A state can criminalise enforced disappearance while preserving arrangements that make it difficult to prove the crime.

After all, a human rights commission with actual authority may create several administrative difficulties.

The government should revise the rights-related draft laws

If the draft law on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is passed in its current form, it will fail to create an independent rights watchdog, warned speakers at a discussion organised by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday.

Govt must enact a law that ensures its operational and financial independence.

A country that has lived through secret detention sites, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and the slaughter of July protesters does not strengthen its human rights architecture by reviving a weaker watchdog.

It has put a dent in public trust

The government presented wrong information in parliament to justify the repeal of NHRC-related ordinances, the “immediate past” commissioners of the National Human Rights Commission alleged yesterday.

Open letter based on misconceptions, says Asaduzzaman

This was the main cause of past failures.

The revision of the NHRC's legal basis marks a departure from past practice.

The government has drafted an ordinance to unshackle the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from a 15-year bar on probing members of the security forces.

The interim government should have made some headway by now.

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.