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...
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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...
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...