Bangladesh

Bangladesh signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 09 May 2007 and ratified it on 30 November 2007

Bangladesh has ratified, but not signed:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming to the abolition of the death penalty
• Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Bangladesh has signed and ratified:

• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography

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