Saber Hossain Chowdhury

Who is Saber Hossain Chowdhury?

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 rehabilitation, a code of conduct and 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 legislation 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 Standing Committee on Peace and International Security and is also an active member of Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

He chairs the Bangladesh Parliament's 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.