United Nations A/HRC/31/NGO/X General Assembly Distr.: General 15 February 2016 English only Human Rights Council Thirty-first session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, […]
Bangladesh
ASIA: Situation of human rights defenders in China, Thailand, and Bangladesh
United Nations A/HRC/31/NGO/X General Assembly Distr.: General 15 February 2016 English only Human Rights Council Thirty-first session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, […]
Disconnected policing and the justice trade in Bangladesh: The case of Abdur Razzak
Bangladesh Desk, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Although people across Bangladesh know very well that the country’s justice system is actually a marketplace where police and court staff sell […]
Democratization and human rights in Bangladesh: An appraisal of the military- controlled Fakhruddin interregnum
Md. Shariful Islam, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh The latest military coup in Bangladesh, in the guise of a state of emergency under the constitution, […]
Bangladesh 2008: Insidious militarisation and illegal emergency
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Bangladesh has struggled with poverty, environmental disasters, deeply entrenched corruption and a range of grave human rights violations since its independence in 1971. The […]
The disposable prosecutors of Bangladesh
Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Programme Assistant, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong Bangladesh does not have permanent prosecution service. Rather, the nation has so far lived with a disposable prosecution system, although […]
The misrule of law in Bangladesh
Rater Zonaki, Human Rights Defender, Sylhet, Bangladesh Arresting and taking high-profile people to court has become a sensational issue in many countries of the world. In Bangladesh, it occurred recently […]
Laws without order & courts of no relief in Bangladesh
Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Researcher, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong While the whole of Bangladesh is struggling for some justice, the country’s laws and judiciary are compromised and incapable of meeting […]
Introduction: Lawless law-enforcement & the parody of judiciary in Bangladesh
Editorial board, article 2 This special report, “Lawless law-enforcement & the parody of judiciary in Bangladesh” (article 2, vol. 5, no. 4, August 2006), is the first published by the […]
Bangladesh, a corrupted & tortured nation
Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong Although Bangladesh has twice gone through independence struggles, culminating in full political independence in 1971, its laws have not yet emerged from the 19th […]