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Human rights report 2012 : Odhikar report on Bangladesh

The Human rights movement does not merely revolve around activities to protect victims of human rights violations from the abuses of the State, but by its very gesture interrogates the nature of political power and the moral and cultural foundations of a society. In countries like Bangladesh, where democratic transformation is still a task to […]

January 12, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Amendment to Anti-Terrorism Act further undermines compliance with international human rights standards

Joint Press Release Paris-Dhaka, 23 February 2012. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization in Bangladesh, Odhikar, are deeply concerned by the adoption on 16 February by the Parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad, of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill which widens the scope of sanctions provided in the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 (ATA) […]

February 23, 2012 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Odhikar’s concern about the proposed Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2011

Odhikar is deeply concerned to learn from the media of the proposed amendments to the AntiTerrorism Act 2009, approved by the Cabinet meeting on December 26, 2011, which has widened the scope of the Act by approving death penalty for financing terrorist activities. The existing law stipulates that a person guilty of the offence of […]

December 27, 2011 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Human rights monitoring report : January-June 2011

This human rights monitoring report covers the six-month period from January to June 2011. The main areas of issue within the report are as follows: Political violence continues into 2011 Political violence related to elections Extrajudicial killings Death in custody Public lynching Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) in the news The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 and […]

July 1, 2011 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Human rights monitoring report : January-March 2011

This human rights monitoring report covers the three month period from January to March 2011. The main areas of issue within the report are as follows: Reported statistics show that every 3 days 1 person is killed extra-judicially Bangladeshi girl killed and hung on barbed wire fence by BSF Complainant receives threats by the killers […]

April 1, 2011 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Odhikar’s concern about Anti-Terrorism Act 2009

February 23, 2011 24 February 2011 marks the second anniversary of the enactment of Anti-terrorism Act. Odhikar would like to express and reiterate its grave concern on the Act that was passed in the very first session of the current Parliament on February 24, 2009. Earlier, on February 19, 2009, the Government, at a Cabinet […]

February 23, 2011 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }