FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2011 ALRC-CWS-16-10-2011 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Torture A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Government continues to dither instead of criminalizing torture The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is writing to the 16th session of the Human Rights Council to recall the urgent need for the government of Bangladesh to ensure the criminalization of torture. Torture remains an endemic problem that is deeply entrenched in law-enforcement practices and investigation methodologies. The UN Human Rights Council must have the capacity […]
Category: Bangladesh
BANGLADESH: Government urged to ratify forced disappearances convention and address impunity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2011 ALRC-CWS-16-01-2011 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Government urged to ratify forced disappearances convention and address impunity The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concerned by the ongoing incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh. The law-enforcement agencies and paramilitary forces, particularly the police, the Rapid Action Battalion and the armed forces, are directly involved in the abductions of persons and their subsequent disappearances. The executive authorities endorse these […]
BANGLADESH: Increasing incidence of enforced disappearances being committed with impunity must be halted
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2010 ALRC-CWS-15-03-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fifteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Increasing incidence of enforced disappearances being committed with impunity must be halted The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has previously made numerous submissions to the Human Rights Council (HRC) concerning a range of human rights issues in Bangladesh, including mass arbitrary arrests, endemic torture and widespread extra-judicial killings. The ALRC has noted in the last year a new trend that is of serious concern: an increase in the number of forced […]
BANGLADESH: Death penalty continues despite a flawed criminal justice system
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 ALRC-CWS-15-02-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fifteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Death penalty continues despite a flawed criminal justice system 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre welcomes the discussion by the Human Rights Council during its 15th session concerning the report of the Secretary General on the question of the death penalty. In light of this discussion, the ALRC is hereby submitting information pertaining to the death penalty in Bangladesh. Bangladesh acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) […]
BANGLADESH: Should a State responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings hold the Human Rights Council Presidency?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2010 ALRC-CWS-14-09-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Should a State responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings hold the Human Rights Council Presidency? The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concerned by the ongoing problem of frequent extra-judicial killings attributable to the State in Bangladesh and the continuing silence of the Human Rights Council on this matter. Furthermore, the ALRC has recently been informed that Bangladesh is now […]
BANGLADESH: Council urged to ensure Bangladesh passes pending Bill criminalizing torture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 19, 2010 ALRC-CWS-13-02-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Thirteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Torture A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BANGLADESH: Council urged to ensure Bangladesh passes pending Bill criminalizing torture The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has on several occasions submitted written and oral information to the Human Rights Council concerning a broad range of human rights violations taking place in Bangladesh. The country recently underwent a nearly two-year state of emergency under which gross and widespread human rights abuses were perpetrated, including the suspension […]
BANGLADESH: Bangladesh’s State of Emergency is unjustifiable and ensuring abuses of human rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 6, 2007 AL-023-2007 A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre to the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council BANGLADESH: Bangladesh’s State of Emergency is unjustifiable and ensuring abuses of human rights On January 11, 2007 the President of Bangladesh proclaimed a State of Emergency following an upsurge in violence between rival political groups. Unfortunately, the State of Emergency has been prolonged for more than seven months even though this violence has subsided. The State of Emergency has been accompanied by the Emergency Powers Ordinance-2007, which has supplemented the Emergency Powers Rules-2007. Provisions contained within these laws run contrary to a range […]
Acid attacks on women in Bangladesh
Item 12(a) : INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 21. Acid Attacks on Women in Bangladesh Link to UNCHR COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-eighth Session Item 12(a) of the Provisional Agenda INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), A non-governmental organization with general consultative status Acid attacks on women in Bangladesh 1. While violence against women remains prevalent throughout Asia, acid attacks on women, especially in Bangladesh, stand out as one of its most despicable and barbaric manifestations. 2. Women are guaranteed equal legal protection […]