• Committee on Violence against
Women
• Committee
on
Social, Cultural,
Political Rights
Economic,
Civil and
1.5 Functions and strategies
The
National
Human
Rights
Commission follows its second
Five-Year Strategic Plan (2016-2020)
to operationalize its functions. An
annual action plan now called the
Annual Performance Agreement
(APA) is made beforehand to be
performed within a financial year (July
to June). Activities are included in the
APA as per the priority of the Strategic
Plan
and
considering
the
contemporary human rights outlook
and incidental demands of the time.
NHRCB’s functions include but are
not limited to the following:
• Identifying and prioritizing the
issues on human rights; (through
media
report,
Global
comparative study, reports of
different internationally reputed
organizations and citizens’
feedback etc.)
• Studying,
analyzing,
and
monitoring on human rights
situation;
• Collecting and preserving data
on different human rights issues;
• Raising protest against human
rights violations including
disappearance,
harassment,
unlawful arrest by police, torture
in custodies etc.
• Conducting
enquiries
and
investigations as part of its legal
mandate;
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• Taking cognizance suo moto on
sensational violations of human
rights;
• Acting as party to certain cases
in favor of the victims in the
court;
• Adopting
mediation
and
reconciliation to deliver human
rights services through mutually
acceptable solutions;
• Providing counseling and legal
aid to the victims and vulnerable
groups;
• Initiating field visits and
Fact-Finding Missions to the
affected and, or vulnerable
places including places of
occurrences of violation of
rights;
• Sending recommendations and
guidelines to the Government
and to other authorities to
improve human rights situation;
• Working on awareness building
and advocacy by arranging
workshop, seminar, roundtable
conferences etc.
• Collaborating with NGOs,
CSOs, donors, development
partners,
human
rights
defenders
and
other
organizations for establishing
human rights;
• Organizing training programs
for officers, members of law
enforcement agencies (LEAs),
lawyers and human rights
defenders including journalists
for promoting and protecting
human rights;
• Participating in the international