Campaign

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...

Civil society protests in Cox's Bazar against the World Bank loan for humanitarian work Cox's Bazar, 4 June 2024: The civil society of Cox's Bazar protested against the World Bank's offer of a 700 million dollar loan to Bangladesh for the development of the local population affected by the impact...

Dhaka, 18 May 2024: Unprecedented debt will surely derail the hope of sustainability after Bangladesh’s graduation as a middle-income country. The civil society organizations who participate in the event led by EquityBD include BDCSO Process, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, CLEAN, CSRL, NDF, Online Knowledge Society, Sundarban Bachao Andolon, Young Change Makers,...

Dhaka, 6 May 2024: Rights-based civil society organizations, coordinated by the Equity and Justice Working Group (EquityBD), staged a human chain in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka today to protest the stringent conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on its loan to Bangladesh. The...

Civil society protest rally in Bangladesh on the eve of World Bank IMF Spring meetings Dhaka, 19 April 2024: On the eve of the ongoing World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, USA, civil society worldwide is protesting against their debt catastrophe today, 19 April. As part of that, the Bangladesh...

Dhaka, April 15, 2024: Nirapad Naupath Bastobayan Jote (Safer Waterway Implementation Alliance) demanded a judicial investigation and punishment of those responsible for the death of five people in the launch accident at Sadarghat on Eid-ul-Fitr, April 11. The leaders of the alliance think the death of five persons is...

Abu Dhabi 28 February 2024: Non-governmental representatives participating in the third day of the MC13 of WTO in Abu Dhabi condemned the disruption of their normal activities in the name of security. Three of the NGO representatives were detained for various allegations in the first two days. They were detained...