NHRC Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed talks about how the commission has dealt with the cases of enforced disappearance.
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
At least 15 people were killed in “extrajudicial killings” and “custody of law enforcement agencies” across the country till September of this year, Ain O Salish Kendra said in a report.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday filed a petition with the High Court, seeking its directive for conducting a judicial inquiry into the incident of a teacher being humiliated in Narail.
Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern over patients being denied treatment in many hospitals of the country due to coronavirus fears.
The stand release of Pirojpur district and sessions judge after denying bail of a former lawmaker and his wife and another judge granting them bail hours later have posed serious questions about the independence of the judiciary, rights body Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) says.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, demands an independent inquiry commission to investigate all sorts of rights violation including rape, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance in the country.
The High Court directs the authorities to maintain a status quo for three months on the Rajuk mobile court order that fined Tk two lakh to Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a leading rights organisation, and asked it to leave its Lalmatia office in Dhaka.
Civil society platform Ain O Salish Kendra voices concern over plans to form a "media monitoring cell" and urged the government not to take hasty steps in this regard.
Ain o Salish Kendra expresses deep concern over the arrest and remand of senior journalist Shafik Rehman as “the process of the detention has created confusion among people”.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) today demands there be a judicial investigation into yesterday’s incident of killing four persons in a clash between law enforcers and locals in Banshkhali upazila of Chittagong.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, condemns killing of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a student of Victoria College in Comilla, and expresses serious concern for the perpetrators involved in the killing not being arrested yet.
What is missing from NHRC's actions is that it has not done systematic monitoring of the health services prevailing in the country, and has not taken any strategic action to improve them.
While rape is a commonly reported form of violence against women in Bangladesh, only over one half of women who experience rape actually seek any kind of remedy from the police.