Ain O Salish Kendra

Our chance to be heard

Changing mindsets and media action are key to ending violence against women.
9 December 2024, 12:30 PM

Address, not dismiss, human rights violations

ASK report paints disturbing picture of first six months of 2024
6 July 2024, 07:00 AM

Ain O Salish Kendra, DUJ demand withdrawal of case against 2 editors

Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra and a faction of Dhaka Union of Journalists demand withdrawal of the case filed against four persons including editors of two online news portals under the controversial Digital Security Act after the media outlets ran reports on misappropriation of OMS rice in Thakurgaon's Baliadangi upazila recently.
20 April 2020, 15:33 PM

Extrajudicial killing at its highest ever

According to human rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, last year witnessed the highest number of extrajudicial killings recorded in our country's history. Other serious human rights abuses such as enforced disappearances also continued throughout 2018.
13 January 2019, 18:00 PM

'In Bangladesh, democracy was not allowed to take root'

Sultana Kamal, lawyer and human rights activist, member of CPD board of trustees, former Executive Director of Ain o Salish Kendra, and former advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh, talks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about the upcoming national elections and the state of human rights in Bangladesh.
20 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Rights situation remains alarming

The overall human rights situation in the country was as alarming in the just concluded year as it had been in the past three years, according to rights body Ain o Salish Kendra.
31 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Peace, order new year's big challenge

Taking lessons from the past, law enforcement agencies are redoing their strategies to keep law and order under control in this election year. As part of their plan, police and different intelligence agencies will prepare a fresh list of wanted criminals and probable political troublemakers ahead of the election and launch drives to arrest them. Special drives will also be made to recover illegal firearms, said a number of top police officials.
31 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Human rights defenders feel insecure

Law enforcers harass people by filing false cases and picking them up, rights defenders alleged yesterday at a discussion on the country's human rights situation.
5 December 2017, 18:00 PM

ASK worried over press freedom

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday voiced concerns about the government move to set up a “media monitoring cell”,
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Trial of two cases yet to start

The trial for the killing of more than a thousand people in Rana Plaza collapse three years ago is yet to begin.
23 April 2016, 18:00 PM

ASK concerned over ‘harassment of family by law enforcers’

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, expresses deep concern over the law enforcement agencies’ alleged harassment and pressure on Sohagi Jahan Tonu’s family to give statements they had prescribed.
28 March 2016, 16:07 PM

ASK expresses concern over cases against Star editor

Human rights body Ain O Salish Kendra expresses deep concerns over the barrage of cases filed against The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam.
17 February 2016, 12:40 PM

Halt Kalyanpur slum eviction: HC

The High Court directs the government to halt the eviction at Dhaka’s Kalyanpur slum that houses about 40,000 low-income dwellers.
21 January 2016, 07:47 AM

2015: Bad time for civic, political rights

Human rights situation in Bangladesh worsened on civic and political fronts last year despite improvement in some socio-economic
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM

752 raped in 2015, says ASK

A number of 752 women were raped and 94 others became victims of rape attempts in 2015, according to a report of Ain o Salish Kendra.
31 December 2015, 15:00 PM

March against human trafficking in Cox’s Bazar

Rights activists begin a road march from Cox’s Bazar to Teknaf in a bid to end human trafficking, put to trial those involved and compensate the victims.
8 August 2015, 09:33 AM

NHRC findings alarming

According to the National Human Rights Commissioner, about 70 percent of all complaints of violation of human rights received by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) are against law enforcers, and half of all these complaints are allegations of torture by members of the law enforcing agencies.
17 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Hotline for info on trafficking victims

Migrant rights workers launch hotline numbers in Bangladesh and Malaysia to facilitate the passage of information of the rescued trafficking victims to the aggrieved families.
1 June 2015, 10:59 AM

ASK concerned over missing people including Salahuddin

Ain O Salish Kendra expresses deep concern over increasing number of missing people, alleging law enforcers have picked up at least 20 people this year but denied detaining them.
22 March 2015, 13:25 PM