Campaign

Baku, Azerbaijan, November 16, 2024. During the ongoing Cop 29 Global Climate Conference, a civil society dialogue is held, where they made a demand 1.5 trillion dollar under the discourse on new climate finance goal for 2025-30 period. They also opposed any text and criteria that shift the responsibility...

Baku, Azerbaijan, November 11, 2024 - During the ongoing Cop 29 Global Climate Conference in Baku, leaders of Civil Society from Most Vulnerable Countries and Least Developed Countries gathered in a press conference and demanded a concreate commitment for “Ending Fossil Fuel” from the big emitters for...

Dhaka, 26 October 2024: On the eve of the 29th Climate Conference (COP29) to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the speakers at a seminar organised by non-government organisations in Dhaka today said that the earth will no longer be habitable if the global warming exceeds two degrees Celsius in...

Dhaka, 14 October 2024. Civil society has called for urgent action to protect women during disasters, emphasizing their right to physical, mental and reproductive healthcare and security. Women often face significant long-term physical and emotional harm due to the lack of awareness, sensitization and inadequate emergency services. Rights-based civil...

Geneva, 10th Sept 2024: Government and non-government speakers at a side event in the Public Forum 2024 of the WTO at its headquarters in Geneva today said that small-scale farmers across the world are the major contributors to sustainability, yet they have suffered the most from the effects of...

Dhaka, 29 August 2024: In a media workshop in Dhaka today civil society and economic journalists expressed their concern about the data discrepancy of Bangladesh before the country starts negotiations in WTO. EquityBD and the Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) jointly organised the Media workshop titled “WTO Trade Rules and...

CSOs Demands for Public Expenditure Review Commission Dhaka, 29 June 2024: CSOs in a press conference today in Dhaka demanded a Public Expenditure Review Commission to stop unbearable corruption. They also said, the yearly income tax evasion is nearly $25 billion which could increase four times the per capita health...

Draft Position Paper, Equity BD, 13 June 2024 National Budget -2024-25 Independent Climate Finance is Inevitable for Sustainable Development Proposed National Budget 2024-25 Amid a multi-faceted economic crisis including inflation, reserves, revenue rates, dollar crisis and financial sector reforms, the National Parliament of Bangladesh proposed a budget of Tk 797,000 crore...

Expert Speakers at Seminar on Climate Finance in National Budget Dhaka, 13 June 2024: Several long-term plans have been formulated in Bangladesh to address the impacts of climate change, including the Centenary Delta Plan. However, the budget allocation required to implement the steps mentioned in the plans is not reflected...

Civil society Protests World Bank's Loan for Bangladesh to solve the Rohingya crisis Dhaka, 8 June 2024: The Rohingya crisis has become increasingly more complex in seven years. Persistent funding shortfalls have compounded that crisis. When there is no option but to repatriate, the World Bank intensified this crisis by...