : human rights defender under threat
Shampa Goswami is 32 years old and a mother. She is a teacher in a primary school in Kaligonj in the district of Satkhira. Shampa participated in a human rights defenders training programme run by Odhikar in early 2011 and is now a woman human rights defender, working in Odhikar’s violence against women project. In May […]
Human Rights Defenders Conference 2011
Odhikar organised a 2-day conference of human rights defenders on 18-19 November 2012 in Dhaka. Odhikar
Tuli Rani Saha was allegedly killed over dowry demands
Tuli Rani Saha (19) was from Holudia village of Louhojong thana in Munshiganj district. On November 13, 2011, at dawn, Tuli Rani was allegedly suffocated and killed by her husband Mohammad Zahid Sheikh (25), mother-in-law Jostna Begum (50) and father-in-law Mohammad Joinal Sheikh (60). Tuli’s elder brother, Sagor Saha filed a case in Louhojong Police […]
Social movement and mass awareness stressed to combat disappearance : campaign for the accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
Odhikar in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland organised a discussion meeting on a campaign for the accession of the government to the International Convention for the Protectionof All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, at Hotel Agrabad in Chittagong on 15 October 2011; as part of Odhikar’s programme. Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of Odhikar, moderated the […]
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)