Bangladesh: End Enforced Disappearances Hold Law Enforcement Accountable

*Joint Statement by 12 human rights groups ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 2020

(Dhaka, August 28, 2020) – Bangladesh security forces and law-enforcement agencies continuously commit enforced disappearances with impunity, targeting journalists, activists, and government critics, 12 human rights groups said today ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The groups remember the victims of enforced disappearances and stand in solidarity with the families of people who have been forcibly disappeared in Bangladesh and across the world.

ADVOCACY FORUM APPEALS TO SAVE LIVES OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS AT HUNGER STRIKE

PRESS STATEMENT

Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) is concerned about the deteriorating health condition of IIh, a youth activist, who has been staging an indefinite hunger strike ‘Satyagraha’ for the last 13 days. The second phase of the hunger strike started on 18 July 2020 as a part of the "Enough is Enough" campaign (an independent collective movement, initiated and joined by hundreds of Nepali youths around the country demanding broader accountability and transparency in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic). This second phase hunger strike is a call to the government to adhere to its previous commitments and to address 15-point demands (such as an expansion of PCR testing criteria, optimum use of existing resources, contact tracing, the rectification of quarantine strategy, risk information, timely results, dignity, security and relief, transparency and accountability and so forth) for better COVID-19 response measures. To date, more than 150 youths have participated in a relay hunger strike. 

AFAD Seeks Truth and Justice for Masood Janjua and his Family on the 15th Year of his Disappearance

Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) remembers Masood Janjua, a businessman from Pakistan who was disappeared on 30^th July 2005, along with his friend while they were travelling on a bus to Peshawar. Masood’s disappearance 15 years ago was the first recorded and documented case of disappearance in Pakistan that led to a movement against enforced disappearances in the country.

On the occasion of International Justice Day - Advocacy Forum-Nepal Urges Government to Ratify Rome Statute

Press statement
17 July 2020
Kathmandu, Nepal

Globally, 17 July is commemorated as the International Criminal Justice Day in recognition of the adoption of the Rome Statute on 17 July 1998. On this occasion, Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) pledges its support to the strengthening of the international criminal justice system and calls upon all the stakeholders to act together to end impunity for the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, established by the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).