The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about continuing acts of harassment against the members of Odhikar, a human rights organisation composed of lawyers, university professors, journalists, social and development activists committed to human rights. Since March 14, 2011, members of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) reportedly resumed their activities of close monitoring on […]
Annual Human Rights Defenders Conference-2011
Odhikar, in association with the May18 Memorial Foundation of South Korea organised the Third Human Rights Defenders Conference to review the human rights situation in the
3rd Annual Human Rights Defenders Conference : press release 2011
The 3rd Annual Human Rights Defender’s Conference inaugurated today at CARITAS Development Institute, Dhaka. The conference organised by the Odhikar, a human rights organisation working in Bangladesh with the assistance of The May 18 Memorial Foundation, Korea. In this conference of human rights defender organisers of Bangladesh
Mohammad Rasel Ahmed Bhutto was allegedly shot dead by RAB 10
On March 11, 2011 at around 12.30 am, Mohammad Rasel Ahmed Bhutto, son of late Nasiruddin Ahmed Nesar, resident of 45/2 Proshanno Poddar Lane, under Kotwali Police Station, was allegedly shot dead by members of the Lalbagh Camp of the Crime Prevention Company (CPC)-3 of RAB-10. The family of Rasel informed Odhikar that Rasel, a 34-year old shopkeeper, […]
International Women’s Day and violence against women in Bangladesh
8 March is International Women’s day. Though a hundred years have passed since the declaration of women’s day and 39 years have passed since the independence of Bangladesh, the condition of women in Bangladesh leaves much space for improvement. Violence against women is prevalent in this country especially against women who come from the impoverished […]
Mohammad Rahmat Ullah, student of Dhaka University, was allegedly tortured by police
At around 12.00 pm, on March 6, 2011, Mohammad Rahmat Ullah (20), a First Year student of the Islamic Studies Department, University of Dhaka, was arrested by the police forces of Shahabag Police Station, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, after a large protest rally brought out by students of Dhaka University. The family of Rahmat Ullah alleged that after being […]
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