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Open letter to Sheikh Hasina from ICJ on termination of Odhikar project

The ICJ expressed its deep concern through a letter to the prime minister Sheikh Hasina regarding the NGO Affairs Bureau’s decision on 17 August 2009 to terminate Odhikar’s project titled ‘Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme in Bangladesh.’ As the project was approved by the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, and has […]

September 4, 2009 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

AHRC expresses concern regarding cancellation of project relating to promotion of Optional Protocol to the Convention against torture led by Odhikar

Asian Human Rights Commission  (AHRC) issued a letter to Ms. Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to express their concern regarding cancellation of the project on “Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme in Bangladesh” relating to promotion of optional protocol to the convention against torture led by the […]

September 4, 2009 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Bangladesh : Government cancels human rights defender organisation’s project

Urgent Appeal published by Frontline in support of Odhikar. Odhikar has received a letter on 31 August 2009 from the NGO Affairs Bureau informing the organisation that the Ministry of Home Affairs had objected to one of its projects entitled “Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme in Bangladesh,” and that it was thereby cancelled. […]

September 2, 2009 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }