Despite working tirelessly for the promotion and protection of human rights in the country from inception in 2009, Global Alliance For National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) has given B Status to NHRCB. According to the organization NHRCB falls short of fulfilling the requirements mentioned in Paris Principal. Some provisions in the NHRC Act do not match with Paris Principal. NHRCB thinks that NHRC cannot be blamed for the Act. Although NHRC India has similar act like ours they got A status. On the other hand, Bangladesh got B status. This is discriminatory. The Commission wants to listen to the grievances and complaints of people with full potential. Maximum attention is employed to the disposal of complaints but, as a matter of fact, due to shortage of man-power all the complaints cannot be handled in a given time. Moreover, despite considerable IT-related improvement e.g. e-Filing the Complaint Management System of the Commission still requires to be made fully automated and digitally activated. It is expected that within next year we will see the developments in this regard. As per the second Five Year Strategic Plan (2016-2020) NHRCB has been working relentlessly to reduce discriminations from the society. To eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination NHRCB is conducting country-wide awareness raising campaigns. Moreover, NHRCB drives and leads necessary policy and legal reforms and wants to expedite those initiatives. The Draft Anti Discrimination Law is submitted for enactment with a view to curving discrimination against women and others but discriminatory stereotypes and harmful practices such as child marriage, forced marriage, polygamy etc remains in the society compromising the equal rights of women. To create a momentum in the minds of stakeholders and duty-bearers with regards to understanding the immediacy of an Anti-Discrimination Law and implementing all other relevant legislations is a great challenge. Challenge part in the thematic area includes studies on situations of the minorities along with their right to land, protection of rights of the ethnic minorities, implementation of the Peace Accord in CHT, rights of women, children and persons with disabilities vis-à-vis implementation of policies and legislations, labor rights including ILO convention, CBA rights, EPZ law, ensuring universal education and of course the Rohingya issue giving rise to many humanitarian crises. Collection of authentic data on different thematic issues is also to be considered as a great challenge. 74 | Annual Report 2022 : National Human Rights Commission

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