National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

Taliban delegates speak during talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents in Doha, Qatar on 12 September 2020

Taliban dissolve Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission deeming them unnecessary in the face of a ...

Shale Ahmed, Executive Director, BANDHU Social Welfare Society

Precise definitions of hijra and transgender are required: Shale Ahmed

The term ‘Third Gender’ was not used in the government gazette notification. Instead, the government has designated hijra individuals as “Hijra lingo (Hijra gender)”

Digital Security Act

Why this bar to get information on Digital Security Act?

All of us know one thing about the implementation of this digital security law, that it is being used indiscriminately

UNHCR

Enforced disappearance in Bangladesh to suppress opposition: UN working group

The incidents of violation of human rights soared before the elections in 2014 and 2018 as enforced disappearance is used as a weapon against the political opposition and any criticism, according to ...

Nasima Begum

'Human rights commission unable to do anything due to flaw in the law'

About the imposition of US sanctions on the seven former and current officials of RAB on charges of human rights violation, National Human Rights Commission chairman Nasima Begum said they cannot ...

Editorial

What type of Human Rights Commission this one is

Nasima Begum and her colleagues could not answer many questions at the press conference convened by the National Human Rights Commission to highlight the organisation’s activities of past two years

NHRC

Speakers call for making NHRC more effective

Speakers at a webinar on Friday demanded that the National Human Rights Commission be made effective by amending the laws in order to protect the human rights in the country