A Critical Analysis on the Motto of the National Human Rights Commission and Its Dissimilarities: Bangladesh Perspective

Human rights are the birthright of human beings. Irrespective of state, caste, religion, or creed, everyone has human rights that can never be transferred, and no one can curtail human rights. Human rights are universally recognized. Various human rights organizations have been formed to protect the human rights of all people around the world, and international and domestic laws have been enacted to ensure human rights. There have been two world wars in the world so far with bloodshed and gross violations of human rights. Especially the horrors of World War II, which started in 1939 and finished in 1944. Which were so devastating and a disaster for human rights that it was a gross violation of human rights. After seeing the horrors of World War II, world leaders agreed that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was promulgated on December 10, 1948, through the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Respecting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the member states of the United Nations, especially Bangladesh, have inserted fundamental rights in the constitution modeled after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and established the National Human Rights Commission for the protection of human rights. This paper is to draw the definition of human rights, the history of the formation of the National Human Rights Commission, its structure, and its functions. Along with that, the objectives of the National Human Rights Commission, the contrast between the reality with the motto of the National Human Rights Commission, and the failure of the Human Rights Commission to solve or reduce the violations of human rights and emerging problems in Bangladesh will be highlighted, as well as some recommendations.