Civil society in Bangladesh: If the treatment of Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus is any indication, Bangladesh’s independent civil society is currently in great peril. Over the last year, human rights defenders, demonstrators, and dissenters have been met with harassment, physical aggression, detainment, and maltreatment by the authorities. Additionally, journalists who
UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet today discussed various aspects of human rights in Bangladesh including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, shrinking of media freedom and civil society. She also opined that there is no press freedom in Bangladesh.Â
European Union (EU) has stressed that a vibrant civil society is an important component of democracy and raised concerns on human rights situation in Bangladesh.