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Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhary has been appointed as the Chairman of BHRC

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Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhury has been appointed as the Chairman of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission-BHRC (2016-2018. He was a former justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court and was the first Chairman of National Human Rights Commission which was formed in 2008 by Government of Bangladesh. In his glorious and esteemed career, he has been awarded various posts and worked everywhere with dignity & honour.
Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhury was born on 23rd June, 1940 in a distinguished Muslim family, at village Nonachhari, District Cox's bazar. His father's name is Golam Kabir Chowdhury & Mother's name is Golnur Begum Chowdhury.
He started his career as an Advocate in Cox's bazar District Court and later was enlisted with Dhaka High Court & the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was Appointed as the Justice of High Court in 1996 and in 2004 he was appointed a Justice in Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was appointed the Chairman of Labour & Appeal Tribunal in 2007 and in 2008 he was appointed the first Chairman of National Human Rights Commission formed in that year..

BHRC Human Rights Report on January to June 2016
Total 1185 persons killed in January to June, 2016
 

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The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, subdistrict and municipal branches. As per survey it appears that 1185 peoples were cross fire, political opposition workers and others killed in January to June 2016 in all over the country. It proves that the law and order situation is not satisfactory. Bangladesh Human Rights Commissions extremely anxious about this situation. In the month of January to June 2016 average 6.51 people were killed in each day.
The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing may be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized. Report published assistant by International Human Rights Commission-IHRC.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 1185 people's killed January to June, 2016.
Political opposition worker killing 86
Killing for dowry 48, killing by family violence 119, Killed due to social discrepancy 285, Killed by Cross fire Police & RAB 65, Killed due to do doctor negligence 13, Assassination 50, Mysterious death 440, Killed due to BSF Bangladesh-India Border Area 21, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 20, Kill due to abduction 32, Communal Violence 6.
Killed by several accidents:
Killed by road accident 1291, Suicide 126
Besides victims of torture:
Rape186, Torture for Dowry 46, Sexual Harassment 74
 

Abandoned Japanese boy 'forgives father'

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A Japanese boy who was lost for six days in dense forests after his parents left him behind has been discharged from hospital, reports BBC.
Takayuki Tanooka, 44, and his wife briefly left Yamato Tanooka by the side of the road on the northern island of Hokkaido on 28 May as punishment. When they came back he was gone. A huge search was launched and the boy was found at a military base on Friday.
Tanooka said in an interview on Monday that Yamato forgave him. The case sparked a debate in Japan about parenting.
Tanooka told broadcaster TBS in an interview: "I said to him, 'Dad made you go though such a hard time. I am sorry'."
"And then, my son said, 'You are a good dad. I forgive you'."
The boy was found on Friday morning in a hut on a military drill field, some 5.5km (3.4 miles) from where he was left as a punishment for throwing stones at people and cars.
He said he had lost his sense of direction from crying and walked for about five hours before arriving at the building where he was found, according to The Mainichi newspaper.
 

 Zero tolerance to corruption in Judiciary: CJ

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Corruption in judiciary will not be tolerated in anyway, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said on Monday.
The chief justice said these while addressing a gathering of judges, lawyers and journalists at the conference room of Dhaka Bar Council as he paid a surprise visit to the lower court, reports BSS.
"I came here on an unofficial visit today. Even my security people did not know where I was heading for. But I was shocked to see the lockup of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court. There I saw four children with their mothers, who are accused in different cases. Why those children are here? They did not do anything wrong. They can become president, prime minister, chief justice of this country in future," he said.
"I would recommend for rehabilitating them so that they do not become criminals by living with some at the lockup. We would like to build the courts in the capital as exemplary ones for the rest of the country. We would not tolerate the slightest of corruption here," the chief justice added.
High Court Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam, Registrar Abu Syed Diljar Hussain, Additional Registrar (Administration and Judicial) Md Sabbir Faiz, Dhaka District and Sessions Judge SM Quddus Jaman, Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sheikh Hafizur Rahman, were present on the occasion, among others.
 

