The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged the Government of Bangladesh to cooperate with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to determine the fate or whereabouts of those disappeared and to prevent future enforced disappearances in the country. The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in its latest report submitted […]
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Pakistan’s resolution against Myanmar at the UNHRC contains factually incorrect information: ACHR calls for amendment
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a press release today stated that Pakistan’s draft resolution against Myanmar tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday contains factually incorrect information and does not include key issues relating to the Rohingya refugees. The draft resolution (A/HRC/29/L.30 dated 1 July 2015) titled “Situation […]
Over 200,000 Rohingyas waiting to be trafficked
-UN and Bangladesh making them easy prey to traffickers and terrorists- New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a report (http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2015/244-15.html) released today stated that the United Nations and the Government of Bangladesh have been deliberately making the Rohingyas easy prey to the traffickers and terrorists, and over 200,000 undocumented Rohingyas in Bangladesh are essentially waiting to […]
Civil & Political Rights in Jeopardy in Bangladesh
Bangladesh ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on 6th September 2000. In the last fourteen and half years, Bangladesh has not even submitted its Initial Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. In this submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is holding its 113th Session from 16 […]
Bangladesh: About 90 killed in violence, BNP reminded of its obligation under the Rome Statute
NEW DELHI: Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War”, released today stated that about 90 people have been killed and more than a thousand were injured in the ongoing violent anti-government protests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alliance demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s […]
Bangladesh: Sending death squads to keep the UN’s peace
Despite a return to democracy in December 1990, the Bangladesh Army remains “the power behind the throne” in Dhaka. Its control over the security forces is absolute. A large number of senior positions in the Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force are served by Army officers as per Section 2A of the Army Act of […]
Bangladesh: Sending death squads to keep the UN’s peace
Despite a return to democracy in December 1990, the Bangladesh Army remains “the power behind the throne” in Dhaka. Its control over the security forces is absolute. A large number of senior positions in the Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force are served by Army officers as per Section 2A of the Army Act of […]