building erected is an emerging
challenge for the Commission. The
Commission is advocating and
lobbying with the Government to this
end expecting an impending solution.
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
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mentioned
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
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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
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a view
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