With the vision of strengthening mechanisms for promotion and protection of human rights and the delivery of "Justice for all" in Bangladesh, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has initiated a new technical assistance project with the Bangladeshi government.
The project, called "Promoting Access to Justice and Human Rights in Bangladesh" initially aims to mobilize 3 million U.S. dollars as an integral part of cooperation between the Bangladeshi government and UNDP, said a press release issued by the UNDP's office in Bangladesh on Sunday.
The cooperation will focus on such areas as democratic governance, human rights and access to justice, which particularly aims to strengthen the ability of the poor and other disadvantaged persons to demand and obtain justice by asserting human rights and statutory entitlements.
The project, therefore, aims to institutionalize human rights principles and standards, through the establishment of a national human rights commission, and advance prospects for access to justice for the weakest victims of injustice, through strategic interventions involving the judiciary, law officers, the legal profession, and civil society organizations responsive to the voices of the poor.
In doing so, the project will provide support to processes initiated by the government to establish a human rights commission, separate judiciary from executive, and it will focus on issues relating to capacity development of the judiciary, law officers, legal profession, legal aid authority, and civil society groups working on human rights and access to justice.
Another notable emphasis of the project is on gender justice through focusing on international norms and sensitization of justice sector personnel to their duties to ensure adherence to principles of non-discrimination, equality and participation when women are claimants of rights, and adopt proactive approaches to combating gender-based violence.
Source: Xinhua
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