Calls for independent, transparent investigations into cases of alleged enforced disappearances and ratification of the much-discussed convention on disappearances got louder at this UPR.
Human rights in Bangladesh: Several human rights concerns including shrinking space for dissent, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and attacks on minority groups in Bangladesh have been highlighted at the review.
Pakistani genocide against Bengalis in 1971: As we ponder the significance of March 25, it is critical to ask ourselves whether the oppressive nature of the state has changed. Are practices such as extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, custodial deaths, and the systematic persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, as well as the structural killing of labourers,