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<strong>Third</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Fourth</strong> <strong>Periodic</strong> <strong>Report</strong> there are a shortage of appropriate information, the access to information is generally low in the country, significantly low to the poorer <strong>and</strong> marginalized people, children in particular. However, some progress has been achieved in the recent years following implementation of a host of activities/programmes. Bangladesh Betar (Radio) broadcasts regular programmes for children <strong>and</strong> women. Messages in the forms of jingles, songs, short-dramas <strong>and</strong> discussions are disseminated during special events such as the World TB Day, National Nutrition Week, Safe Motherhood Day, Breastfeeding Week, Meena Day <strong>and</strong> CRC Week. It also carries public service spots on health, hygiene, education, social advancement related messages. The DMC continues to work in the field. It has been using community-based mobilisation activities like courtyard meetings, films <strong>and</strong> cultural shows on birth registration, arsenic mitigation <strong>and</strong> EPI. PIB continues to train print media journalists <strong>and</strong> gear up feature service to promote rights-based reporting on children <strong>and</strong> women issues. DFP produced two short films on birth registration <strong>and</strong> arsenic contamination of water, to help raise awareness on these two important development issues. PID took lead in organising press briefings during a regional conference on sanitation to facilitate media's active involvement. It published a book with compilation of joint PID-UNCEF features in national dailies. PID also gave cartoons a new dimension by incorporating important messages on child marriage. NIMCO continued its training activities on various child rights issues for electronic media personnel. The issue of HIV&AIDS received wider media attention in recent years. Two roundtables on HIV&AIDS prevention were arranged with two leading daily newspapers. The roundtables culminated in the publication of one full-page spread each by both papers on World AIDS Day featuring salient points of the discussion. Another roundtable with a leading daily newspaper was conducted on indoor air pollution. Bangladesh launched a big campaign relating to South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) in 2004. Media support included workshops, briefing <strong>and</strong> follow-up resulting in overwhelming media coverage on this regional event that brought together nine South Asian countries. The workshop on Early Childhood Development (ECD) brought young journalists from various media to workout innovative <strong>and</strong> creative strategies for promotion of ECD. Another workshop on Meena Initiative brought useful suggestions from experts on the field for promotion of new <strong>and</strong> emerging messages on child development issues. The State of the World's Children <strong>Report</strong> 2006 was launched nationwide. The launch was done in a festive manner participated by 150 children. Children representing the theme of the report, the invisible <strong>and</strong> the excluded shared their real life experience at the event. There are currently 68 Government public libraries in Bangladesh <strong>and</strong> hundreds of non-government public libraries. The Government libraries are located in all districts <strong>and</strong> divisional head quarters. The National Public Library <strong>and</strong> Chittagong Divisional Public Library have separate children's sections; other Government Public Libraries have a children's corner within the main reading room. Community libraries exist in cities <strong>and</strong> towns around the country. Children's corners have been established in 25 community development libraries around the country under a UNICEF-supported pilot project. A leading book-reading <strong>and</strong> library focused NGO has set up a central library at Dhaka <strong>and</strong> 28 mobile Library Units across 42 districts. In enrolling readers, children are given priority in these mobile libraries. In Bangladesh, it should be mentioned, regulation exists in relation to publications <strong>and</strong> censorship on films for protecting the citizens against harmful information <strong>and</strong> materials. Common grounds for censoring or banning 42
Convention on the Rights of the Child films <strong>and</strong> publications include obscenity <strong>and</strong> offence to religious sentiment. There is no restriction on access to the Internet. Satellite Television Channels are operating in the country with minimum regulations. 4.9 The right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including corporal punishment The Penal Code, 1860 contains a number of different sections which protect individuals against torture <strong>and</strong> other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Constitution guarantees protection of all citizens against torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment. Children are however, subjected to torture <strong>and</strong> physical punishment. Child beating is practiced to discipline children in the family, schools, work place <strong>and</strong> religious institutions <strong>and</strong> in village salish (mediation). However this is being decreased since 2000 as reflected in Consultation Meetings on this <strong>Report</strong>. The Government is fully aware of the problem <strong>and</strong> taking necessary measures through different means to overcome the situation. Motivational training is provided to teachers, police, judges <strong>and</strong> others concerned. Awareness creation programme with the support of NGOs for parents/guardians <strong>and</strong> communities are also undertaken. Rape <strong>and</strong> sexual assaults are committed against young women <strong>and</strong> girls. Issues related to rape <strong>and</strong> sexual assault are the difficulties of arranging a timely medical examination, the production of witnesses, receiving community support, <strong>and</strong> dealing with social stigma, which in turn discourages reporting of the crime. Bangladesh Health <strong>and</strong> Injury Survey (BHIS), 2003 reveals that suicide is a problem in the country, particularly for children ages 15 to 17. One particular form of violence is acid attacks which have traumatic consequences, scarring the victims physically <strong>and</strong> damaging psychologically <strong>and</strong> socially for life. Acid attacks are mainly a crime against children <strong>and</strong> young women, although more recently, boys <strong>and</strong> young men have also been targets of this crime. The overwhelming majority of the victims are young women. The enactment of The Acid Control Act, 2002 <strong>and</strong> The Acid Crimes Prevention Act, 2002 helps deal with the issue. The One-Stop-Crisis Centres in Dhaka <strong>and</strong> other divisional head quarters have been introduced together with a Hotline System for women vulnerable to violence. Some NGOs have undertaken programmes on prevention <strong>and</strong> post attack services for the victims <strong>and</strong> also awareness building activities. One national daily is also working for the purpose throughout the country with special focus on awareness creation <strong>and</strong> supporting the victims towards social integration. There have been some positive outcomes in the juvenile justice area. For instance, training materials on juvenile justice were prepared <strong>and</strong> translated from English to Bangla, which include the H<strong>and</strong> Book for Police <strong>and</strong> Bench Books for Judges <strong>and</strong> Magistrates on Children in contact with the Juvenile Justice System. Moreover, the international instruments on juvenile justice <strong>and</strong> non custodial measures, also translated from English to Bangla, have been printed for wider dissemination. All these materials on juvenile justice are intended to be used for building capacity of the key stakeholders in juvenile justice. Several projects deal with issues, such as capacity building of training institutes for the police, magistrates <strong>and</strong> judges <strong>and</strong> concerned ministries. Training workshops on modern trends in juvenile justice are often organized for the judges, magistrates, police lawyers <strong>and</strong> other concern persons. With government support several NGOs are working to mitigate local disputes <strong>and</strong> modernizing Salish system. This results in decrease in torture <strong>and</strong> other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the rural communities. 43
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