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The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched the annual human rights situation report on Bangladesh for the year 2011. The prevailing situation appears to be much worse than what has been documented by the AHRC and included in the report. A finalised printed version of the report will be available by the end of the year.
Sadly, the AHRC has to reiterate that the incidents of enforced disappearance, custodial torture, extrajudicial killings, secret killings, illegal arrest, arbitrary detention and fabricating charges against persons by State agents continue and even set new records in terms of the gravity of the problems. The judicial institutions were found engaged in keeping and hunting lucrative jobs, and hardly dare to provide an effective sustainable remedy against State-sponsored abuses. The institutions provisioned for registering complaints, prosecuting the perpetrators and holding a fair trial for ensuring justice do not function at all. (...)

The article:
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-194-2011

The Report:
http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2011/AHRC-SPR-003-2011/view/

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Video on situation of child workers, govt. efforts to stop children under 14 working by 2015:

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1010050

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Human rights in Bangladesh:
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/bangladesh
http://www.hrw.org/asia/bangladesh
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/bangladesh/report-2011

Basic Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh

Passato...prossimo:
https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3880:bangladesh-women-on-the-brink&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58