BANGLADESH: Criminal justice through the prism of capital ... - FIDH

Bolster the National Human Rights Commission:
FIDH urges the Parliament to approve further allocation of funds for staff improvement and
hiring within the NHRC in order to maintain the Commission’s effectiveness and independence
without any hindrance from the government.
Treaty Ratification:
Bangladesh must withdraw its reservation to Article 14(1) of the CAT and to ratify the following
international human rights instruments:
– Optional Protocol to the ICESCR (1966), allowing individual complaints from citizens of
member states
– Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (1966), allowing individual complaints from citizens of
member states
– 2 nd Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (1989)
– Optional Protocol to the CAT (2002), allowing site visits to the country and requiring establishment
of National Preventive Mechanisms.
– International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
(2006)
– Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers & Members of Their
Families (1990)
To the international community
– Third states are invited to raise the issues of concern addressed in this report and echo the
afore-mentioned recommendations in the framework of their bilateral meetings with the
government of Bangladesh at all levels.
– Support civil society initiatives in favour of abolition in Bangladesh
– Provide technical assistance in the field of criminal investigation, in particular concerning
forensic and ballistic expertise and others methods that would allow to rely less systematically
on confessions that are often obtained under duress.
– To support efforts to develop professional and public human rights education and judicial
and prosecutorial training
– to condition its cooperation with the police and other forces of Bangladesh (like the RAB)
to concrete progress in the field of the fight against impunity for extrajudicial killings and
torture and to ensure transparency and accountability in all the actions undertaken.
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