BIHR Joint Statement: No Climate Justice without Debt Justice

The climate emergency is fuelling the accumulation of debt in countries in the global south.

Countries suffering from the worst impacts of climate change have contributed very little to it, yet they are facing more expensive borrowing costs because of their climate vulnerabilities. They are left with almost no option but to borrow to finance climate mitigation and adaptation, and fund reconstruction and recovery after an extreme climate event. Countries that have accumulated unsustainable debt levels have reduced fiscal space and opportunities to invest in adaptation and mitigation, as well as to recover from loss and damage from increasingly severe climate extreme events, slow onset events and environmental hazards. At the same time, climate finance - which should respond to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, as formulated in the 1992 Rio Principles to reflect historical climate debt - is being delivered mainly through loans and debt-creating modalities, placing the financial burden onto the shoulders of the global south.

Shahanur Islam speaks on Deadly Religious Violence in Bangladesh

Advocate Shahanur Islam Saikot, Secretary General of JusticeMakers Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights speaks with Radio Islam International, South Africa on Deadly Religious Violence Bangladesh.

To hear the interview please visit the link: 

https://radioislam.org.za/a/adv-shahanur-islam-saikot-hundreds-protest-in-bangladesh-over-deadly-religious-violence/

============================================================ Advocate Shahanur Islam | An Young, Ascendant, Dedicated Human Rights Defender, Lawyer and Blogger in Bangladesh, Fighting for Ensuring Human Rights, Rule of Law, Good Governance, Peace and Social Justice For the Victim of Torture, Extra Judicial Killing, Force Disappearance, Trafficking in Persons including Ethnic, Religious, Sexual and Social Minority People.

BIHR Joint Statement on the Occasion of World Day Against Death Penalty 2021

As we mark the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to women facing capital punishment, who have been sentenced to death, who have been executed or who have been pardoned or found not guilty, the members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and allies of women sentenced to death take this opportunity to:

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh Joint statement: BUILDING BACK BETTER FOR STATELESS PEOPLE

In June 2020, JusticeMakers Bangladesh along with 84 other civil society actors issued a joint statement ‘In Solidarity with the Stateless’ calling on: States, UN agencies, human rights, humanitarian and public health actors, donors and the media to address the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stateless people and those at risk of statelessness. One year on, the concerns expressed in that statement remain largely unaddressed, with the situation of stateless people further deteriorating, partly due to failures to acknowledge and respond to their specific contexts and uphold their rights. Moreover, new concerns and challenges, particularly around vaccine inequity, have also emerged. The 106 civil society actors, co-signatories to this statement, are deeply concerned that many States and other key stakeholders have been unable or unwilling to learn from past mistakes and have failed to adequately prioritise and resource the practical steps that can and must be taken to protect stateless people and the right to nationality.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh Celebrates Music Freedom day 2021

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights along with its partner organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh and Human Rights Development Project, Khulna celebrates the Music Freedom Day 2021 at Naogaon and Khulna today on 03 March 2021. The celebration of music freedom day is coordinated and supported by Freemuse, Denmark. They celebrates the day in Bangladesh with human chain, rally, dissuasion meeting as well as performing open air stage show by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender artists

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights along with its partner organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh and Human Rights Development Project, Khulna celebrates the Music Freedom Day 2021 at Naogaon and Khulna today. The celebration of music freedom day is coordinated and supported by Freemuse, Denmark. They celebrates the day in Bangladesh with human chain, rally, dissuasion meeting as well as performing open air stage show by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender artists.

Press release: Support for Colleague Shahanur Islam

This press release publish in Italian and English, from the Threatened Lawyers Observatory in support of the lawyer Shahanur Islam, defender of human rights.

Shahanur Islam is a lawyer, human rights defender, and blogger from Bangladesh. He is Secretary General and Honorary Executive Director of the Bangladesh Institute for Human Rights (BIHR) and founder of JusticeMakers Bangladesh. His work focuses in particular on minority rights, LGBT rights and cases of torture, killings and enforced disappearances by law enforcement.

Due to its activity, Islam has received many threats, has been attacked, hindered and even attacked, as well as involved in falsely constructed cases.