Inhuman Camp Life of Bihari Urdu-speaking Linguistic Minority of Bangladesh: Patterns of inequality, discrimination, political and social marginalization of the Bihari Urdu-Speaking Bangladeshis For Bangladesh Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2018 Joint Submission By Council of Minorities and NAMATI Council of Minorities (CoM) (www.com-bd.org) is a platform for minority and indigenous communities in Bangladesh. It was established in 2012 and is based Dhaka. CoM’s vision is “a peaceful, poverty-and-xenophobia-free world where people, especially minorities, indigenous peoples, the powerless, and marginalized will have equal opportunities to live with dignity and hope.” Council of Minorities is trying to bring changes in Bangladesh society and to ensure the social, cultural, political, constitutional, and economic rights of minority and indigenous peoples. CoM is led by Khalid Hussain, a lawyer from the Urdu-speaking Bangladeshi community. Khalid Hussain, Founder & Chief Executive, Council of Minorities Former UN Minority Fellow-2008 Email: khalid.aygusc@gmail.com Cell: +8801911479073 Namati (www.namati.org) is an international NGO dedicated to putting the power of law in the hands of people. Namati is building a global movement of community paralegals who give people the power to understand, use and shape the law. Namati takes on justice challenges like realizing effective citizenship rights and enforcing environmental law. Our paralegals track data on every case and use that information to advocate for systemic changes. Namati convenes the Global Legal Empowerment Network, which is made up of over 1000+ groups and 4,000+ individuals from 150 countries. Laura Goodwin, Citizenship Program Director, Namati Email: lauragoodwin@namati.org Cell: +254772861388 Namati and Council of Minorities have partnered since 2013 to implement a communitybased paralegal program focused on citizenship and related rights of the Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh. Paralegals are recruited from and active in dozens of Urduspeaking camps in 7 cities across the country empowering camp residents to acquire and use citizenship-related documents. 1