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“No Right to Live”
SummaryOn the morning of February 28, 2013, the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party called a strike to protest the death penalty handed down against its leader, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who had been...
View ArticleVideo: Deliberate Kneecapping of Detainees by Security Forces in Bangladesh
Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg. Victims explained that police shot them in custody and then falsely claimed that they...
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Bangladesh: Stop ‘Kneecapping’ Detainees
(New York) – Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Victims explained that...
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End Child Marriage
The FactsThe consequenes of child marriage are ruinous. Married girls face health risks—including death—due to early pregnancy. Also, they are usually forced to quit their education. They sink deeper...
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Bangladesh: End Arbitrary and Secret Arrests
(New York) – Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release three children of opposition leaders convicted of war crimes who were forcibly disappeared and have been illegally detained since August...
View ArticleBangladesh: New Law Will Choke Civil Society
(New York) – The Bangladesh parliament should repeal a new law regulating civil society organizations accepting foreign funds, Human Rights Watch said today. The new law subjects non-governmental...
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Bangladesh Should Accept, Protect Rohingya Refugees
“Of course I want to go back home,” an elderly woman, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, told me last year when I visited a camp in Teknaf, near the Bangladesh-Burma border. “But it’s not safe there, so I...
View ArticleHuge Step Backwards on Child Marriage in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s parliamentarians have a crucial responsibility ahead of them: kill a proposed law putting girls at greater risk of child marriage, or buckle under political pressure. On November 24, the...
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Bangladesh: Improve Protections for Migrant Domestic Workers
ExpandA migrant domestic worker watches over a child playing in the Magic Planet, City Centre Muscat, a shopping mall in Oman. © 2015 Rothna Begum/Human Rights Watch (London) – Bangladesh should...
View ArticleHRW: The Investigators
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country...
View ArticleRohingya Tell Horror Stories of Rape, Killings by Burmese Army
The Burmese military has conducted a campaign of arson, killing and rape against ethnic Rohingya that has threatened the lives of thousands. Since the October 9, 2016 attacks by Rohingya militants on...
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Burma: Rohingya Recount Killings, Rape, and Arson
(New York) – The Burmese military has conducted a campaign of arson, killings, and rape against ethnic Rohingya that has threatened the lives of thousands more, Human Rights Watch said today. Refugees...
View Article“I Want to Live With My Head Held High”
SummaryIn recent years the government of Bangladesh has taken important steps toward acknowledging and protecting hijras, but the implementation of promising decrees and programs has exposed hijras to...
View ArticleBangladesh: Gender Recognition Process Spurs Abuse
(Dhaka, December 23, 2016) – Bangladesh’s steps in recent years to recognize hijras as a third legal gender are leading to further abuses due to widespread prejudice and lack of clear rights-based...
View ArticleBangladesh
Bangladesh witnessed a spate of violent attacks against secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists, foreigners, and members of religious minorities in 2016.On July 1, armed gunmen attacked the...
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Bangladesh: Disappearances, Clampdown on Critics
(New York) – The Bangladesh government clamped down on media and civil society and state authorities detained, maimed, killed, and disappeared members of the political opposition, Human Rights Watch...
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After Narayanganj verdict, Bangladesh should disband RAB
For years, Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been deployed by successive governments not only to fight crime, but often as an in-house death squad, leaving a string of extrajudicial...
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If You Don’t Want Child Brides in Bangladesh, Don’t Accept Them Here in...
But child marriage is legal in the UK—so why shouldn’t it be allowed here?”ExpandBibi, age 17, married at about age 11. After marrying, she was forced to quit school. Bibi said she returned to live...
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Burma: Security Forces Raped Rohingya Women, Girls
(New York) – Burmese government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against ethnic Rohingya women and girls as young as 13 during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016,...
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Bangladesh: Reject Rohingya Refugee Relocation Plan
(New York) – The Bangladeshi government should immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited, undeveloped coastal island, Human Rights Watch said today. Relocating the...
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