AFAD’s Statement for the 11th year of Masood’s Enforced Disappearance in Pakistan

30 July 2016 – Today, July 30, 2016, is the eleventh year since the disappearance of Masood Ahmed Janjua, which occurred on July 30, 2005 during the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf. A respectable citizen of Pakistan, before his disappearance, Masood Ahmed Janjua was an educator and a businessman by profession. Mr Janjua was more than a businessman; he was also a philanthropist and he managed a charity hospital for the poor.

ICAED Primer

Introducción

¿Por qué necesitamos la Convención Internacional para la Protección de las Personas contra las desaparicio-nes forzadas?

A. La importancia del Convenio para las familias de los desa-parecidos El papel que pueden desempeñar las organizaciones no gubernamentales y la sociedad civil en la promoción y aplicación de la Convención Inter-nacional para la Protección de las Personas contra las desapariciones forzadas

Six-Month Human Rights Monitoring Report

Executive Summary

The human rights situation of Bangladesh in the first six months of 2016 was cause for grave concern. After the controversial and farcical Parliamentary elections, political intolerance, lack of effective institutions and wide-spread and varied human rights violations were the main obstacles to the exercise of democracy in Bangladesh. The Caretaker Government system was incorporated in the Constitution through the 13th Amendment, as a result of people’s movement led by the then Opposition Awami League and its alliance between 1994 and 1996.

Odhikar Statement

Odhikar is deeply shocked and mourns the deaths at the Holey Artisan Bakery incident in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 1, 2016. Odhikar extends its deepest sympathies to the families of the victims. As a human rights organization, Odhikar believes that preventive strategies that improve the moral, ethical and political culture of society is a must, if we want to avert such violent occurrences.