Odhikar’s joint statement with the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Mayer Daak on the occasion of International Week of the Disappeared 2021 BANGLADESH: Government must conduct impartial and thorough investigations into all cases of enforced disappearance and bring the perpetrators to justice Dhaka/Manila/Paris, 25 May 2021: Every [ Read more ]

Our member from Bangladesh, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) is organising, with Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), a webinar ‘Hunger Games for real: The Bangla worker abroad’ The webinar is on June 3, 8:oo PM (Singapore Standard Time), is planned for 90 minutes, and listen in to a unique panel of experts who [ Read more ]

Odhikar’s Statement on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2021: Government interference in the media must stop and repressive ICT Act and DSA must be repealed   3 May is World Press Freedom Day, as recognised by the United Nations. This year’s theme for World Press Freedom Day, “Information as a Public Good”, serves as [ Read more ]

03 May 2021 H.E. Michelle Bachelet United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland RE: Crackdown on Press Freedom & Freedom of Expression in Bangladesh Dear High Commissioner Bachelet, On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, we write to draw your attention to the escalating human [ Read more ]

(April 20, 2021) – We, the undersigned, condemn the brutal killing of at least five and the grievous injury to more than 50 workers of the Banshkhali coal-fired power plant in Chattogram (Chittagong), Bangladesh. At least five people were killed, and numerous others gravely injured when state security forces started shooting live ammunition at the [ Read more ]

Y – Moves Project of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) with YFC BD and YES BD, with the support from Plan International Bangladesh organised an event titled “Safe Internet orientation: Increasing Digital Visibility” at the Saint Bangladesh, Barisal premises on 15 March 2021. This event was organised on the occasion of observing the International Women’s [ Read more ]

For Immediate Release International Community Should Stand with Victims of Abuses (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 [ Read more ]

(March 5, 2021) – The Bangladeshi authorities must end their escalating crackdown on human rights, and respect and protect people’s rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in Bangladesh to curb protesters demanding justice for writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in prison on 25 February, the nine undersigned human rights organizations said in a joint [ Read more ]

(New York) – The United Nations should use its meetings with senior Bangladeshi military officials next week to protest attempts to use the UN as cover for abuses at home, seven human rights groups said today. The UN should announce a comprehensive review of UN relations with Bangladeshi armed forces, the top troop contributor to peacekeeping [ Read more ]

Impunity is the absence of accountability and the rule of law. Impunity is defined in an international human rights instruments as the ‘impossibility, de jure or de facto, of bringing perpetrators of violations to account’, in criminal, civil, administrative or disciplinary proceedings, because such perpetrators are not made subject to inquiries that will allow them [ Read more ]