DEVOTION AMID ADVERSITY: REMEMBERING FR. RUDY ROMANO’S 33RD YEAR OF DISAPPEARANCE

11 July 2010 - Today, AFAD remembers Redemptorist priest and social justice activist Fr. Rudy Romano with profound honor and respect on his 33^rd year of enforced disappearance. Devoted to the poor and marginalized, Fr. Romano staunchly condemned the barefaced culture of impunity and violence during Ferdinand Marcos’ tyrannical regime. He wholeheartedly served the poor by dedicating his life toward the attainment of justice and peace, and sharing meaningful teachings centered on ‘conscience toward genuine freedom. On July 11, 1985, witnesses said that Fr. Romano was taken by military intelligence agents in Labangon, Cebu City, which was the last time he was publicly seen.

Odhikar: Quota Reform Movement: Immediately arrest the Chhatra League perpatrators; reform the quota!

3 July 2018

Press Statement

Odhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificOdhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificattacks by the Chhatra League leaders have unleashed on students protesting for the reformationof the quota on government jobs, since 30 June 2018; along with the police barring protestorsfrom holding protest programmes on this issue, the police picking up a protestor of theMovement and disappearing him for one day - before showing him as arrested; and arrestinganother protestor and taking him into remand. Even though such attacks are being carried out onstudents from Dhaka University and other universities, Odhikar condemns the fact that theperpatrators have not been brought to justice and the government chooses to remain silentregarding this matter.

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.