Odhikar: Half-yearly Human Rights Monitoring Report

January - June 2018

Date of Release: 1 July 2018

Foreword

Odhikar has been monitoring the human rights situation in Bangladesh in order to promote and protect civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Bangladeshi citizens and to report on violations and defend the victims since 1994. Odhikar does not believe that the human rights movement merely endeavours to protect the „individual‟ from violations perpetrated by the state; rather, it believes that the movement to establish the rights and dignity of every individual is part of the struggle to constitute Bangladesh as a democratic state.

AFAD Commemorates the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Today, on the 26^th of June 2018, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) commemorated the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.  AFAD stands in solidarity with the victims of torture across the globe and condemns this inhuman treatment of individuals.

APDP & JKCCS WELCOMES THE UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

OHCHR remote monitoring report released

Press Release

14 June 2018

JKCCS and APDP welcome today’s important report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva. This is the first report by the United Nations exclusively on Indian administered (IaK) and Pakistan administered (PaK) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). After continually being denied access since 2016, the OHCHR has based this report (49 pages in total) on its remote monitoring of the situation on ground, with closer attention to the period of July 2016 to April 2018.

#FightToBeFreeDecade3

Completing 20 years of struggle for a world without desaparecidos, AFAD has to persist in rendering itself irrelevant.