they must never deviate from the minimum acceptable standard of ‘rule of law, ‘due process of law’, and under no context whatsoever the ‘protector should turn into the perpetrator’ of the rights of the common citizens. Appreciation of the gravity of its role led the Commission to voice its concern whenever it came to know of any incident of extra-judicial killing, enforced disappearance, apparently arbitrary detention, custodial torture or custodial death. In of these events, JAMAKON demanded commission of inquiry and submission of report, and in applicable cases what kind of punishments has been awarded to those found guilty of violation of human rights. In majority of cases, the authority upon whom such pressure was put by the Commission was the Ministry of Home Affairs. Timely intervention by JAMAKON was crucial to saving, in many incidents, the life and liberty of the citizens and saved the concerned families from dire consequences. Significance of such successful interventions by JAMAKON cannot be underestimated, though we know for certain that there is no room for being complacent! It is hard truth that in order to build a society based on rule of law and culture of human rights we still need to walk a long path! 4. Probably it will not be inappropriate to say that the year 2015 will be remembered in the history of Bangladesh as a black chapter because of horrendous attacks on freedom of expression and exercise of free mind! It is however very striking that the main actors in infringements of freedoms of speech and expression were not state agencies but non-state actors like certain religious fundamentalist and extremist groups, terrorist and ultra-nationalist (fascist) forces. Even some comments made in the social media did not escape the wrath of these fundamentalist terrorist groups. As a result, young intellectuals with creative and imaginative minds, free thinkers with huge potentials even a-political social media activists fell victim to the inhuman, cruel and brutal attack by the fundamentalist quarters – a number of them were hacked to death merely for expressing their opinion! While JAMAKON made severe and unqualified critique of such heinous killings, demanded immediate arrest and prosecution of the culprits, it also made no secret of the frustration it experienced because viii JAMAKON of lack of immediate, non-compromising and stern response from the state agencies. JAMAKON accused the concerned state agencies (law enforcement agencies, intelligence services etc.) of inefficiency, indifference and callousness. In each of these incidents of attack and murder, the Commission Chairman sent DO Letter to the Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs. Likewise, JAMAKON also was vigilant so that the state can not infringe or squeeze the freedom of speech and expression. On this context, the Commission arranged wide consultations on the proposed ICT Act both in-house and also with participation of different stakeholders and made concrete recommendations to the government. 5. In line with the experience of the bygone years, in 2015 too JAMAKON conducted a number of original research projects. Findings and recommendations emanating from these research projects helped the Commission to prepare its Annual Work Plan which is now being implemented. These research findings have strengthened the Commission’s approach to address Corporate Social Responsibility as Corporate Human Rights Responsibility and enabled JAMAKON to engage more pro-actively with FBCCI, BGMEA, Trade Unions, Ministry of Labour, and Foreign Buying Companies etc. and take initiatives to protect and promote the rights of the garment factory workers, especially female workers. Various recommendations and suggestions have been made to the concerned bodies. Establishment of a ‘Research Cell’ within JAMAKON is now a demand of time. I strongly believe that if more qualified researchers are employed in the Commission, their research finding will demonstrate the fragility, futility and hollowness of many “Human Rights Report’ on Bangladesh prepared and disseminated by a number of internationally reputed(?) Human Rights Organizations! 6. In 2015, owing to its multidimensional activities JAMAKON was praised and appreciated at the international level as well. Throughout the year, JAMAKON’s presence in the media was very clearly visible. Visits to hospitals, prisons, Child Development Centres, Orphanages, Health Clinics, Maternity Centres, Educational institutions etc. helped raise awareness among all stakeholders leading to improvement in the service delivery to the