Bangladesh signs UN treaty on enforced disappearances
The treaty, adopted by the United Nations in 2006, had not been ratified by Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh’s interim government on Thursday signed a United Nations treaty to prevent enforced disappearances, reported The Business Standard.
An enforced disappearance is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of the rights of an individual by a country. It also entails a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of rights or concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared individual.
On Thursday, Muhammad Yunus, the head of the country’s interim government, signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance during the weekly meeting of the council of advisers. “It is a historic occasion,” Yunus said.
The treaty, adopted by the United Nations in 2006, had not been ratified by Bangladesh.
In a statement, Yunus said that Bangladesh was “acceding to the above-mentioned convention and pledge to faithfully implement the terms and conditions therein”, according to The Business Standard.
Yunus took over as the chief advisor to the interim government in Dhaka on August 8 after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and landed in India on August 5.
The Awami League leader fled the country after the student-led protests against a controversial quota scheme for government jobs, which started in July, snowballed into a broader agitation against her government.
The Awami League regime under Hasina had faced allegations of enforced disappearances. However, the...
