newspapers and electronic media. More than 1.5 lac students took part spontaneously. Besides, on the occasion of celebrating human rights day NHRC arranged rally around the country. NHRC participated in the online national and international seminars and exchanged views on human rights situation and way forward. In these seminars, NHRC called on international community to come forward for resolving Rohingya crisis. In accordance with the ideas generated in these meetings Commission is working for upholding human rights and specifying its future actions. The brief discussion of this can be found in this chapter. Chapter 05: Commission’s Present Challenges & Way Forward In this chapter, Commission’s challenges along with successes have been discussed. Huge expectation has been created through the Commission’s implemented activities in 2021. Besides, Commission has created many human rights defenders who will play strong role in protecting human rights and preventing human rights violation in future. Despite lots of success Commission is facing many challenges. One among these is NHRC Act itself. It is important to amend this act according to Paris Principles to make the Commission effective and independent. Other than these, there are shortages of logistics and personnel power. Commission thinks that, it is very difficult to protect human rights in a populous country like Bangladesh as there are various religions, languages and ethnic groups. NHRC is trying to overcome the challenges with its limited resources in coordination with related stakeholders. The Commission believes that through this report hon’ble President of the Republic, government, development partners, stakeholders will get a clear and overall idea about the achievements of the Commission in 2021. In addition, they will know about future plan of the Commission. National Human Rights Commission Annual Report 2021 23