The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), an organization and network of democracy and political rights promoting groups, wishes to express its concern regarding the continued harassment and intimidation of Odhikar and its staff. In particular, the harassment of its Secretary Advocate Adilur Rahman Khan gives ANFREL concern that the government is attempting to intimidate […]
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Call for the end of harassment against Odhikar staff
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a membership based regional human rights organization, writes this letter expressing their deep concerns over the continued harassment of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan and Odhikar by national security agencies. Mr. Khan, a prominent human rights defender, is an advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and […]
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the FIDH and OMCT requests urgent intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh
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
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 […]
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