'Capacity Building on Indigenous and
Tribal Peoples Issues, Rights and Good
Practice in Bangladesh'. Under this
project NHRC, Bangladesh has organized a
number of National Seminars on various
issues mostly covering the indigenous
peoples' issues. On 03 October 2012
'National Seminar on Universal Periodic
Review (UPR): Rights of the People of the
Chittagong Hill Tracts' in Dhaka where the
presence of various stakeholders were
highly commendable.
Later, on 22 January 2013, NHRC conducted
another important National seminar under
this project on 'The ILO Conventions
relating to Ethnic Minorities'. The line
Ministries (i.e. Ministry of CHT Affairs and
Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary
Affairs) actively participated in the seminar.
Memorandum of
Understanding between
National Human Rights
Commission, Bangladesh and
Oxfam
Training
The Memorandum of Understanding was
signed between the NHRC and Oxfam in
September, 2012 for the period of
September, 2012 to March, 2013. Under
this agreement NHRC and
Oxfam agreed to work together Table: 6
on 1) organizing national
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seminars on right to food and
women's rights; 2) publishing a
booklet on economic, social 1 Dhaka
and cultural rights from
Bangladesh perspective; and 3)
any other campaign advocacy 2 Cox's
Bazar
that commonly serve the vision
and mission of Oxfam and
NHRC where both parties are
willing to work jointly, such as
joining the proposed national
alliance on right to food as part 3 Cox's
Bazar
of the advisory body.
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UNHCR Project 2012 –way
forward
There had been a beginning of mutual
understanding and friendly relations
b e t we e n N at i o n a l H u m a n R i g ht s
Commission and UNHCR from the month of
May 2011. The activity of UNHCR project
moved forward by developing a mutual
agreement to achieve two specific goalsimprovement of the human rights and
protection of refugees residing in
Bangladesh and play important role to
attain legitimate rights of enclave dweller
as citizen of Bangladesh.
UNHCR Project started working in 2012 on
the basis of two different indicators Firstly, ensuring protection of refugees
residing in Bangladesh. Secondly, ensuring
citizen rights of enclave dwellers.
Indicator 1: Ensuring protection of
Refugees in Bangladesh
Human Rights Commission organized three
training programs with support of UNHCR.
To observe the contemporary adverse
situation of refugees a 3 members
inspection committee of National Human
UNHCR project and
cooperation of ElCOP
participants
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Border Guard,
Police, RAB
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lawyers
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Topic of discussion
Human Rights Law,
Convention
regarding refugees
Rules of human
behaviour about
UN refugees and
Protocol and
practical experiences
regarding refugees
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