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Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities of Dallas Fort-Worth (HRCBM-DFW): Atrocities against Minorities in Bangladesh. The AHRC's report on 'brutal' torture of Rahman Shohel; Article2's long list of alleged abuses of human rights; ECT: Why Gay men flee Bangladesh; Murder in the Hill tracts; Serious Bangladesh human rights issues in ...
In 2020, Reporters Without Borders, a non-government organisations deducted to safeguard independent journalism, published Press Freedom Index, an annual report indicating decline in press freedom of Bangladesh. The country's ranking dropped to 151 out of 180 following the persistent violations of human rights, involving alleged prosecutions ...
v. t. e. The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted of two phases [2] [3] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [4]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) people in Bangladesh face widespread social and legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ people. [7] [8] Homosexuality is illegal under Bangladeshi law, which is inherited from the colonial British Indian government 's Section 377 of 1860. [9] [10] According to the law, the punishment ...
t. e. Censorship in Bangladesh refers to the government censorship of the press and infringement of freedom of speech. Article 39 of the constitution of Bangladesh protects free speech. [1] According to Human Rights Watch, the government of Bangladesh is using sophisticated equipment to block websites critical of the government and carrying out ...
The 2020 Bangladeshi protests were protests by hundreds of thousands of protesters against France, [1] [2] government mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and rape. Protests in Bangladesh erupted on 7 October after a video of a group of men attacking, stripping, and assaulting a woman went viral, Human Rights Watch said.
The plan was pushed back following criticism by human rights activists and the UNHCR. Between October and November 2016, about 65,000 Rohingya refugees arrived from Myanmar. The government of Bangladesh decided to revive the relocation plan. Bhasan Char submerges during high tide and was formed in the 2000s by sediments from the Meghna River.
A mother with a photo of her son who became a victim of forced disappearance in 2013 (image by VOA) Enforced disappearances in Bangladesh are cases in which the Government of Bangladesh directly or indirectly kidnaps people and holds them incommunicado. [1] According to a Dhaka-based human rights group Odhikar, at least 402 people have become ...