• Advocacy on establishing rights
of the ethnic & religious
minorities (focusing on Land
Rights, Discrimination etc.)
• Advocacy on establishing rights
of ethnic minorities of CHTs
and plain land areas (focusing
on Land Rights, Discrimination
etc.)
• Advocacy on Rohingya Issue
• Advocacy
on
addressing
Terrorism and Extremism
• Advocacy on addressing Drug
Addiction,
Drug
Trade/
Trafficking etc.
• Advocacy
on
addressing
Migrant Workers’ Rights
• Advocacy
on
addressing
violence by LEAs (Torture,
Custodial Torture etc.)
• Advocacy
on
addressing
Climate Change, man-made and
natural
disasters
affecting
human rights
• Advocacy
on
addressing
Business and Human Rights
(occupational safety, workers’
rights, Trade Union Rights etc.)
• Advocacy on establishing rights
of the Elderly People
• Advocacy
on
establishing
Rights
of
Freedom
of
Expression
• Forming
Human
Rights
Protection Club which will
include student cabinet of
secondary and higher secondary
level in all upazilla and
representatives
of
Anti-Corruption Commission’s
“Satata Sangha” with the aim of
raising humanitarian values
from grass-root level to the
centre. Members of this club
will work as human rights
ambassadors.
1.4 Thematic Committee
The visionary goal of the National
Human Rights Commission is to
establish a broad-based human rights
culture in the country; and to reach that
goal NHRCB’s agenda necessarily
become many. NHRC has formed 12
thematic committees accordingly:
• Committee
to
advise
government on acts, treaties and
conventions on human rights
• Committee on Dalit, Hijra,
Religious, Ethnic, Non-citizen
and other excluded minorities’
rights
• Committee on Persons with
Disability and Autism
• Committee on Child Rights and
Child Labor
• Committee on Business &
Human Rights and CSR
(Corporate
Social
Responsibility)
• Committee on Climate Change,
Environment
and
Disaster
Management
• Committee on Migrant Worker’s
Rights and Anti Trafficking
• Committee on Respecting others
opinion with a view to create
moral values and awareness on
human rights
• Committee on CHT Affairs
• Committee on Elderly People’s
Rights
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