AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

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ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS
The Bund AmiraKadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir

Press Release, 12 July 2018

For twenty-four years, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and its individual members and volunteers have been campaigning against the phenomenon of enforced or involuntary disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir, wherein more than 8000 people have disappeared since 1989. Today, JK SHRC passed a crucial order directing Senior Superintendent of Police of the SHRC police wing to hold an enquiry, if necessary, into 132 cases of disappearance in Banihal Tehsil (Ramban district, Jammu division) and 507 cases of disappearance in Baramulla and Bandipora districts (Kashmir division) and file a report within three months.

11 July 2010 - Today, AFAD remembers Redemptorist priest and social justice activist Fr. Rudy Romano with profound honor and respect on his 33rd year of enforced disappearance. Devoted to the poor and marginalized, Fr. Romano staunchly condemned the barefaced culture of impunity and violence during Ferdinand Marcos’ tyrannical regime. He wholeheartedly served the poor by dedicating his life toward the attainment of justice and peace, and sharing meaningful teachings centered on ‘conscience toward genuine freedom. On July 11, 1985, witnesses said that Fr. Romano was taken by military intelligence agents in Labangon, Cebu City, which was the last time he was publicly seen.

3 July 2018

Press Statement

Odhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificOdhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificattacks by the Chhatra League leaders have unleashed on students protesting for the reformationof the quota on government jobs, since 30 June 2018; along with the police barring protestorsfrom holding protest programmes on this issue, the police picking up a protestor of theMovement and disappearing him for one day - before showing him as arrested; and arrestinganother protestor and taking him into remand. Even though such attacks are being carried out onstudents from Dhaka University and other universities, Odhikar condemns the fact that theperpatrators have not been brought to justice and the government chooses to remain silentregarding this matter.

January - June 2018

Date of Release: 1 July 2018

Foreword

Odhikar has been monitoring the human rights situation in Bangladesh in order to promote and protect civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Bangladeshi citizens and to report on violations and defend the victims since 1994. Odhikar does not believe that the human rights movement merely endeavours to protect the „individual‟ from violations perpetrated by the state; rather, it believes that the movement to establish the rights and dignity of every individual is part of the struggle to constitute Bangladesh as a democratic state.

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