Bangladesh has signed the United Nations International Charter on Anti-Disappearance

Bangladesh has signed the UN International Convention on Anti-Disappearance to protect its citizens from disappearances. Thursday (August 29) in the weekly meeting of the advisory council, the chief advisor professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Bangladesh signed this charter a day before the International Day for the Prevention of Missing Persons. Later Dr. Yunus said, this is a historic moment.

The interim government formed a commission last Tuesday (August 27) to investigate every incident of forced disappearance in the last 15 years. The five-member investigation committee was formed headed by Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury.

The commission also includes retired justice Farid Ahmed Shibli, human rights activists Noor Khan, Sajjad Hossain and BRAC University teacher Nabila Idris.

The committee has been directed to submit its report within the next 45 working days.

On December 20, 2006, the International Convention against Disappearances was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Implementation of the Charter began in 2010 after 32 countries signed it. So far 75 countries of the world have joined this charter.

The goal of the International Convention against Disappearance is to stop disappearances as well as to establish justice for this crime and to provide assistance to the victims.