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AFAD Commemorates Human Rights Day
Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) commemorates the Human Rights Day, observed each year on the 10th of December. This day this year marks 70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and thus makes the day of greater significance.
This day is an opportunity to assess the situation of human rights across the world and to ascertain how hard the States must work to ensure basic human rights for every individual. Unfortunately, in Asia, the situation of human rights has been deteriorating with repressive regimes coming to power, institution of repressive state policies, institutionalized impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations and persecution of human rights defenders.
AFAD remembers Bangladeshi Diplomat Maroof Zaman on the 1st Anniversary of his Disappearance
Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) remembers Maroof Zaman, a former diplomat from Bangladesh who was disappeared one year ago today.
Maroof Zaman is the former Bangladeshi ambassador to Qatar and Vietnam, Counsellor of the Bangladesh High Commission in the United Kingdom, former Additional Secretary of the Foreign Ministry and a retired Bangladesh Army Captain. Although he has never been politically active or charged with any offence, he was recalled from his last post as soon as the incumbent government of Bangladesh came to power, and was later forcibly retired.
AFAD Expresses Concern over the Intimidation of its Member Organization – Odhikar in Bangladesh
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses grave concern over the deteriorating situation in Bangladesh ahead of the general election in December 2018 and the precarious position in which its member-organization, Odhikar is operating.
