PAPER CLIP:BIHR Celebrates International Womens day 2010

BRCT/BIHR organiszes training Programme on Health & Human Rights for Adibasi Student

URGENT ACTION: Take prompt action against allege polices who are involve with the issue FATOWA regarding to mandatory wearing BORKA

MONTHLY HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT: By GHRD(Feb 2010)

Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) Monthly Human Rights Report Bangladesh, February 2010

The 8th of March 2010, marks the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD), which is celebrated worldwide. It was launched by the UN in 1913 as a means of promoting and protecting the equal rights of women globally. Incidents of violence against minority women, such as rape and abduction, were reported during February, in Bangladesh. In most of these cases the perpetrators were in a more powerful position than the victims as they were members of law enforcement agencies or political parties. Highly corrupt legal institutions is one of the main causes for the lack of a proper protection system for Bangladeshi citizens and women’s marginalised situation in Bangladesh, due to religious traditions, social injustice, thus making them more vulnerable. The widespread impunity in cases regarding violence against women encourages these continuous violations. There is still a high level of sexual harassment in Bangladesh, which is detailed in Odhikar’s month report. For example, there was an incident reported about a Dalit woman who was raped by a policeman.

URGENT APPEAL:Bangladesh: A 15-year old indigenous girl gang-raped

Date: 1-3-2010,

The Hague, The Netherlands

URGENT APPEAL: Bangladesh: A 15-year old indigenous girl gang-raped [UA-BA-01.03.2010]

                                                                                     

ISSUES:  Rights of minorities, personal integrity, abduction; gang-rape

Dear Friends,

Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) is very concerned regarding the news we received from the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) about the gang-rape of an indigenous 15-year old girl.

The girl was abducted outside of her home, on the 26th of February, by five local Bengali leaders at Bandra village in Moddhonagar police station under Sunamgong district, according to their investigation. The girl was taken to a nearby river where she was repeatedly raped until she became unconscious. When she was found later that evening she was still unconscious. On the 27th February the girl’s family tried to lodge a complaint against the perpetrators at Moddhonagar Police station, but the officer in charge refused to file it.