Campaign

Dhaka, 7th April 2016. Today 12 civil society organizations and network facilitated by COAST has organized a seminar at Cirdap international conference centre, title “Setting Agenda for World Humanitarian Summit Istanbul: Climate Induced Displacement, Humanitarian and Right Perspectives”. Where the speakers urged to place the issue of climate induced...

29th April 2016. Today right groups has organized a human chain and a rally in front of national press club and different student and photography organizations has organized a photography exhibition in Teachers and Student Centre (TSC) Dhaka University DU), to remember the devastating cyclone of 29th April 1991...

Dhaka 23rd April 2016. Today Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD) has organized a seminar in National Press Club title “Post Paris Implications: Priority Actions for Climate Adaptation in National Budget and Planning”, where speakers emphasized for separate institutions and priority allocation to take critical infrastructure to protect...

Dhaka 16th April 2016. Today in a roundtable title “Illicit Financial Flow and Our Political Economy” jointly organized by the Daily Bonikbarta and Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD), speakers are urged for a minimum political commitment from all parties to promote sense of security to reduce illicit...

Twelve Farmers’ Organizations term the WTO treaty on agri-subsidies withdrawal suicidal for Bangladesh, Demanded special measures in the 2016-17 budget to ensure sustainable food security. Today 12 farmers’ organizations have termed the recent WTO treaty on subsidy withdrawal from agriculture as suicidal for the food security of Bangladesh. They were...

21st February 2016. 21st February is the International Mother Language Day. In 1952 some students from the University of Dhaka, Jagannath University and Dhaka Medical College were shot dead by police while they were demonstrating for the recognition of Bangla as one of the two national languages of then...

One article titled Climate-induced migrants need dignified recognition’ written by Syed Aminul Haque, Coordinator-Secretariat of EquityBD has recently published in an intentional book. The book titled Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration’ has been published by Routledge of London and New York. The book is a collection of chapters exploring...

Dhaka 11th February 2016. Today Bangla version of Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) which has developed in Bangladesh through a yearlong participatory process and field trail has been lunched in a seminar title “ Accountability and Quality Management in Humanitarian Actions : Bangladesh Perspective” held in BRAC centre. The seminar was...

Dhaka, 26th January 2016. A group of rights based Civil Society Organizations condemned the eviction of the Klyanour Slum in Dhaka. About 27 organizations also demanded the integration of the Internal Displacement policy in the upcoming 7th Five Year policy to ensure effective rehabilitation of the climate induced displaced...