- Category: Statements
AFAD condemns the imprisonment of two Bangladeshi journalists, Hasan Ali and Aslam Ali, due to charges under Section 57 of the repressive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Both are also human rights defenders. Hasan Ali is associated with AFAD member organization, Odhikar, and has published several reports on human rights violations in Bangladesh, including extra-judicial killings, torture, rape and enforced disappearances.
- Category: Statements
Manila, 10 May 2017 – The 3rd Cycle of the Universal Period Review (UPR) of the Philippines took place on May 8, 2017, in Palais de Nations, in Geneva.
The review process was led by a troika of three member States of the UN Human Rights Council, namely Paraguay, Switzerland, and Kenya.
- Category: Statements
May 4, 2017 - On the founding anniversary of the Citizens Alliance of North Korean Human Rights (NKHR), AFAD congratulates NKHR, its member organization in South Korea, for its invaluable role in supporting victims of human rights violations by North Korea.
- Category: Press Releases
Press Release
3rd May 2017
The last week of May every year is recognized internationally as the International Week of the Disappeared and is an opportunity to remember the disappeared, and acknowledge the struggle of their families. This year, tomorrow on 4th of May, India’s human rights record will be reviewed in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) under the “Universal Periodic Review” (UPR) system by which States subject themselves to a review - by other States - of their human rights record. Since 2006, when the UPR process began, India has been reviewed twice - 2008 and 2012 and 4 May 2017 is India’s third cycle of UPR.
- Category: Press Releases
17 April 2017
The District Court Kavrepalanchowk Convicts Three out of Four Army Officers Accused of Maina's Murder
Kathmandu: Today, after 13 years of legal battle, the District Court of Kavrepalanchok has convicted perpetrators involved in Maina's murder. The court has acquitted one of them, who is still serving the army. (For more detail of the case see, Maina Sunuwar: Separating Facts from Fiction, http://advocacyforum.org/downloads/pdf/publications/maina-english.pdf.)
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Five years have passed since former BNP lawmaker M. Ilias Ali disappeared without a trace, and the law enforcers have failed to find him. Ilias Ali was an Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the time of his disappearance, along with his chauffeur Mohammad Ansar on the night of April 17, 2012. Police later found his car near his home at Banani, Dhaka.
- Category: News
Five years after the disappearance and murder of garment worker union leader Aminul Islam, his killers have not been brought to justice.