Ensuring human rights

Ensuring human rights encompasses both the public and private sector at a larger scale — so it should be an all inclusive one

Indisputably, ensuring human rights is not restricted within the boundaries of courts, government ministries and law enforcement agencies. At a recently held open discussion in Rajshahi, participants rightly focused on the need for concerted efforts in order to ensure human rights in all places throughout the society.  
Protection of human rights affects all fields of national activities. Respecting human rights is one form of response shown to it, but ensuring that it’s implemented countrywide is a completely different matter, and it is right here where the importance of concerted efforts from all quarters plays a crucial role. Though the Rajshahi seminar, attended by professionals and development activists focused on concerted efforts but the range of stakeholders and participants in this seminar should have been much wider. In fact, the topic of ensuring human rights encompasses both the public and private sector at a larger scale — so it should be an all inclusive one.
It is necessary to make sure that respect for human rights remains at the forefront of all our national activities by continually reviewing, monitoring and addressing the human rights risks of our combined activities by upholding international human rights standards. Therefore, it is well advised to continuously pursue all our policies, well in tuned with the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights. That having said, stakeholders should actually aim to follow an integrated approach in this regard.
Not that concerted efforts are missing, but their entirety has not been enough to protect human rights extensively throughout the country. Not limited within any particular region; seminars, symposiums and programmes on the topic should take place in all parts of the country for creating a wider awareness. Expectedly, such combined activities are likely to prevent inhuman and degrading treatment and therefore, ensure accountability, including for crimes committed by law enforcement officials too.
Ending it simply, human rights are translated through the lens of being human and in everyday life more than we think. They are not merely restricted within our legal or political theatres. As has been argued many times before, human rights are completely about human conditions – directly linked to survival, connection as well as transformation. In all capacities, it demands a concerted effort to give voice to human suffering which should be acknowledged by people of all walks of life in Bangladesh.

 

Ensuring human rights

Ensuring human rights encompasses both the public and private sector at a larger scale — so it should be an all inclusive one

Indisputably, ensuring human rights is not restricted within the boundaries of courts, government ministries and law enforcement agencies. At a recently held open discussion in Rajshahi, participants rightly focused on the need for concerted efforts in order to ensure human rights in all places throughout the society. Protection of human rights affects all fields of national activities. Respecting human rights is one form of response shown to it, but ensuring that its implemented countrywide is a completely different matter, and it is right here where the importance of concerted efforts from all quarters plays a crucial role. Though the Rajshahi seminar, attended by professionals and development activists focused on concerted efforts but the range of stakeholders and participants in this seminar should have been much wider. In fact, the topic of ensuring human rights encompasses both the public and private sector at a larger scale so it should be an all inclusive one. It is necessary to make sure that respect for human rights remains at the forefront of all our national activities by continually reviewing, monitoring and addressing the human rights risks of our combined activities by upholding international human rights standards. Therefore, it is well advised to continuously pursue all our policies, well in tuned with the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights. That having said, stakeholders should actually aim to follow an integrated approach in this regard. Not that concerted efforts are missing, but their entirety has not been enough to protect human rights extensively throughout the country. Not limited within any particular region; seminars, symposiums and programmes on the topic should take place in all parts of the country for creating a wider awareness. Expectedly, such combined activities are likely to prevent inhuman and degrading treatment and therefore, ensure accountability, including for crimes committed by law enforcement officials too. Ending it simply, human rights are translated through the lens of being human and in everyday life more than we think. They are not merely restricted within our legal or political theatres. As has been argued many times before, human rights are completely about human conditions directly linked to survival, connection as well as transformation. In all capacities, it demands a concerted effort to give voice to human suffering which should be acknowledged by people of all walks of life in Bangladesh.