Torture in the name of treatment
Posted by International Bridges to Justice at Oct
Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users in China and across Southeast Asia are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence in the name of “treatment”, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released in July. International donors and United Nations […]
Symposium Grass root protection of minority rightson
Posted by Shahanur Islam at Mar
JusticeMakers Bangladesh – Advocate Shahanur Islam, Founding Secretary General Representing his newly established organization, JusticeMakers Bangladesh, Advocate Shahanur Islam discussed the organization’s target groups: ethnic, religious, social and sexual minorities, and victims of torture and extra‐judicial killings. Mr Islam mentioned key future goals to be: building a strong network for minorities in Bangladesh and building up the networking capacity […]
2010 JusticeMaker Shahanur Islam publishes flyer
Posted by Shahanur Islam at Jun
In preparation for a community information session that he will conduct in the near future, JM 2010 Shahanur Islam recently republished a brochure about human rights standards in Bangladesh. As the head of the Bangladesh Institute for Human Rights (BIHR), Shahanur first designed the brochure several months ago, in preparation for a door-to-door campaign to […]
Youth and Arbitrary Arrest in Colombia: Diego’s Story
Posted by Siobhan Riordan at May
The city of Medellín has a long and complicated history of conflict. Several of the problems that it still faces today are paramilitary control and militarization, the resulting armed political militias, territorial gang warfare, competition over lucrative narco-trafficking and public extortion operations, and poverty.
Shahanur Records Another Success in his Bid to Free Bangladesh from Torture
Posted by Shahanur Islam at Jan
In his continuing bid to end torture in Bangladesh, JusticeMaker Shahanur Islam Saikot, has offered legal aid to ethnic and racial minorities in and around Dhaka. His latest case is the story of Shila Mollick, a housewife tortured by the police for reporting a crime. On January 04, 2011 Justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury […]
