160th Hotline Newsletter Apr.-May, 2009

Hotline Newsletter
(Bi-monthly Newsletter)
Issue 160th                                                                                                                April-May 2009 
Editorial
Bodies of Migrant Workers : Duty of the State
Over the past few months hundreds of dead bodies of thee Bangladeshi workers have return to the country. During the more than a decade thousands of Bangladeshi youths either faced problems in going abroad for seeking better jobs of have been forced to […]

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159th Issue of HL Newsletter- Feb.-Mar. 2009

Hotline Newsletter
(Bi-monthly Newsletter)
Issue 159th                                                                                                        Feb.-Mar., 2009
Editorial
BDR Mutiny and its continued effect
 The big news of February 25-26 was the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny at the Pilkhana Headquarters in Dhaka. Bangladesh Rifles are Border guards. They killed at least 74 of their officer, including BDR jawans and some civil personnel. There are about 45,000 personnel in BDR […]

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158th Issue of HL Newsletter Dec.08-Jan.09

Hotline Newsletter
(Bi-monthly Newsletter)
158th Issue                                                                                                         Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009 
Editorial
Post-election reaction : advise for the government
The parliamentary election is already one month in the past. Hence we can get a very good idea from the reactions of the government and the opposition of the direction that national politics will head in the future - just the way it […]

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UA on torture and ill-treatment in India

Hotline Human Rights Bangladesh
Box-5, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
To:      Shri Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Room number 152, South Block,
New Delhi
Subj.: Express concerns over the torture and ill-treatment including rape and request for an impartial investigation to bring out the truth
Dear Sir,
  Hotlie HumanRights Bangladesh has been informed by Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a member […]

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