NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION participants. The NHRC formulated its own recommendations informed by the exchange and submitted a report to the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs to take immediate steps to implement the policy. 4 Bangladesh’s compliance with international human rights standards analyzed. In the policy arena, several evidence-based analysis reports have been drafted on Bangladesh’s legal instruments and their compliance with five core human rights instruments (ICCPR, CAT, ICESCR, CRC, and CEDAW). These analyses have strengthened t h e N H R C ’s o w n k n o w l e d g e a n d understanding of international human rights standards. In addition, the reports have enhanced the NHRC’s ability to influence policy level change on certain human rights issues by improving the level of evidencebased discourse in public debates. On the basis of these analyses, the NHRC is providing sound advice to the Government and Parliament on human rights matters which will assist them in taking appropriate measures to improve the human rights situation through ratification, domestication and review of national laws, as well as through institutional reforms. 47