July 12, 2011

পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রামে আদিবাসী সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের উপর আক্রমনের সময় সরকারের নিরাপত্তা বাহিনী রহস্যজনকভাবে নীরব ভুমিকা পালন করে।

এই বছর ফেব্রুয়ারি ও এপ্রিল মাসে দুটি পৃথক আক্রমনে পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রামে সংখালঘু পাহাড়ী আদিবাসী সম্প্রদায়ের শতাধিক বাড়ী, একটি স্কুল এবং দুইটি বৌদ্ধ মন্দির ভষ্মিভূত হ্য়, যাতে ছয় শতাধিক আদিবাসী সংখ্যালঘু পুরুষ, মহিলা এবং শিশু গৃহহীন এবং অনেক মারাত্বকভাবে আহত হন ।

2010 JusticeMaker Shahanur Islam republishes the human rights information flyer

In preparation for a community information session that he will conduct in the near future, JM 2010 Shahanur Islam recently republished a brochure about human rights standards in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Institute for Human Rights (BIHR), published the brochure several months ago, in preparation for a door-to-door campaign to highlight the problem of torture in prisons. The pamphlet empowers ordinary Bangladeshis by informing them—in language easily understood by a layperson—of their rights once they are behind bars. As part of the community information session, Shahanur intends to distribute the brochure to residents of Dhaka and outside of Dhaka who have fallen victim to police abuse.

Shahanur says that his intention in creating and publishing the pamphlet was to remove a “veil of silence” that keeps torture victims from asserting their rights as human beings and citizens of their own country. Understanding that citizen activism is often muffled by illiteracy and a lack of education, the brochure contains short, impactful phrases that ordinary citizens can learn ad share with their neighbours and friends, to help amplify their voices.

BANGLADESH: Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) Quarterly Human Rights Report (January – March 2011)

Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD)
Quarterly Human Rights Report
January – March 2011

Download the report as a pdf

Contents

Introduction

In 2011, according to our mandate GHRD will report on human rights issues in Bangladesh on a quarterly basis and will focus on issues of abuse against minorities, particularly those in the Chittagong Hill Tract region, and extra judicial punishments resulting from village arbitration. These reports are the result of fact finding missions conducted by local partner organisations and news monitoring conducted at GHRD headquarters in The Hague.