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Mayer Daak has been observing the UN declared
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance and International Human Rights Day in Bangladesh since 2016. The platform is also credited for bringing the incidents of enforced disappearance, which is often taken lightly by the government, to
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The name "Mayer Daak" started being visible on local and international media from 2016, after it was founded on 12 March of the same year. The Human Rights Watch report on
Bangladesh's enforced disappearance "We don’t have them" and "Joint NGO Alternative Report to the UN Human Rights Committee on
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In this context, the government started taking repressive measures against the opposition groups and a few opposition leaders and their activists started disappearing under mysterious situation. The first victim to be recorded was a Dhaka City
Corporation councilor Mohammad Chowdhury Alam who was
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In July 2017, New York-based rights defender group Human Rights Watch published a report on the enforced disappearance of
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opened up at the parliament in November 2017. She said: "As per statistics of 2009, 275,000 British citizens disappeared. Of them, the whereabouts of 20,000 is not known. If you consider America, the situation is even worse."
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leaders since most of the victims had political affiliation with the party, observes the "International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances" every year in Bangladesh.
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said: "The remarks about enforced disappearance that the prime minister made is her admission to the fact that they are involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance."
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and organized a mass-hearing on April 21 of the year where they detailed their ordeals and demanded the government to let them know what happened to their family members.
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published a report on the victims of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh that stated that they have recorded at least 90 cases of enforced disappearance only in 2016.
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