Foreign minister Dipu Moni has said that government’s achievements in the human rights have been ‘widely overshadowed’ by the last few months’ violence ‘carried out by Jamaat-Shibir and its alliances.’
“Our achievements in the last four years can be matched with no other four years period,” she said at the inauguration of a ‘mock Universal Periodic Review of UN Human Rights Council’ on human rights issues in Dhaka Tuesday.
She said that supporters of Jamaat and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir had been carrying out ‘systematic, anti-state’ attacks in a ‘targeted manner’ following the verdicts by the International Crimes Tribunals against their leaders.
The mock review has been organised just weeks before the Apr 29 second review of the human rights status of the UN member states in Geneva.
The Foreign Minister said during her government’s tenure they had passed 196 laws, most of which she said ‘have human rights applications’.
She said due to the ‘disciplinary actions’ taken against law-enforcing personnel ‘killings during police operations have significantly come down’.
Moni listed her government’s measures in the areas of establishing women’s, children’s and minorities’ rights and said that they set up an ‘independent’ National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to look into the human rights issues.
However, a member of the NHRC Kazi Rezaul Huq said despite achievements in establishing human rights, ‘still there are extra-judicial killings, disappearance and custodial deaths’ in Bangladesh.
Appreciating government’s effort, UNDP’s Resident Coordinator Neal Walker said the government should ensure the ‘proper’ implementation of the laws and policies that have been enacted and adopted to improve the human rights situation.
The UN’s universal periodic review is a process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN member states.
The Bangladesh government submitted its report before the UN in January while NHRC and civil society groups have presented two separate reports for the state-driven process under the auspices of the Human Rights Council.
The review provides the opportunity for each state to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfill their human rights obligations.
NHRC organised the mock review bringing together all stakeholders with its chairman Mizanur Rahman in the chair.
She said that supporters of Jamaat and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir had been carrying out ‘systematic, anti-state’ attacks in a ‘targeted manner’ following the verdicts by the International Crimes Tribunals against their leaders.
The mock review has been organised just weeks before the Apr 29 second review of the human rights status of the UN member states in Geneva.
The Foreign Minister said during her government’s tenure they had passed 196 laws, most of which she said ‘have human rights applications’.
She said due to the ‘disciplinary actions’ taken against law-enforcing personnel ‘killings during police operations have significantly come down’.
Moni listed her government’s measures in the areas of establishing women’s, children’s and minorities’ rights and said that they set up an ‘independent’ National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to look into the human rights issues.
However, a member of the NHRC Kazi Rezaul Huq said despite achievements in establishing human rights, ‘still there are extra-judicial killings, disappearance and custodial deaths’ in Bangladesh.
Appreciating government’s effort, UNDP’s Resident Coordinator Neal Walker said the government should ensure the ‘proper’ implementation of the laws and policies that have been enacted and adopted to improve the human rights situation.
The UN’s universal periodic review is a process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN member states.
The Bangladesh government submitted its report before the UN in January while NHRC and civil society groups have presented two separate reports for the state-driven process under the auspices of the Human Rights Council.
The review provides the opportunity for each state to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfill their human rights obligations.
NHRC organised the mock review bringing together all stakeholders with its chairman Mizanur Rahman in the chair.
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