Another way of phrasing the Committee’s typology is in
terms of State roles rather than State obligations. In this way,
the obligations to respect, protect and fulfill suggest that the
State can play a negative role as perpetrator of a violation of
a right, and positive roles as enabler and a provider of the
subject of a right. A focus on the roles played by a State
emphasizes the implementation of rights. It also provides a
framework through which to analyse rights in a
disaggregated way.
The notion of indivisibility of human rights and their
universality make it almost absurd to erect any artificial glass
wall between civil and political rights on one hand and the
ESC rights on the other. Additionally, this unnecessary and illconceived debate creates an environment where in the
danger of diluting the significance and immediate nature of
the ESC rights looms large. The National Human Rights
Commission, Bangladesh (NHRC) deems its statutory
obligation to closely monitor and report back to the
government on the status of state compliance with
international human rights treaties and conventions at least
to the extent signed and ratified by Bangladesh. It is in this
connection that the NHRC has undertaken a project to
review the status of a number of international human rights
instruments ratified by Bangladesh. The first in this sequel
are compliance status reports on ICCPR, CAT, ICESCR,
CEDAW, Convention on the Rights of the Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) and an Analysis of decisions on Arrest and
Detention and Women Rights, etc. On the basis of these