Academics, researchers and rights activists on Wednesday underscored collaborative efforts by the state and non-state actors to ensure human rights for all in the country.
Their views came at a roundtable discussion titled ‘Human rights in transition: accountability, institutions, and fragility in post-uprising Bangladesh’ organised by rights-based think tank Sapran, held at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in the capital.
Speakers at the event said that people expected assurance of human rights for all following the July uprising, which ousted the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, but they experienced continuation of rights violations in the post-uprising time.
While presenting the summery of Sapran’s draft report, researcher Opshora Islam Tondra said that mob lynching and border violence had increased while state-enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings and custodial deaths had declined compared with the authoritarian regime.
She said that incidents of attacks on journalists were 496, 195 mob lynching, 640 violence against children, 34 killed in border violence, 24 violence on national minority people, 35 extra judicial killing, 45 killed and 300 injured in labour rights violation, and 2,878 incidents of murder were reported from August 2024 to July 2025.
The chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam at the programme said that the interim government, with its limitations, did its best to ensure human rights.
Mayer Daak coordinator Sanjida Islam Tulee said that activists demanded an effective National Human Rights Commission to take actions against rights violation.
Researcher Imran Hossain Tushar accused the home affairs and religious affairs ministries for their negligence on attacks on shrines across the country. Â
Human rights activists Mosfiqur Rahman Johan and Dalit Nari Forum project officer Tamanna Shing emphasised promoting human rights among people, especially among the marginal communities, as most of them were not aware of their rights.
Moderated by Dhaka University teacher Psymhe Wadud, the discussion was also attended by lawyer Sara Hossain, rights activist Rezaur Rahman Lenin and lawyer Manzur Al Matin, among others.          Â
