STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed deep concern and disappointment that the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance 2025 places the commission under bureaucratic control.

TIB said this will completely destroy the possibility that had emerged for constituting a genuinely independent human right watchdog from of government influence.

The organisation cited the fact that stakeholders involved in drafting the ordinance were kept in the dark, which illustrates how bureaucratic rigidity and even sabotage hold the long-anticipated reform process hostage.

The cabinet secretary was included on the selection committee solely to confirm government control of the process by maintaining authoritarian practices. Furthermore, the organisation described these developments as embarrassing examples of the government’s In

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