Human Rights in Bangladesh: Success and Challenges

Abstract

Human right is a wide spectrum that includes various opportunities that human being deserves to sustain and thrive in life. It is state’s responsibility to assure access of all to fundamental rights. But often the state faces challenges from internal as well as external sources in that pursuit. Bangladesh is quite a new country with the credit of creating a congenial environment for its citizens. Nonetheless, over the years, the country has gone through various natures of regimes and had its own share of human rights violence. This chapter discusses the foundation on which the human rights of Bangladesh stand and how that has been shaken and made robust over time. The main background of discussion is the democratic regimes when the expectation on human rights provision is the highest. Followed by that, the current situation of human rights in the country is analyzed, and the challenges that the global human rights structure is facing are discussed. Bangladesh is not immune to these challenges and needs a strong basis to deal with them. Lastly, the chapter comes up with a few recommendations to tackle these challenges and determines the ways to create a just human rights regime in the country.