U.S. Department of State Publishes 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report: Bangladesh has made Key Progress to Combat Human Trafficking

 Yesterday, the U.S. State Department published the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. This is the 22nd annual report. The country report for Bangladesh includes 18 priority recommendations ranging from increasing prosecutions and expanding victim services to enhancing law enforcement training and collaborating across borders.

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2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bangladesh

BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: The Department of State will release an addendum to this report in mid 2021 that expands the subsection on Women in Section 6 to include a broader range of issues related to reproductive rights.​ Bangladesh’s constitution provides for a parliamentary form of government in which most power resides in the Office of the …

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What Still Needs to Happen to Win the Fight Against Human Trafficking

In late 2019, we learned of the harrowing plight of Suma Akter, a Bangladeshi woman in Saudi Arabia who secretly recorded and shared on social media her story of abuse and exploitation abroad.

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Bangladesh Human Rights Report 2018

Bangladesh’s constitution provides for a parliamentary form of government, but in fact, most power resides in the Office of the Prime Minister. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party won a third consecutive five-year term in an improbably lopsided December parliamentary election that was not considered free and fair, and was marred by …

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Documentation of Atrocities in Northern Rakhine State

The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), with funding support from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), conducted a survey in spring 2018 of the firsthand experiences of 1,024 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. The goal of the survey was to document atrocities committed against residents in Burma’s northern Rakhine …

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Trafficking in Persons Report 2017

“Human trafficking is one of the most tragic human rights issues of our time. It splinters families, distorts global markets, undermines the rule of law, and spurs other transnational criminal activity. It threatens public safety and national security. “But worst of all, the crime robs human beings of their freedom and their dignity. That’s why …

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Bangladesh 2016 Human Rights Report

Bangladesh is a secular, pluralistic, parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League (AL) have retained power since the January 2014 parliamentary elections, which most international observers characterized as controversial and falling short of international standards.

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ANNUAL FISCAL TRANSPARENCY REPORT 2016

The State Department released the 2016 Fiscal Transparency Report on July 28, 2016 pursuant to Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2016. The report found that 76 of 140 governments reviewed by the Department met minimum requirements of fiscal transparency.

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