Bangladesh
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Bangladesh: Stop Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders and Their Families
Tags Share The Government of Bangladesh must stop reprisals against human rights defenders and their families in its campaign to exculpate perpetrators of human rights abuses, and must ensure they can work in a safe and enabling environment. Coercion, intimidation, and harassment committed by members of the state security and intelligence agencies on those working…
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Bangladesh: Rights groups call for release of Nusrat Shahrin Raka, sister of Bangladeshi journalist Kanak Sarwar
Tags Share January 27, 2022 Mr. Abu Mohammad Amin Uddin Attorney General of Bangladesh Attorney General’s Office of Bangladesh People’s Republic of Bangladesh attorneygeneraloffice.bd@gmail.com Dear Attorney General Abu Mohammad Amin Uddin, We, the undersigned 15 press freedom and human rights organizations, write to urge you to withdraw opposition to pre-trial bail for Nusrat Shahrin Raka,…
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UN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
Tags Share January 19, 2022 – The United Nations Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s notoriously abusive paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under Secretary General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public today. Human rights organizations have documented widespread RAB abuses. UN human rights experts have also…
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Bangladesh: Stop Harassment of Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share (December 14, 2021) – Bangladesh authorities must end the harassment of Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, respectively Secretary and Director of the human rights group Odhikar, who have been targeted through the misuse of the criminal justice system, eleven rights groups said today. On December 15, 2021, the Cyber Tribunal of…
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Bangladesh: Officials Linked to Hundreds of ‘Disappearances’
Human rights groups urge action on International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance.
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Hold Bangladesh Security Forces Accountable for Torture
The Bangladesh government has failed to address widespread allegations of torture and cruelty by its security forces. It’s time for the UN to take action.
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UN: Stand with Bangladeshi Journalists on Press Freedom Day
Tags Share New York, NY (May 3, 2021)–The Bangladesh government’s increasingly violent crackdown on media freedom is of urgent concern on World Press Freedom Day, nine nongovernmental organizations said in a letter today to Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bachelet and UN experts should publicly and vigorously express concerns over…
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Bangladesh: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should Be Turning Point on Human Rights
Tags Share (New York, March 26, 2021) – Governments joining the celebrations to mark the 50th Founding Anniversary of Bangladesh and to honor the birth centenary of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 26, 2021, should know that Bangladeshis are enduring an escalating crackdown on human rights by the Awami League-led government, a group…
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International Community Must Respond to Crackdown on Freedom of Expression in Bangladesh
The Bangladeshi authorities must end their escalating crackdown on human rights.
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New Grave Allegations Against Bangladesh Army Chief
The UN must comprehensively review its relations with Bangladeshi armed forces, the top troop contributor to peacekeeping missions worldwide.
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Rights for Rohingya Refugees
It’s time for Bangladesh to recognize Rohingya refugees as full citizens.
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International Community: Stand Against Authoritarian Rule in Bangladesh
Tags Share The international community should take a strong stand for the protection of human rights in Bangladesh, seven human rights groups said on International Human Rights Day. As Bangladeshis grapple with the impact of Covid-19, the ruling Awami League has used the pandemic to tighten the screws on critics and the free press, further…
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