Odhikar

Detention of Adilur Rahman Khan at KLIA, Malaysia

Detention of Adilur Rahman Khan at KLIA, Malaysia. Statement of Odhikar, 21 July 2017 At approximately 11:00 pm (Bangladesh time), on 19 July 2017, Adilur Rahman Khan Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Secretary of Odhikar, boarded a Malaysia Airlines flight, MH 113, to Kuala Lumpur to attend the Second General Assembly Meeting […]

July 21, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

A Joint Statement by the AHRC, AFAD and Odhikar, on the Day of International Criminal Justice

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances and Odhikar, on the Day of International Criminal Justice BANGLADESH: Affording justice to victims is not on the State’s agenda Hong Kong/Dhaka/Manila; 17 July 2017: One of the three main goals of Bangladesh’s War of Independence was ‘social justice’ coupled […]

July 17, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

ছয় মাসের মানবাধিকার প্রতিবেদন ২০১৭

বাংলাদেশ আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ আদালত সংক্রান্ত রোম সংবিধি, জাতিসংঘের নাগরিক ও রাজনৈতিক অধিকারের আন্তর্জাতিক চুক্তি, কনভেনশন এগেইনস্ট টর্চার, সিডোসহ বিভিন্ন সনদে অনুস্বাক্ষর করেছে। এরপরও নাগরিকদের ভোটের অধিকার কেড়ে নেয়াসহ ব্যাপক মানবাধিকার লঙ্ঘন, দুর্নীতি এবং অর্থনৈতিক ব্যাপক বৈষম্যের কারণে বাংলাদেশের সার্বিক পরিস্থিতি অত্যন্ত নাজুক অবস্থায় আছে। এই পরিস্থিতিতে নিরপেক্ষ, অংশগ্রহণমূলক, গ্রহণযোগ্য নির্বাচনের মাধ্যমে জবাবদিহিতামূলক সরকার প্রতিষ্ঠিত না […]

July 1, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Six-Month Human Rights Monitoring Report 2017

Bangladesh has ratified various international conventions and treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UN-CAT) and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The overall situation […]

July 1, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

A Joint Statement by AHRC and Odhikar on BANGLADESH: Institutionalization of torture within law enforcement defeats the purpose of criminalization

23 June 2017 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Odhikar on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture BANGLADESH: Institutionalization of torture within law enforcement defeats the purpose of criminalization Bangladesh’s law enforcement agencies have institutionalized torture within their day-to-day operations. Policing, maintaining law and order, and conducting crime […]

June 30, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Joint written statement to the 35th session of the UN HRC by OMCT and Odhikar, BANGLADESH: Freedoms of Expression, Assembly and Association Are Under Serious Threat

The current human rights situation in Bangladesh is catastrophic due to an absence of democracy and a lack of functional institutions, which have been aggravated by an increasingly repressive political context. The rights to freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are constantly violated while human rights defenders (HRDs) are facing […]

June 12, 2017 | Read full story | Comments are closed