Another way of phrasing the Committee’s typology is in terms of State roles rather than State obligations. In this way, the obligations to respect, protect and fulfill suggest that the State can play a negative role as perpetrator of a violation of a right, and positive roles as enabler and a provider of the subject of a right. A focus on the roles played by a State emphasizes the implementation of rights. It also provides a framework through which to analyse rights in a disaggregated way. The notion of indivisibility of human rights and their universality make it almost absurd to erect any artificial glass wall between civil and political rights on one hand and the ESC rights on the other. Additionally, this unnecessary and illconceived debate creates an environment where in the danger of diluting the significance and immediate nature of the ESC rights looms large. The National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh (NHRC) deems its statutory obligation to closely monitor and report back to the government on the status of state compliance with international human rights treaties and conventions at least to the extent signed and ratified by Bangladesh. It is in this connection that the NHRC has undertaken a project to review the status of a number of international human rights instruments ratified by Bangladesh. The first in this sequel are compliance status reports on ICCPR, CAT, ICESCR, CEDAW, Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and an Analysis of decisions on Arrest and Detention and Women Rights, etc. On the basis of these