[ZESTCaste] Bangladesh: ‘Ensure equal rights for Dalits’

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'Ensure equal rights for Dalits'
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Dhaka
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Author / Source : STAFF REPORTER

DHAKA, MAR 21: Speakers on Monday demanded to the government to
formulate necessary laws ensuring all citizens' equality, humanistic
status and social justice. The demands were raised at a seminar on
'Discrimination on the basis of birth and profession: socio-economic
influence and its solution' organised by the Bangladesh Dalit and
Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM) at the National Press Club in the
city.
Mukul Sikdar of BDERM presided over the seminar. Among others,
professor Dr Farzana Islam of Jahangirnagar University, Abul Bashar,
project coordinator of Nagarik Uddyag, Kazi Riajul Haque, member of
the national human rights commission, Saiful Islam Haque, general
secretary of Biblobi Workers' Party, Professor Dr HKS Arefin, Dhaka
University, Shamsul Huda, executive director of Association for Land
Reform and Development addressed on the occasion.
Kazi Riajul Haque said the main spirit of the freedom movement of
Bangladesh was to establish a state ensuring all citizens' equal
rights, social status and social justice. The country was liberated
fighting against all forms of discrimination and the state should be
run on this spirit because democracy can not be established keeping a
majority of people disadvantaged especially the Dalits, he added.
"Dalits are the creation of the society and their rights is
constitutional rights," he pointed out.
Speaking at the seminar, Saiful Islam Haque said the identity of
Dalits can not be an obstacle in obtaining his rights in a democratic
system. He also emphasised on the allocation for the 55 Lakh Dalits
in the forthcoming national budget.
Shamsul Huda said article 28 of the constitution ensures equal status
for all people but even after the liberation of 40 years, we could not
remove the discrimination on the basis of race and profession. We have
to eradicate this problem from the society to establish equal human
rights, he added.

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