Dialogue on Business Women's and Children's Rights
This has enabled the Commission to
exercise its legal mandate in overseeing any
proposed or existing legal instruments
through a human rights lens. The
recommendations to be incorporated are:
yDefinition of disability in line with the
pertinent international instruments
yPeriodic survey or census of persons
with disability etc.
yParticipation of the NGOs in decision
making process.
Guidelines on Custody
Management jointly with the
Police Reform Project (PRP)
and the Bangladesh National
Human Rights CommissionCapacity Development Project
(BNHRC-CDP) UNDP
The NHRC, jointly with the PRP and the
BNHRC-CDP, UNDP conducted workshops
in Dhaka, Jessore and Sylhet in the preparation of drafting Guidelines on Custody Management and shared the study findings on
landmark High Court judgments/directions
on Arrest and Detention, in the workshops.
The draft Guidelines on Custody Management will be shared with the Stakeholder
and then with the feedback it will be sent to
the concerned Ministry for adoption.
UPR and Consultation Process
The Universal Periodic review (UPR) is a
mechanism, established by the Human
Rights Council (HRC) in 2006, which aims to
improve the human rights situation in the
193 UN Member States. In Bangladesh the
NHRC took an initiative to organize a policy
dialogue with the Secretaries of different
Ministries to discuss the UPR implantation.
The National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC), Bangladesh, conducted a series of
consultations and meetings to ensure wide
stakeholder input into the Stakeholder Report and to ensure the credibility and reliability of the report. The NHRC developed a
UPR Action Plan and prepared a Road Map
for analysing and consulting on the process
on UPR implementation.
Policy Dialogue with Secretaries of
different Ministries
On 25 February, 2011, NHRC organized a
policy dialogue with the Secretaries of
different Ministries to discuss UPR
implementation and activities with regard
to the respective Ministries. In total,
twenty-four senior representatives from
the Ministries (Senior Secretary, Secretary,
and Joint Secretary) participated in the
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