Annual Report 2016
ence etc as part of human rights campaigns,
the prime target being awareness building
and the ultimate target falling in line with the
visionary destination of NHRC, i.e. a stable
human rights culture and a society free from
violations of human rights and where equality, human dignity and social justice will
prevail.
International and Regional Cooperation:
NHRC participates in international Human
Rights programs and works together with
international and regional human rights
organizations in greater Human Rights platform.
Partnership: NHRC partners with Civil
Societies, NGOs, Development Agencies,
Donors, Human Rights activists, GANHRI,
APF, NHRIs and many other stakeholders on
the issues of Human Rights.
Drafting Law: NHRC has taken initiatives
to frame an Anti Discrimination Law expecting that the excluded minorities and marginalized sections of people will not suffer
discrimination in their day-to-day life after
the enactment of this Act; the draft law has
been prepared to be sent to the Ministry of
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs with
the hope that the enactment will take place as
quick as possible. It has also taken in hand
drafting the Rule against Child Marriage
Restraint Act 2017.
Universal Periodic Review (UPR): NHRC
has furnished its list of recommendations
and has forwarded it to the government with
hope that government will take immediate
steps to implement those. In this context
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enactment of Anti Discrimination Law,
ensuring implementation of CHT Peace
Treaty to the full, withdrawal of reservations
from CEDAW Article-2 and 16 (1)/c and
elimination of child labor are to be resolved.
Training: NHRC has designed training for
both office staff and officers and the state
actors like police, and other civil society
actors like lawyers, human rights defenders,
volunteers and journalists etc. Training components include international human rights
and laws, humanistic approaches to be practiced by police and human rights defenders,
human rights system followed by UN etc.
Research: The reports of the research findings, by this time, have been edited and published in the form of a book. The research
subjects included in the book are the rights
and social position of women from Hindu
community, land problem in CHT- a 5 Year
Study by NHRC, right to food and healthmass expectation and the real life viewpoint,
education, health and CEDAW issues of
Dalit women, rehabilitation of trafficking
victims, prospects and risks of RMG sector
in Bangladesh etc.
Upholding International Convention:
NHRC upholds the provisions of all 8 Conventions of the UN but it follows the regime
that national legislation will prevail. Though
the government of Bangladesh has ratified
all 8 Conventions of the UN there are some
reservations; it is the responsibility of the
Government to harmonize the UN Conventions with the local legislations. CRC is
100% harmonized; but in case of CEDAW
articles-2 and 16.1(c) the provisions are still