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Illegal migrants cannot be jailed, says EU court
 

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LUXEMBOURG: EU countries cannot imprison illegal migrants just for crossing borders inside the passport-free Schengen area, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday, in a new blow to efforts to crack down on the migration crisis, report agencies.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg said that European Union rules prevent the jailing of non-EU migrants who have illegally crossed a frontier if they have not already been subject to deportation procedures.
The ruling came in the case of a Ghanaian woman, Selina Affum, who was caught by French police at the Channel Tunnel while on a bus from Belgium to Britain using someone else's passport. French police placed her in custody for illegal entry to France, and then asked Belgium to readmit her.
The EU court, ruling on Affum's appeal against her detention, said that it was against the EU's "return directive" or laws on deporting migrants.
"The return directive prevents a national of a non-EU country who has not yet been subject to the return procedure being imprisoned solely because he or she has entered the territory of a Member State illegally across an internal border of the Schengen area," it said.
The Schengen passport free area of 26 European countries has come under severe pressure from the continent's biggest migration crisis since World War II as people flee war in Syria and elsewhere.
 

Ban Ki-moon warns of Islamic State's tentacles spreading to South Asia

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned of the danger of the Islamic State spreading its tentacles to South Asia through organisations like the Tehreek-e-Khilafat in Pakistan and called for international action against the grave threat.
In a grim report on the Islamic State's threat to international peace and security presented to the Security Council Tuesday, Ban said groups like the Tehreek-e-Khilafat in Pakistan "are sufficiently attracted by its underlying ideology to pledge allegiance to its so-called caliphate and self-proclaimed caliph."
Ban called the terrorist organisation Islamic State, which is also known by the acronyms ISIS, ISIL and Da'esh, "an unprecedented threat to international peace and security." He said, "This is a matter of considerable concern, since these groups appear to be emulating IS's tactics and carrying out attacks on its behalf."
"In 2016 and beyond, member states should prepare for a further increase in the number of foreign terrorist fighters travelling to other States on the instructions of IS," he added.
The Islamic State now controls swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, but Ban said, "The recent expansion of the IS's sphere of influence across West and North Africa, (West Asia) and South and South-East Asia demonstrates the speed and scale at which the gravity of the threat has evolved in just 18 months."
"In Afghanistan and Pakistan, IS continues to develop a network of contacts and sympathisers who carry out attacks in its name," Ban said. "On 13 January, 2016, the IS group 'Khorasan Province,' which operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan, issued a statement claiming credit for an attack on the Pakistani Consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan."

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ASA plans to disburse Tk 25,500cr in FY17

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ASA, a leading non-governmental organisation, has set a target to disburse Tk 25,500 crore as loans in 2016-17, which will benefit around 75 lakh clients. The decision was taken at the organisation's 37th annual general meeting, at ASA's headquarters in the capital. The NGO also decided to spend Tk 47 crore from its own resources for non-financial programmes, including primary healthcare, primary education strengthening programme, physiotherapy, water, sanitation and hygiene and agricultural support in 2016-17.
Taherunnessa Abdullah, chairperson of ASA, presided over the meeting, while Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, president of the NGO, presented a report on the activities of the organisation for the outgoing financial year.
ASA also selected Mojurul Ahsan Bulbul and Enamul Haque as the new governing body members of the organisation.

Saudi to recruit 5 lakh more Bangladeshis
 

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Saudi Arabia has expressed willingness to recruit some 5 lakh Bangladeshis to meet its demand for workers in various sectors.
"We want to recruit 5 lakh more workforce from Bangladesh," Saudi Minister for Labour Mofarrej Al-Haqbani said when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Royal Conference Palace here on Sunday night.
PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.
The premier is now in Saudi Arabia on a five-day official visit at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
The Saudi minister said the Bangladeshis, including some 42,000 female domestic helps, were working in the Arab country with a good reputation.
 

 Hillary 'secures Democratic nomination'

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Hillary Clinton captured the Democratic White House nomination hours before Tuesday's last major primaries of 2016, according to US delegate counts, taking a monumental step toward becoming America's first female commander-in-chief, reports AFP.
Passing the milestone of 2,383 delegates secures Clinton's status as the presumptive nominee, and marks a dramatic political resurgence for a highly experienced but controversial candidate who lost to Barack Obama in their 2008 battle to be the Democratic standard-bearer.
This time the 68-year-old former secretary of state survived an extraordinarily strong grassroots campaign by her party rival Bernie Sanders and is set to go head-to-head with Republican real estate tycoon Donald Trump in an unprecedented showdown for the White House.
But Sanders was not ready to capitulate, insisting the Democratic nominee will not be chosen until delegates vote at the party's national convention in late July.
And while her campaign acknowledged as "an important milestone" the US network tallies that pushed her beyond the magic number, Clinton said the Democratic race was not yet over.
"We are on the brink of a historic, historic, unprecedented moment," she told a rally in Long Beach, California.
 

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