These oversight institutions must not be left in limbo any longer
Why hasn't the government reconstituted NHRC even after seven months?
The NHRC has historically had glaring shortcomings in fulfilling its function.
Government must protect rights workers from intimidation and legal persecution
NHRC Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed talks about how the commission has dealt with the cases of enforced disappearance.
The state must protect their rights unconditionally
The National Human Rights Commission today (June 28, 2022) asked authorities concerned to take legal steps against the policemen, who played silent role during the incident of putting garlands of shoes around the neck of a college teacher in Narail on June 17.
Chief of National Human Rights Commission Nasima Begum says the Dhaka University student who was raped in Kurmitola on Sunday night can recognise the rapist if she sees him.
National Human Rights Commission is going to launch an online complaint management system to help people from distant areas in lodging their grievances without any hassle, commission chairman Nasima Begum says.
The fact-finding committee of National Human Rights Commission did not find any link between the general election and the gang rape of a housewife in Noakhali's Subarnachar the following day, contradicting the claim of the victim herself.
Law Minister Anisul Huq says climate change is impacting public health, food and water security, and migration not only in Bangladesh, but the entire world.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommends that all Rohingya returnees should be kept in a United Nations-supervised buffer zone before their homes, which were destroyed by the Myanmar army, are rebuilt.
National Human Rights Commission sends a letter to the home minister urging him to ensure constitutional rights of all including the alleged drug dealers and suspected criminals.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) condemns the attack on the students who have been demonstrating in the capital’s Shahbagh demanding reforms in the quota system in public services.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) expresses its grave concern over the increasing trend of violence against women in the country and held social unrest and culture of impunity responsible for such offences.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) forms a three-member fact finding committee over the arson attack at three hilly villages in Longadu upazila of Rangamati district.
Delay in Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder probe has made people doubt the progress in capturing real culprits, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman says.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman says the cleaning of the crime scene in the Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case may mislead the trial process.
Should we be surprised that police did not find their own fault in the assault of Rabby, the Bangladesh Bank official, who was picked up by a patrol police team while he was coming out of an ATM booth late in the night, tortured and then robbed? We strongly believe such incidents should not be probed by police themselves but by a separate body. The National Human Rights Commission can coordinate such probes.
