the rights of every member of the society. JAMAKON has been continuously working
on raising awareness about human rights violations by state agencies/ authorities/
statutory bodies/ law enforcement agencies and etc. In the year 2014, JAMAKON sent
23 recommendations to different government authorities through Dummy Official (DO)
Letter. A few of the important DO letters and their subsequent outcomes are briefly
provided below:
JAMAKON’s Concern
Government Authority
To develop and adopt a Policy for the online newspapers
The Minister, Ministry of
in order to follow international standards and to uphold
Information. (On track)
diversity, plurality and neutrality
The Secretary, Cabinet
In the aftermath of a visit to the affected villages
Division. The Division
in the Rangamati District of CHT, JAMAKON made
had
forwarded
the
recommendations in order for restoring peace between
recommendations to the
the conflicting Bengalis and indigenous community
CHT Ministry. (On track)
Following the news that children were injured while
The Executive Engineer,
swimming across a canal at Baherchar, Keraniganj so as
Local
Government
to attend school; JAMAKON recommended for building a
Engineering Department.
bridge over the canal and approach road in between the
(On track)
school and the village
JAMAKON came to know that it was necessary to produce
copies of utility bills in order to get the national ID cards.
However, it is impossible to get utility bills for the slum Chief
Election
dwellers. Therefore, JAMAKON made recommendation to Commissioner. (On track)
make this provision optional so that there would not be
any discrimination
After a visit by the Chairperson of JAMAKON to the Safe Minister, Ministry of
Home at Rajshahi, JAMAKON recommended for providing Health
(treatment
treatment and other health services to the detainees
provided)
Report on Custodial Death
In view of incidents of extra-judicial killing and custodial deaths in Bangladesh, JAMAKON requested that it should receive report on every occurrence of extra-judicial killing/
custodial death from the person in charge of the concerned law enforcement agency
within 24 hours of such incident.
Media Monitoring and Digital Archive System for JAMAKON:
In order to monitor human rights situations in Bangladesh, make timely response any
urgent human rights issues as well as archive relevant news, JAMAKON ran a pilot project
for Media Monitoring and Digital Archive System from 2013 to October 2014. During the
aforesaid period, 40 media (including print and electronic media) and 15 newspapers
20