, Dec. 14 -- Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed deep concern and disappointment over the 'conspiratorial fundamental changes' to the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance 2025.

The process of forming the Commission under bureaucratic control has completely destroyed the possibility that had emerged for constituting the Commission independently of government influence, it said in a statement on Saturday.

The organisation cited the fact that stakeholders involved in drafting the ordinance were kept in the dark, which illustrates how bureaucratic rigidity and even sabotage are holding the long-anticipated reform process hostage.

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