- Category: Press Releases
Press Release
3rd May 2017
The last week of May every year is recognized internationally as the International Week of the Disappeared and is an opportunity to remember the disappeared, and acknowledge the struggle of their families. This year, tomorrow on 4th of May, India’s human rights record will be reviewed in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) under the “Universal Periodic Review” (UPR) system by which States subject themselves to a review - by other States - of their human rights record. Since 2006, when the UPR process began, India has been reviewed twice - 2008 and 2012 and 4 May 2017 is India’s third cycle of UPR.
- Category: Press Releases
17 April 2017
The District Court Kavrepalanchowk Convicts Three out of Four Army Officers Accused of Maina's Murder
Kathmandu: Today, after 13 years of legal battle, the District Court of Kavrepalanchok has convicted perpetrators involved in Maina's murder. The court has acquitted one of them, who is still serving the army. (For more detail of the case see, Maina Sunuwar: Separating Facts from Fiction, http://advocacyforum.org/downloads/pdf/publications/maina-english.pdf.)
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Five years have passed since former BNP lawmaker M. Ilias Ali disappeared without a trace, and the law enforcers have failed to find him. Ilias Ali was an Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the time of his disappearance, along with his chauffeur Mohammad Ansar on the night of April 17, 2012. Police later found his car near his home at Banani, Dhaka.
- Category: News
Five years after the disappearance and murder of garment worker union leader Aminul Islam, his killers have not been brought to justice.
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On March 30, 2017 body of Nurul Alam Nuru, a Joint Secretary of the Central Committee of Chhatra Dal , was recovered from the bank of Karnophuli River beside the Kholarghat Bazar at Bagoan Union under Raujan Upazila in Chittagong District. His family alleged that Nuru was picked up by some men claiming to be police from his residence at Chandonpura in Chittagong. Nuru’s nephew Rashedul Islam said that on March 2017 at around 11:00 pm, some men knocked the door. When he opened the door, about 8-10 police personnel of Noapara Police Outpost entered his uncle’s house and arrested Nuru. Later they handcuffed Nuru and took him in a white microbus. Police denied the arrest of Chhatra Dal leader Nurul Alam Nuru.
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POSITION: Philippine Project Coordinator
LOCATION: Quezon City, NCR
DURATION: Project-based/Full-time
- Category: Statements
Today, on International Women’s Day, AFAD pays tribute to the strength of all women, to those who have played a major role in the fight against enforced disappearances in the past and to those who continue their struggle for truth and justice today.
- Category: Statements
GENEVA (24 February 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* are calling on Bangladesh to act now to halt an increasing number of enforced disappearances in the country.
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances says the number of cases has risen from a few isolated cases a few years ago, to more than 40 now, and that the number is continuing to grow. Independent reports blame the Rapid Action Battalion of the Bangladesh Police for several disappearances and extra-judicial executions, notably of political opponents of the Government.