EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

 Aggression behaviour in 160 adult Chakma tribal students was studied. The subjects were equally divided into boys
and girls. Each category was again subdivided into early adolescent and late adolescent. Age of early adolescent group ranged
from 11 to 14 years and late adolescent group ranged from 15 to 18 years. Thus, the study used a 2×2 factorial design
representing two levels of gender (boy versus girl) and two levels of stage of development (early versus late adolescence). The
measure of aggressive behaviour was administered on the sample for data collection. It was found that regardless of stage of
development, boys expressed significantly higher rates of aggression than girls. Similarly, regardless of gender, respondents at
early adolescent stage expressed significantly higher rates of aggression than the respondents at late adolescent stage

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            SUMMARY

 

 By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated realisation of the whole range of human rights—including economic, social and cultural rights on the one hand and civil and political rights on the other. But does the development policy of Bangladesh actually conform to the demands of the right to development? This is the question investigated in the present paper. The paper first develops a methodology for answering the question, and then applies it to three specific rights—viz., the right to food, the right to health and the right to education—by drawing upon three case studies on the realisation of these rights in Bangladesh. The investigation finds that while Bangladesh can claim to have made a lot of progress in each of the three areas in terms of standard socio-economic indicators, serious deficiencies remain when judged by the criteria of human rights norms. The major areas of concern relate to the principles of equity, participation and accountability. Although successive governments have paid lip service to all three of these principles, the policies they have pursued in practice have actually undermined them more often than not. Fundamental reorientation is needed in the way the government functions before the development policy of the State of Bangladesh can be said to conform to the demands of the right to development approach.

Centre for Policy Dialouge

July 1999

Summary:
The report has thoroughly, discussed various aspects of human development in South-Asia, however, the CPD dialogue was focussed on some selected issues relevant to Bangladesh. At the beginning of the dialogue, Mr. A.M.A. Muhith talked about the real aim of the Bengali version of "Human Development in South Asia, 1997", which was to make the wide number of people aware of the actual state of human development in South Asia. He said that the objective of organizing the dialogue was to

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