Saber Hossain Chowdhury
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Saber Hossain Chowdhury is a Bangladesh
i politician. He is the former Political Secretary to Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who was the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996–2001 and is now serving her second term as Prime Minister after the Parliamentary elections of 29 December 2008.
As an opposition member, Chowdhury has campaigned vigorously for reforms in Bangladesh's Caretaker Government System and its Electoral Commission. In 2004, he was injured when police beat protesters with batons at a procession he was leading to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia
.
Chowdhury was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in the national elections of December 2009 and is the first parliamentarian to have introduced a Bill on prohibition of Torture and Custodial/ extra judicial killings in Bangladesh.
He has also introduced legislation on rights of slum dwellers on basis of no eviction without rehablitation, a code of conduct/ ethics for members of parliament, repeal of Leprosy Act which promotes segregation, amendments to code of criminal procedure with specific reference to sections 54 and 167. He has also been instrumental in encouraging the government to introduce legistlation prohibiting domestic violence.
He is the first Bangladeshi member of parliament to have been elected as first Vice President of Geneva based Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) Standing Committee on Peace and International Security and is also an active member of Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association (CPA) and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
(PNND).
He chairs Bangladesh Parliaments All Party Group on Climate Change and Environment and jointly authored a joint parliamentary inquiry of the Bangladesh and UK Parliaments, a world first, on Climate Change Equity.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
i politician. He is the former Political Secretary to Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who was the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996–2001 and is now serving her second term as Prime Minister after the Parliamentary elections of 29 December 2008.
As an opposition member, Chowdhury has campaigned vigorously for reforms in Bangladesh's Caretaker Government System and its Electoral Commission. In 2004, he was injured when police beat protesters with batons at a procession he was leading to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia
Khaleda Zia
Begum Khaleda Zia is the former First Lady of Bangladesh , and then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, having served from 1991 to 1996, becoming the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world to head a democratic government as prime minister. She served again from 2001 until...
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Chowdhury was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in the national elections of December 2009 and is the first parliamentarian to have introduced a Bill on prohibition of Torture and Custodial/ extra judicial killings in Bangladesh.
He has also introduced legislation on rights of slum dwellers on basis of no eviction without rehablitation, a code of conduct/ ethics for members of parliament, repeal of Leprosy Act which promotes segregation, amendments to code of criminal procedure with specific reference to sections 54 and 167. He has also been instrumental in encouraging the government to introduce legistlation prohibiting domestic violence.
He is the first Bangladeshi member of parliament to have been elected as first Vice President of Geneva based Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) Standing Committee on Peace and International Security and is also an active member of Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association (CPA) and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament is a global network of over 700 parliamentarians from more than 75 countries working to prevent nuclear proliferation. Membership is open to current members of legislatures and parliaments at state, federal, national and regional levels...
(PNND).
He chairs Bangladesh Parliaments All Party Group on Climate Change and Environment and jointly authored a joint parliamentary inquiry of the Bangladesh and UK Parliaments, a world first, on Climate Change Equity.