Summary: General overview of Bangladesh's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national lawRatiied treaties, including the...
Summary: Information about institutions in Bangladesh that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
The National Human Rights Commission was established in 2008, but the Committee on the Rights of the Child has expressed concern about the...
Summary: Activists have accused the government of using the Enemy Property Act to seize indigenous land in the north of the country, as it allows the State to take over private property by declaring individual owners enemies of the State. [DINAJPUR...
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Summary: Millions of girls across the world end up as child brides, despite the practice being outlawed in many countries. But some girls are defying their families' attempts to marry them off.[4 October 2011] - Some 10 million girls a year are...
Summary: This toolkit is a handy guide and reference book for participants and others wanting to develop CRP tools and staff capacity for integrating CRP into their programmes both now and in the future. This how-to toolkit has lots of material,...
This new report by the Global Campaign for Education and RESULTS shows that millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, child labour, early child marriage, the threat of sexual violence, inadequate and poor-quality schools....
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 1386(XIV) of 20 November 1959
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person,...
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As Amnesty International (AI) releases its annual report on human rights, the world stands on the threshold of historic change. Courageous people are standing up and speaking out in the face of bullets, beatings,...
Summary: A 7-year-old boy was kidnapped by gang members, told he would be made to beg, and upon refusing, they hit the boy on the head with a brick, severed his penis and cut his throat. [DHAKA, 4 May 2011] – Deep scars crisscross...
