1.3 Agenda The visionary goal of the National Human Rights Commission is to establish a broad-based human rights culture in the country; and to reach that goal NHRCB’s agenda necessarily become many. Main agenda are described below: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Advocacy on establishing the rights of poor, weak, marginalized and vulnerable people Advocacy on establishing rights of women (ensuring empowerment, removing abuse, torture, discrimination, sexual harassment, gender based violence, trafficking etc.) Advocacy on establishing child rights (combating early and forced marriage, eve-teasing, rape, sexual harassment, dropouts from school, child labor, trafficking etc.) Advocacy on establishing rights of persons with disabilities Advocacy on establishing rights of the Third Gender and excluded minorities Advocacy on establishing rights of the ethnic & religious minorities (focusing on Land Rights, Discrimination etc.) Advocacy on establishing rights of ethnic minorities of CHTs and plain land areas (focusing on Land Rights, Discrimination etc.) Advocacy on Rohingya Issue Advocacy on addressing Terrorism and Extremism Advocacy on addressing Drug Addiction, Drug Trade/ Trafficking etc. Advocacy on addressing Migrant Workers’ Rights Advocacy on addressing violence by LEAs (Torture, Custodial Torture etc.) Advocacy on addressing Climate Change, man-made and natural disasters affecting human rights Advocacy on addressing Business and Human Rights (occupational safety, workers’ rights, Trade Union Rights etc.) Advocacy on establishing rights of the Elderly People Advocacy on establishing Rights of Freedom of Expression Forming Human Rights Protection Club which will include student cabinet of secondary and higher secondary level in all upazilla and representatives of Anti-Corruption Commission’s “Satata Sangha” with the aim of raising humane vales from root to center. Members of this club will work as human rights ambassadors. 1.4 Thematic Committee The visionary goal of the National Human Rights Commission is to establish a broad-based human rights culture in the country; and to reach that goal NHRCB’s agenda necessarily become many. NHRC has formed 12 thematic committees accordingly: • • • • • • • • • • • • Committee to advise government on acts, treaties and conventions on human rights Committee on Dalit, Hijra, Religious, Ethnic, Non-citizen and other excluded minorities’ rights Committee on Persons with Disability and Autism Committee on Child Rights and Child Labor Committee on Business & Human Rights and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Committee on Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Management Committee on Migrant Worker’s Rights and Anti Trafficking Committee on Respecting others opinion with a view to create moral values and awareness on human rights Committee on CHT Affairs Committee on Elderly People’s Rights Committee on Violence against Women Committee on Economic, Social, Cultural, Civil and Political Rights 14