| The international conventions
are norms of conduct, which are arrived at after extensive discussions
and negotiations, often spread over many years, between multiple State
parties. Conventions may govern relationships between States or they
may delineate what a State may or may not do. International conventions
represent a consensus of opinion among many sovereign states as to
minimum standards of behavior for any State regardless of their economic
development, national laws, cultural norms or social mores.
States can become signatories of these conventions either by ascendance
or by ratification. Signatories may also introduce reservations
or exceptions to certain provisions of the conventions that they
do not wish to be bound by. When a signatory state violates a convention
they have either ascended to or ratified then they are breaking
a promise they made to their own citizens and to the international
community to live or behave in a certain way. When a State violates
a convention they have not signed, they are still in contravention
of a minimum standard of behavior as agreed by a number of their
peers.
Bangladesh and Pakistan are signatories to the following conventions:
Bangladesh:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Pakistan:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
We have not only reproduced international conventions relevant
to the issue at hand we have also identified the articles and clauses
contravened by each of the two States. We have only identified those
violations of rights, which may be considered absolutely fundamental
and are generally enjoyed by the rest of the populations in Bangladesh
and Pakistan. In every case the violations are grievous and chronic.
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