I am writing to you on behalf of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 46 countries, and through them more than 1 million European lawyers. The CCBE places great emphasis on respect for human rights and the rule of law and is particularly concerned with the situation of human rights defenders around the world.
A Human Rights Organization for Ensuring Justice, Rehabilitation and Development
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
CCBE urgent to PM of Bangladesh on intensifying threats against lawyer Shahanur Islam
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Bangladeshi activist Shahanur has received repeated death threats!
Saturday, October 15, 2022
BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh urge to immediate arrest of those accused culprits who were involved in physical torture of a Trans woman and her mother for extortion in Dhaka.
প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি : ঢাকায় চাঁদার দাবীতে যৌন সংখ্যালঘু রুপান্তরকামী মহিলা ও তার মাকে নির্যাতনের ঘটনায় অভিযুক্ত ব্যক্তিদের অবিলম্বে গ্রেফতারপুর্বক বিচারে দৃষ্ঠান্তমূলক শাস্তি প্রাদান করা হোক।
Monday, October 10, 2022
JOINT STATEMENT: BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly urge to Bangladesh Government to repeal the provision of death penalty in the existing law.
On the occasion of the 20th World Abolition of Death Penalty Day
2022, Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human
Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have called for the abolition of all
clauses containing the provision of death penalty in the existing laws in
Bangladesh. Today, on October 10, 2022, BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh urged
to the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to abolish death
penalty.
Advocate Shahanur Islam, Secretary General of JusticeMakers
Bangladesh and BIHR, has demanded for life imposing life imprisonment in
serious crimes instead of death penalty to avoid cruel, inhuman and humiliating
punishments like death penalty.


