The Government continued increasing
its effort and fund for education of
the disabled students. The National
Foundation for the Disabled Persons is
committed to providing education to
the autistic children. In cooperation with
private organizations, 55 schools have
been established for mentally disabled
children. In addition, 5 schools have
been established for blind children and 7
schools have been established for children
who cannot hear or speak a language. An
institution for mentally disabled children
has been established in Chittagong.
During 2013-14 Financial Year about
1.33 billion taka was distributed among
315,000 financially constrained disabled
persons.
In 2014, the Government of Bangladesh
continued its efforts to ensure
empowerment of women in all spheres of
public life. The ratio of men and women
in government service from first class
rank to 4th class rank rose up to 74.8:25.2.
The number of female judges serving the
Supreme Judiciary increased in 2014 - there
were 6 Judges in the High Court Division
and 1 Judge in the Appellate division. At
the same time, the proportion of female
members in the parliament increased by
20 per cent. In addition, a total number
of 1,509 women contested in 458 Upazila
Parishad elections. The number of enlisted
female voters was 47,747,010 and the ratio
of male and female voter is 50.37:49.63.
JAMAKON noted that by 2014, 48 out of the
72 clauses of the Accord have been fully
implemented, while 15 had been partially
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implemented and the remaining 9 were
under process of implementation. Two
thirds (up to 23) of the departments out of
the mandated 32 have been transferred to
the three CHT District Councils. 238 army
camps were withdrawn.
Despite notable progress as mentioned
above, JAMAKON observed that there
was frequent reporting on killing by the
law enforcement agency, disappearance,
medical malpractice, violence against
women, sexual assault and molestation
in 2014. In particular, the civil society and
NGOs repeatedly expressed their concern
regarding incidents of extra-judicial
killings (crossfire) and disappearances.
On the other hand, JAMAKON noted
numerous attacks on public transports
with firebombs (often dubbed as petrol
bomb) in early January in the name of
political activities. Because of such attacks,
hundreds of persons suffered serious
burn injuries; many died and many others
continue to endure a painful life as long as
they would live. While JAMAKON always
condemned political violence, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance
etc, it thinks that these issues deserve
more attention from the State.
After threadbare discussion
the
Commission approved Annual Work Plan
2014, supported by the development
partners and implemented its phase by
phase.