Campaign

Dhaka, 14th June 2011. Today fifteen civil society organizations leaded by EquityBD has organized a rally in front of national press club, they criticizes Finance Minister for submission to IMF conditionality that has reduces subsidy in 2011-12 budget, government has been trying to receive $ 1 billion loan from...

Dhaka, 6th June 2011. Today in a seminar at national press club, title “Internal Resource Mobilization and Pro Poor revenue collection Strategies”, organized by EquityBD a network of civil society rights groups, speakers urged government to prepare pro poor and revenue mobilization policy and they urged government to review...

Dhaka, 28th May 2011. Today fifteen civil society organizations leaded by EquityBD has organized a rally in front of national press club and express worries on monopolies of foreign companies in telecommunication sector, they have urged the Finance Minister to announce special allocation for the public company TeleTalk. The...

Dhaka, 21st May 2011. Today fourteen rights based civil society organizations, leaded by EquityBD organized a rally in front of national press club urged Finance Minister to keep his promise which was given in parliament last year and to initiate district budget, they mentioned the present budget preparation as colonial top down...

Dhaka, 26th April 2011. Today civil society rights group in a press conference held at national press club said that, transparent and effective use of climate trust fund which has been contributed from national revenue is a pre condition to draw attention of donors, they also emphasize to form...

Dhaka, 19th April 2011. Today thirteen right based civil society organizations leaded by EquityBD protested government plan to take 1 Bln $ loan and fulfillment of its conditionality, they urged government not to take the loan as such conditionality especially money contraction and VAT expansion are anti poor and...

A two day long residential workshop for media professional was held from 11 to 12th March, 2011 at Proshika Human Resource Development Center kaitta, Manikganj. The workshop is focused on the issue of investigative journalism especially climate finance monitoring in Bangladesh where 17 journalist have taken part. Objectives of...

Dhaka, 19th February 2011. Today eleven civil society organizations and networks urged government to Reject World Bank (WB) PPCR (Pilot Project on Climate Resilience) loan in respect of climate adaptation. The organizations and networks are ARPON, Bangladesh Krishak Federation, DCI, CSRL, CDP, Lead Trust, EquityBD, IEE, On Line Knowledge...

Dhaka, 20th January, 2011, the civil society organization and their representatives of South Asian countries urged to SAARC leaders to play a pro-active role to fulfill the aspiration of the poor people of South Asia, in a press conference title “ Peoples’ SAARC on ‘Envisioning New South Asia: Peoples’...

Discussants in the People’s SAARC seminar today laid emphasis on increasing democratization of state to invigorate the development of a secularism at all levels to combat the growth of religious extremism in the society. They also laid emphasis on creating a SAARC parliamentarian forum to bring the legislators all countries together...