Source: The Daily Star
The United States has identified forced disappearances, discrimination against marginalised groups, and poor working conditions and labour rights are the significant human rights problems in Bangladesh.
In its annual human rights report, the State Department criticised a host of human rights problems in Bangladesh, particularly arbitrary arrests, detentions, and custodial deaths.
Bangladesh was also cited for suppressing labour rights, official corruption and related impunity, self-censorship in media, government’s failure to investigate and prosecute cases of security force killings.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry on April 19 submitted the 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, commonly known as the Human Rights Reports, to the United States Congress.
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