Abrar Hussain: Abrar Hussain: With several recommendations like ensuring fair polls and a safe, enabling environment for human rights defenders, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) recently adopted a draft report on Bangladesh’s human rights review. At its 17th meeting in Geneva on Thursday, the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review adopted the report on Bangladesh, reports UNB.
The United States suggested amendment to Bangladesh Labor Act and Export Processing Zone Labor Act to ensure the provisions on freedom of association conform to international labor standards. Germany suggested steps to conduct investigations and criminal prosecutions of human rights violations and abuses against human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and LGBTI. Japan recommended Bangladesh to ensure a free, fair and inclusive general election, with the full participation of all parties, and increase efforts to strengthen democracy. Meanwhile, Norway recommended that human rights defenders, journalists and civil society have a safe and enabling environment to operate freely without fear of reprisals.
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