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Today, extensive human rights violations by the Bangladesh Government are reported by Human Rights Groups. The more egalitarian Awami League government was opusted and replaced by the Islamic Fundamentalist government of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party[http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/22spec.htm?q=tp&file=.htm][http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1657018.stm][http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51616.htm]
[http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA130062001!Open][http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1002200,00.html]
 
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) [[Beverly LaHaye Institute]] and CWA’s expert in anti-trafficking efforts, called upon the government of Bangladesh in June of 2007 to end the house arrest of [[Sigma Huda]], the [[United Nations]]’ Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons. Suda has made attempts to attend official meetings in New York, Belarus and Sweden but has been prevented from leaving the country.
 
Crouse said, “Sigma Huda provides an international voice for those women and children who are victimized and exploited by criminals who use human beings as commodities and profit from the odious modern day [[slave]] trade. Efforts to censor her reports or to curtail her work is a crime against [[human rights]] and violates the immunity that she receives as a United Nations’ diplomat commissioned to protect some of the most vulnerable people around the world.”
 
Crouse added, “CWA calls on [[President Bush]] — who is at the forefront in fighting trafficking in persons and who calls such trafficking ‘modern day slavery’ — to use his credibility on the issue of sex trafficking to enlist the other leaders who are attending the G8 meeting in Germany to urge the caretaker government of Bangladesh to free Miss Huda to fulfill her responsibilities as Special Rapporteur. CWA also calls on the United Nations’ Secretary General [[Ban Ki Moon]] to use the authority of the United Nations to ensure that its Special Rapporteur is able to carry out her duties without harassment or interference.” <ref>[http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=13119&department=MEDIA&categoryid=freedom CWA Urges Bangladesh to Release Trafficking Diplomat From House Arrest], Concerned Women for America Press Release, 6/7/2007.</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==*[http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=13119&department=MEDIA&categoryid=freedom CWA Urges Bangladesh to Release Trafficking Diplomat From House Arrest], Concerned Women for America Press Release, 6/7/2007.
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