Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Phone: 880-2-8126134, 8126137, 8126047
Fax: 880-2-8126045
Email: mia@askbd.org
Legal Action | Rana Plaza Collapse and Court Hearing for Tazreen Garments. Click here for Writ Petition
ASK Statement | Ban of Political Activties
ASK is calling upon the Government to immediately lift this ban which is inconsistent with the Constitutional provisions.. Click here for statement
13 May 2013 | 1127 Bodies Recovered , 293 unidentified bodies, 66 still missing | Sultana Kamal and ASK Investigation team went to visit Ground zero and Adhabar Playground where families of the missing were told to give their DNA blood samples as the search on the site came to an end.
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ASK Concern | Political Violence and Clashes Observed on 5 May 2013
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Nari Shomabesh | Women’s groups in Bangladesh held a National Rally on 11 May 2012 to
oppose Hifazat-e Islam‘s 13 point Charter of demands that seek to deny gender equality in Bangladesh
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ASK Opinion | Enforcing Industrial Compliance Hameeda Hossain, Chairperson, ASK
”Even as we mourn the dead, whose poorly paid labour contributed to profits from Bangladesh’ export garments, it is time to question why the state has repeatedly ignored violation of laws, why regulatory mechanisms fail to monitor systemic failures, why political patronage confers impunity for corporate crimes.” Read more
Click Link for Spring News Bulletin 2013
 Why Enforced Disappearance cases Remain Unresolved Feature writer, Ananta Yusuf speaks to Nur Khan from ASK Investigation Read more |
Two students Abducted | Nabinagar
November 2012 | Follow Up
ASK investigated the abduction of two students by the RAB without court order or warrant Case summary Incident : 4th February 2012
Two women detained and Tortured | Kushtia
ASK investigating why a mother and daughter were arrested and tortured in police custody for nine days without court order. Case Hearing : 4th October 2012 Case summary
Body found after RAB Shootout Kushtia
Case summary and Video of latest victim involved in RAB Crossfire. Body of Local Outlaw was found bullet ridden after Rab Shootout.
September 2012
Female Assaulted in Public | Benapole
Case Summary and video ASK currently looking into why the perpetrators have not been charged after this woman had been assaulted through medieval humiliation practice.
Press Statement [Bengali] [English]
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| ASK demand that the Government should take immediate steps to stop using this toxic gas by considering the opinion of experts and give instruction to law enforcing agency to take peaceful action to stop any disorder in the movement. | |||||||||||
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| Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) Demands an Impartial Judicial Inquiry for Limon Hossain |
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| It has been 18 months, since Limon Hossain a 16 year old boy, college student, lost his leg due to a failed operation by the counter terrorism force, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)….. | |||||||||||
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High Court Directs Bangladesh Bank to Freeze Bank Accounts of Owners
15 May 2013 | Click Here
Writ Petion Filed | Rana Plaza Collapse
25 April 2013 | Click here
Writ Petition Filed – Insufficient Measures Taken by Government to Protect Minorities
April 2013 | Click here
Five Hundred Bangladeshi Nationals Repatriated
23 December 2012
Wednesday 12 February 2013, the Human Rights Forum in Bangladesh shared its findings with the diplomats in Dhaka.
Clink link for summary of event, to download report and see Video
14 – 16 March 2013 Human Rights Theatre Festival
For Programme schedule and flyer Click Here
Manobadhikar Nattor Parishad (MNP) Groups from Various Districts will be performing
Launch of Draft Universal Periodic Report (UPR) | 26 September 2012
On the 26th September 2012, the draft report was presented in an event facilitated by Human Rights Forum – Bangladesh in Dhaka.
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ASK – Ain o Salish Kendra, the Secreteriat for the Human Rights forum in Bangladesh – a coalition of 19 human rights and development organisations shared findings and stats from the report which is to be submitted as Universal Periodic Review report to the UN Human Rights Council in May 2013.
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