Disabilities, Migrant Workers’ Rights,
Protection of Religious Minorities, Child
Labour and Anti-Trafficking, and the
Committee for Protection of Rights for
Ethnic Groups and Economic Social and
Cultural Rights. Committees started
operation since 2011 under the umbrella
of NHRC and contributed to promoting
respect for human rights by addressing
the needs of specific groups of human
rights violations. The committees are
rigorously working for better promotion
and protection of rights of children,
autistic
children,
women,
migrant
workers, garment workers’, disadvantage
community and rights of the minority
groups.
rural and urban areas.Many victims still do
not have access to law and order agencies.
To this end, NHRC published several
colorful
posters
and
informational
materials, which were disseminated to
local NGOs at the grass-roots level who is
working with human rights issues so as to
respond to that gap to a certain extent.
These materials contain information about
human rights organizations, government
officials, civil society organizations, human
rights advocates, police stations in order
to make sure that these entities can be
contacted about any incidence of human
rights violations.
Visiting Prison, Orphanage,
Correctional Centre, Hospitals
The NHRC has built a strong partnership
with
local
NGOs,
private
sector,
international
non-governmental
organizations (INGOs) and other civil
society
organizations
(CSOs).
This
partnership
and
MoU
helped
the
commission to develop and implement
human rights awareness programs to build
the capacity of human rights defenders,
government officials, judges, police, NGOs
representatives to address the human
rights violation cases,
Child
Over the last five years, the NHRC
Chairman and Fulltime Member visited
many prisons, orphanages, hospitals and
Juvenile
Development
Centers.
For
instance, the Chairman made several
recommendations to the Government.
Following a serious incidence in Tongi
Development Centre and also in Jessore
Child
Development
Centreby
the
detainees, the NHRC team, led by the
NHRC Full Time Member, visited Tongi and
Jessore Child Development Centre and on
investigation
made
specific
recommendations to take action against
the alleged staff and to create a better
living environment for the inmates. As a
response, the Government took prompt
actions in regards to ensure better
environment and took disciplinary actions
against some of the staff and officers, who
were found guilty for their negligence,
which eventually has changed the quality
of the management of those centre.
NHRC Gender Concerns
The Commission is extending its effort in
ensuring gender-responsive human rights
efforts as women and girls of all ages in
Enhancing Partnership
The primary results of these partnerships
have been to broaden the NHRC’s scope
and reach. The partnerships also helped
the NHRC to increase its outreach at
grassroots level for the purpose of raising
public awareness and education on human
rights.
Research and Policy Development
The Commission conducted high-quality,
human rights-based analyses of legislative
proposals, draft laws & existing legislation
and administrative practices, with regard
to the country’s obligations under
international human rights conventions,
and to provide high quality policy advice to
Government on human rights matters.
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