Uncivil+Society

Much has been written in praise and derision of Bangladesh's 'vibrant' civil society. On this page we explore and evidence the selective humanitarianism which helped produce the dangerous conditions that made this state crime, and its cover up, possible.

The human rights sector in Bangladesh is constituted by several players including national organisations like Ain o Salish Kendra and Odhikar, as well as international franchises like Human Rights Watch and the Asian Human Rights Commission. Usually donor reliant and subject to the politics of their leaderships, their performance in this case has been disappointing, if not inhibited by the government.