About Us

The JMBF is an independent non-profit, nonpartisan human rights organization registered in France with registration number W931027714 under the association law of 1901, dedicated to defending human rights, fighting for justice, and empowering communities in Bangladesh and beyond.

Overall objectives:

The overall objective of JMBF is to contribute to the defense, promotion, education, protection, and realization of human rights, including civil and political rights, regardless of sex, caste, race, and faith.

Aims of JMBF: 

JMBF aims to:

    i. defend against all forms of discrimination and impunity against sexual (lesbian, gay,                 bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex+), ethnic-Indigenous, religious (Hindu, Buddhist,             Christian, Ahmadiyya), and social (Dalit) minority communities in Bangladesh.

    ii. combat torture, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and organized violence,             ensuring the rights of victims, including women and children, by assisting individuals                 throughout Bangladesh who have little or no access to human rights resources.

    iii. extend support to human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, bloggers, civil society             members and artists who are at risk due to their professional activities dealing with human         rights violations in Bangladesh.

    iv. enable access to existing support services for Bangladeshi-origin asylum seekers,                 refugees, and immigrants living in France.

Specific Objectives of JMBF:

The specific objectives of JMBF include, but are not limited to:

I. Upholding the United Nations principles and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the European Protocol & Convention of Human Rights, in Bangladesh.

II. Materializing truth, justice, and complete reparation for serious violations of human rights of minority people in Bangladesh, through legal and political actions at the international, national, and local levels where human rights have been systematically violated.

III. Ensuring physical, legal, and moral support, as well as social and economic reintegration, to victims of human rights violations against minority people throughout Bangladesh.

IV. Ensuring education, awareness, training, and dissemination of information related to global human rights instruments among local-level professionals to prevent all forms of human rights violations against minority people.

V. Ensuring access to support from human rights organizations for victims of human rights violations, which will lead to building up institutions and human rights defenders at the community level in Bangladesh.

VI. Sensitizing on specific issues of human rights violations, conducting lobbying, campaigning, and advocacy activities at the national and international levels based on research findings on legal and human rights aspects, to protect and promote human rights in Bangladesh.

VII. Ensuring easy access to support services provided by the Republic of France for Bangladeshi refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants living in France, by disseminating information and establishing a strong reference mechanism.