Indigenous leaders here yesterday demanded exemplary punishment to a culprit for rape of an indigenous housewife in Sakhipur upazila and withdrawal of ‘false’ case against the victim’s family. Several hundred indigenous people belonging to...
Anwar Ali from Naogaon Almost 47 families, mostly indigenous, could hardly forget the indiscriminate attack by a group of people on them to grab the victim’s land at Nakhoil Boarambari village in Niamatpur upazila...
Religious bigots vandalised and looted at least 10 houses of the Ahmadiyyas in Chandtara village of the district’s Ghatail upazila early yesterday. Irate at the move to build an Ahmadiyya mosque in the area,...
Ten Ahmadiyyas were injured yesterday when a group of enraged villagers attacked them at Chandtara village of Ghatail upazila yesterday afternoon. The followers of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Bangladesh came under attack at 2:00pm after...
Govt plans separate land commission The government is weighing the idea of constituting a separate commission to settle the disputes over the lands of ethnic minority people living on the plains. Food and disaster...
INDIA: After examination of the combined fourth and fifth periodic report of India, CEDAW has called upon India to promptly review the continuance of the application of Armed Forces Special Powers Act and related protocols in conflict areas in accordance with the recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee report. :: Published in E-Pao ::
CEDAW recommends AFSPA repeal : 24th jul14 ~ E-Pao! Headlines
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Source: After examination of the combined fourth and fifth periodic report of India, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women (CEDAW), which is an international human rights treaty that focuses on women's rights, has called upon India to promptly review the continua…
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View on FacebookINDIA: 69 children missing since 2011 still untraced :: Published in "The Times of India" ::
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Around 69 children who went missing or were abducted in Goa over the past few years since 2011 are yet to be found.
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View on FacebookBANGLADESH: The organisations, citing statistics of BMP, said in the first six months of the year, there had been 304 rapes, 82 gang rapes, 45 murders after rape, 127 murders for dowry, 90 incidents of violence for dowry, and 80 suicides, among other incidents of violence against women.
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Sixty-eight women, human rights and development organisations yesterday expressed their concerns about the gradual increase of incidents of violence against women across the country. Under the platfor...
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Girl Summit 2014: A silver lining for girl child | VIEWS & REVIEWS | Financial Express ::...
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The Girl Summit 2014 is scheduled to begin in London today (July 22). Heads of government including the Prime Minister
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View on FacebookBANGLADESH: “The Bangladeshi government has promised to reform Rab and hold it accountable, but it has utterly failed,” said HRW Asia director Brad Adams. :: Published in The Daily Star ::
HRW again urges disbanding Rab
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Human Rights Watch in an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated its demand to disband Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). Until it is disbanded, Rab should be made into an entirel...
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View on FacebookPAKISTAN: The federal government has failed to constitute the National Commission for Human Rights for the promotion and protection of rights in the country in view of the National Commission for Human Rights Act, 2012. Though the law was promulgated in May 2012, the federal government has yet to start the process of appointing members of the commission. :: Published in The Express Tribune ::
Paris Principles: Two decades after pledge, govt fails to form rights panel
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According to the Paris Principles, member states must establish national rights institutions.
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View on Facebook“Millions of people, the majority of whom are women and children, are victims of a modern form of slavery – we call it human trafficking,” John Ashe said, noting that an estimated 2.5 million people are victim to this scourge. :: Published in Media for Freedom ::
| News | Human trafficking has no place in modern world by media for freedom
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View on FacebookSRI LANKA: Some fear if the advice of the three prominent experts are highly critical then they may just end up in the bin like the International Independent Eminent Group of Persons (IIEGP) in 2008. | Published in The Sunday Times |
Scepticism Over Latest Probe | The Sunday Leader
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The Government announcement last week that the mandate of the Presidential Commission on missing persons had been expanded to investigate civilian deaths during the war and the appointment of three internationally acclaimed experts to advice the commission came as a surprise to many. Some fear if th…
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View on FacebookPAKISTAN: The sad reality is that many in this society do not think much of this heinous crime against women. In fact, every now and then village councils order gang-rape of women as a way of keeping the weak and powerless in their place. | Published in Business Recorder |
Rape and the law | Business Recorder
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Pointing to a glaring injustice, PPP Senator Sughra Imam told the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice recently that the conviction rate for r
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View on FacebookPakistani President Mamnoon Hussain on July 11 gave Pakistani citizens a new reason to fear the country’s security forces. He signed into law the Protection of Pakistan Act, whose provisions open the door for the violation of fundamental rights to freedom of speech, privacy, peaceful assembly and a fair trial. || Published in The Express Tribune ||
Pakistan’s dangerous anti-terrorism law
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Denying Pakistanis their universal rights and freedoms isn’t a smart or effective tool for battling terrorism.
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