Staff Correspondent
Human Rights Forum Bangladesh’s member organisations on Sunday observed that the government should portray the ‘actual’ condition of people’s economic, social and cultural rights when it represents the country in the international arena.
Addressing a discussion held at CIRDAP auditorium in the capital, the forum members came up with such assessment prior to the review session of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, scheduled to be held in March 12-19 in Switzerland.
The forum comprising 20 rights-based organisations and development partners was drafting civil society’s perception on the ICESCR report.
Among the experts of the forum, lawyer Sultana Kamal said the development activities by the government were not ‘inclusive’, leaving groups of people deprived of resources they belonged to as the citizen of the country.
Transparency International Bangladesh’s executive director Iftekharuzzaman said that government should ensure a congenial atmosphere where people could exercise their rights.
‘Section 57 of the ICT act and many forms like this, were fearsome for the democracy practicing people,’ he said.
National Human Rights Commission chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque said despite improvement in many sectors, rights of workers, ethnic minorities and other marginal communities were still unattained. He said that there were dissimilarities in the government’ ESCR report submitted to the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ain O Shalish Kendra activist Tamanna Haque presented a draft of alternative report on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights in Bangladesh.
Chaired by ASK executive director Sheepa Hafiza, the discussion was also addressed by Hameeda Hossain, Zakir Hossain, Ranjan Karmakar, Sultan Uddin Ahmed, among others.
- Courtesy: New Age/Jan 29, 2018
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