As the Chair of the event, Prof. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission hoped that the law could help stop the outburst of hatred because of one's identity. In his speech, the JAMAKON chairman stressed on developing the outlook of people from all walks of life to preserve the rights of marginalized people besides the enactment of Discrimination Elimination Law. ‘It is difficult to abolish discrimination only enacting the law, so we all should develop our minds’ he said. The objective of the National Consultation was to analyze and collect input from stakeholders of the draft legislation on anti-discrimination and prepare a set of February, 2013 and the National Consultation on Equal Opportunities for all: Towards an Anti-discrimination Legislation on 30th March, 2014. Participants’ recommendations called for preparation of a list of marginalized and vulnerable groups, collection of disaggregated data on those groups in the future census, considering the Rights and Protection of the Persons with Disabilities Act 2013 including ‘disability’ as ground for discrimination, addressing the issue of outsourcing the job of the sweepers (Dalits), and inclusion of a provision for a sanction for breach, assessing options for alternative dispute resolution, repealing any conflicting Professor Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Chairman, JAMAKON delivering his speech recommendations on the areas which need amending, to learn about the status of the draft legislation on anti-discrimination submitted to the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs last year and to expedite the process of enacting the draft legislation on anti-discrimination. This was a follow-up event after the National Seminar on ‘Protecting the Rights of Dalits as the Most Vulnerable Marginalised Communities in Bangladesh’ on 2nd provisions/laws with the proposed legislation, justification of mobile court under the proposed Act, and reconsidering if the proposed legislation will provide a jurisdiction to the Commission for receiving complaints and also investigations. The speakers added importance of caution in use of words in the proposed law so as not to offend any community and of the inclusion of HIV patients who fail to receive treatment from doctors. 17 JAMAKON