Document #1242706
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Please consult the attachments from Amnesty
International and the Coordinating Council for Human Rights in
Bangladesh (CCHRB) for information on this subject.
Additional information can be found in
Amnesty International Report for 1993 and 1994 and in Human Rights
Watch World Report 1995. All these publications are available at
Regional Documentation Centres.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
Amnesty International (AI). October
1994. Bangladesh: Fundamental Rights of Women Violated With Virtual
Impunity. (AI Index: ASA 13/09/94). London: Amnesty International,
pp. 1-2, 6-8, 20-21.
_____. 4 October 1993. "Bangladesh:
Public Executions and Lashing Carried Out on the Direction of Local
Bodies Without Legal Authority." (AI Index: ASA 13/WU 04/93).
London: Amnesty International.
_____. October 1993. Bangladesh: Taking
the Law in Their Own Hands: The Village Salish (AI Index: ASA
13/12/93). London: Amnesty International, pp. 1-5.
State of Human Rights 1993 Bangladesh.
1993. Edited by Father R.W. Timm et al. Dhaka: Bangladesh
Manobadhikar Samonnoy Parishad (BMSP)/Coordinating Council for
Human Rights in Bangladesh (CCHRB), pp. 56-58.