enforced disappearances in Bangladesh

No more enforced disappearances: HRSS places seven demands

Calls grow for justice ahead of Enforced Disappearance Day

A UN rights office can make law enforcers accountable

Signing of three-year MoU paves the way for UNHRO to open a mission in Bangladesh

Can Bangladesh deliver justice for the disappeared?

The interim government has taken important steps to acknowledge past abuses and lay the foundation for justice.

Int’l day of the victims of enforced disappearances: Victim pinpoints DGFI detention centre

If there is one thing that differentiates the arbitrary detention of HM Rana from the other victims of enforced disappearance, it is that he knows exactly where he was inside the Dhaka Cantonment.

Inadequacy in law doesn't justify enforced disappearances

Bangladesh has once again denied any instances of enforced disappearance, despite facing harsh criticism from human rights activists and calls from leading Western democracies to investigate alleged cases.

Jailing rights defenders sends the wrong message

Instead, investigate and stop human rights violators

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2023 / ‘NHRC can’t directly investigate cases involving law enforcers’

NHRC Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed talks about how the commission has dealt with the cases of enforced disappearance.

Extrajudicial Killings: Numbers drop sharply since US sanctions

Numbers of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances have dropped drastically in Bangladesh since the US imposed sanctions on Rab and seven of its former and current officials for alleged human rights abuses, the Human Rights Watch observed in its annual report.

August 29, 2025
August 29, 2025

No more enforced disappearances: HRSS places seven demands

Calls grow for justice ahead of Enforced Disappearance Day

July 19, 2025
July 19, 2025

A UN rights office can make law enforcers accountable

Signing of three-year MoU paves the way for UNHRO to open a mission in Bangladesh

June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025

Can Bangladesh deliver justice for the disappeared?

The interim government has taken important steps to acknowledge past abuses and lay the foundation for justice.

August 30, 2024
August 30, 2024

How could we have descended to such depravity?

Extrajudicial killings and disappearances should never reappear

August 30, 2024
August 30, 2024

Int’l day of the victims of enforced disappearances: Victim pinpoints DGFI detention centre

If there is one thing that differentiates the arbitrary detention of HM Rana from the other victims of enforced disappearance, it is that he knows exactly where he was inside the Dhaka Cantonment.

March 17, 2024
March 17, 2024

Inadequacy in law doesn't justify enforced disappearances

Bangladesh has once again denied any instances of enforced disappearance, despite facing harsh criticism from human rights activists and calls from leading Western democracies to investigate alleged cases.

September 16, 2023
September 16, 2023

Jailing rights defenders sends the wrong message

Instead, investigate and stop human rights violators

August 30, 2023
August 30, 2023

‘NHRC can’t directly investigate cases involving law enforcers’

NHRC Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed talks about how the commission has dealt with the cases of enforced disappearance.

January 13, 2023
January 13, 2023

Extrajudicial Killings: Numbers drop sharply since US sanctions

Numbers of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances have dropped drastically in Bangladesh since the US imposed sanctions on Rab and seven of its former and current officials for alleged human rights abuses, the Human Rights Watch observed in its annual report.

September 18, 2022
September 18, 2022

Enforced disappearances: UN group records 5 more cases

Five new incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh were reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in the last one year.