•
take measures to end the de facto caste systems i.e., Dalit, Hijra, and ensure that
individuals from so-called lower casts have equal access to all rights guaranteed under
international human rights law;
•
protect the safety and security of persons belonging to religious minority groups and
ensure their right to f freedom of religion without any fear;
•
constitution of a transgender welfare board in order for the protection of their human
rights;
•
facilitate the process of indicating in the national identity card the gender identity of
transgender persons.
Rights of Persons with Disability (PWDs)
46.
The Commission welcomes accession to the Marrakesh Treaty (26 September
2022) which facilitates the production of specially adapted books for people with
blindness or visual impairments. The Commission prepared an action plan in light of the
Rights and Protection of Persons with Disabilities Act 2013 and sent recommendations to
the government to adopt a national action plan for persons with disability. Then in 2019,
the government adopted the National Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities.
47.
Individual complaints regarding the rights of persons with disability received by the
Commission during 2018-2022 are as follows:
Types of
Complaints
Received
Rights of
Persons with
Disabilities
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
03
07
04
07
06
48.
The Commission noted that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was
particularly severe on disabled persons. The Commission has persuaded the government
to enter into formal arrangements with other local and international stakeholders to
alleviate the impact of the pandemic on disabled persons. The Commission has issued
several recommendations to the government to improve disabled persons’ access to a
range of services such as healthcare, accessible information, the various needs of disabled
children, and access to public places. In order to enable disabled persons to appear in
public examinations, who are unable to write scripts without any external assistance, the
Commission has recommended the adoption of unified, integrated guidelines on using
scribes. The Commission is also collaborating with the government to improve digital
accessibility and protect the rights of those with visual impairments.
Rights of the Migrant Workers
49.
Bangladesh is one of the major migrant worker-sending countries across the world
and the foreign remittance sent by the migrant workers is the second largest source of foreign
currency which played a significant role for the socio-economic development of the country.
At present, 12 million Bangladeshi migrant workers are working in 174 countries in the
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