Families demand return of victims within 48 hours
The families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding return of them who disappeared during the tenure of the Awami League government...
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Conforming legal system to UN convention
BANGLADESH鈥橲 recent ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance signifies a pivotal step in the nation鈥檚 commitment to rights and...
Transparent legal process for arrest
BANGLADESH has signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. A commission led by Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury was formed earlier to investigate each case of enforced disappearance and provide recommendations for future prevention. It has been asked the commission to investigate every...
鈥楪oom: Jaan O Jaban鈥� under way
Anthropologist and documentary photographer Moshfiqur Rahman Johan has captured the in-depth reality of family members and relatives of victims of enforced disappearances in his solo photo exhibition under way at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum in the capital...
Stakes are high for interim govt
WE WILL certainly bring home the benefits of this victory, which has been achieved through many sacrifices. To fulfil this expectation, the advisors to the interim government have been trying to live up to it since the beginning. The long history of an autocratic rule has its impact. Its extraction is a huge undertaking. Because reform is as difficult as it is fraught with obstacles. The road is long with obstacles...
Return of victims demanded
Family members and relatives of victims of enforced disappearances on Friday sought to know whereabouts of their loved ones who the families believed to have been subject to enforced disappearance...
7 RAB members sued for disappearance of youth
Seven members of the Rapid Action Battalion have been named in a case filed over the alleged abduction and disappearance of a youth from Godagari upazila in Rajshahi in 2016...
Altaf Mahmud鈥檚 disappearance day today
Today is the 53rd disappearance day of eminent singer, composer, social activist and freedom fighter Altaf Mahmud, who is celebrated for his composition of 鈥楢mar Bhaiyer Rakte Rangano Ekushey February鈥�...
Bangladesh signs int鈥檒 instrument against enforced disappearance
The government on Thursday signed the Instrument of Accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Bangladesh govt forms commission to investigate enforced disappearances
The interim government on Tuesday constituted a five-member commission of inquiry to investigate into and identify the causes of enforced disappearances by the...
In need of a truth commission
THE victims of Aynaghar, where they were held in inhuman conditions during the Awami League regime, have started to recount the horrific ordeals that they have gone through. The victims come from different age groups as well as political and social backgrounds. The victims of enforced disappearances must now get justice...
Bangladesh to form commission on enforced disappearances
Adviser for environment, forest and climate change Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Thursday said that the interim government was set to form a commission to investigate incidents of...
Bangladesh considers forming commission on forced disappearances
The interim government is considering forming a commission to investigate the incidents of forced disappearances as many people were disappeared during the reign of the ousted Sheikh Hasina government...
Victims鈥� families give 24hr ultimatum to arrest culprits
Family members of victims of enforced disappearance on Wednesday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the interim government for arresting officials of law enforcement agencies involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance...
Govt must respond to Mayer Daak鈥檚 call for justice
THIS is disheartening and morally perplexing to see relatives of victims of enforced disappearances holding protests between their visiting the headquarters of the law enforcement agencies seeking information on members of the families while the government has so far taken no decisive steps to end their unimaginable sufferings...
Families demand return of disappearance victims
Families of victims of enforced disappearance demonstrated outside the Detective Branch鈥檚 office in the capital鈥檚 Minto Road on Wednesday night, demanding return of their missing relatives and holding the perpetrators accountable...
Disappearance perpetrators must be brought to justice
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...
Women Congress demands return of disappeared people
An organisation in a statement said that the enforced disappearance remained unabated in Bangladesh with nearly 700 reported victims from 2009 to 2023...
Two Chakma youths missing for 21 days
Two Chamka youths were yet to be traced 21 days after their disappearance while catching crabs in the sluice gate area of the River Naf along the Bangladesh鈥揗yanmar border at Whykong of Teknaf Upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar...
Cancellation of trial dismissal demanded
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a protest rally in Khagrachari on Friday, demanding that the order, issued by a Rangamati court on April 23 dismissing the trial over the disappearance of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma, be cancelled...
Commission condemns dismissing Kalpana Chakma case
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission in a statement on Sunday expressed disappointment at clearing of all suspects in a case filed over the...
AL behind all disappearances, says BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Wednesday that the Awami League government was responsible for every incident of enforced disappearance, and it was proven by them at different times...