advancement in the sphere of
economic, social and cultural rights
although expected improvement in the
sphere of civil and political rights is
yet to be achieved. This chapter
highlights issue based presentation of
the country’s human rights situation of
2021
e.g.
Rohingya
crisis,
extrajudicial killings, freedom of
expression, death & torture in custody,
violence against women & rape,
violence against children, right of
dalit, hijra, PWDs and other excluded
minorities.
Chapter
03:
Human
Rights
Protection
by
Complaint
Management
In this chapter, complaints on human
rights violation and inquiry activities
are discussed. Specific information
based on complaints and inquiry
activities of the Commission of one
decade are mentioned here.
Actually due to mass awareness on
NHRC’s activities the number of
complaints and their disposal rate have
increased in the last few years.
There are specific form for lodging
complaint in NHRC. Besides,
complaints can be lodged by post,
e-mail, telephone, fax and helpline
16108. Besides, hon’ble Chairman has
given instruction to take suo moto
complaints after seeing media reports
on human rights violation and suo
moto
complaints
are
taken
accordingly.
From reports published in newspaper,
online news agencies NHRC officials
are monitoring human rights violation
reports daily. From 16 newspapers
22
monthly/ annual human rights
situation monitoring report is being
prepared.
Among 1271 complaints including
those of previous years, NHRC
disposed 972 in 2021. Remaining
pending complaints include 02 of
2012, 07 of 2014, 04 of 2015, 07 of
2016, 13 of 2017, 22 of 2018, 35 of
2019, 38 of 2020 and 164 of 2021.
This year, the NHRC representatives
led by hon’ble Chairman visited
Sylhet, Sunamganj and Mymensingh
Jails.
As
per
the
NHRC’s
recommendation after the visit, the
Security Services Division took
several activities for improving the
condition of prisoners.
Chapter 04: Remarkable activities
of NHRC in 2021
This chapter discusses the institutional
capacities of the Commission in terms
of maintaining responsibilities in
accordance with NHRC Act 2009.
Creating awareness on human rights is
one of the core duties of the
Commission.
Some of the remarkable activities of
NHRC include launching human
rights scholarships, online human
rights course, handing over the draft
Sexual Harassment Prevention and
Protection Act to hon’ble Minister of
Ministry of Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs. This year eassy
and quiz competition on “Liberation
war, Independence and Humane
Values” participated by students of
class 09-10 and 11-12 was held around
the country. For mass publicity about
the competition advertisement was
published in widely published