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During 2018, domestic civil society organisations (CSOs) in Bangladesh, including media organisations, have largely adopted a ‘see-no-evil’ strategy to survive and the few remaining independent entities have felt the heat and wrath of the authorities when trying to expose the widespread human rights violations and abuses of democratic values.
Jan 24, 2024 · Action points. They called on the authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all civil society and political activists detained without charge, ensure fair trials and bring about...
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In Bangladesh, many CSOs are working for democratic governance. For example, Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Citizens for Good Governance), known as SHUJAN, Janipap, Broti and Election Working Group (EWG) are working for democratic governance. They work as election observers to watch and evaluate the fairness and credibility of elections. The EWG menti...
Thousands of NGOs are working in Bangladesh for socio-economic development and women empowerment since independence. Here all those NGOs are considered as part of CSOs that are working for not profit and wellbeing of society. By this time, Dr Yunis, the founder of Grameen Bank, has been awarded Nobel Prize in peace and Dr Fazle Hossain Abed, founde...
Rule of law and human rights are the two basic ingredients of democracy and good governance. In Bangladesh, some Human Rights defenders organizations are working as part of CSOs for ensuring the rule of law and human rights in Bangladesh. These organizations are very active against any kind of rights-violating activities of government or any other ...
Public interest including sound environment is one of the requirements of sound people, development and good governance. Some CSOs in Bangladesh like BELA and BAPA are working to protect the environment, generate awareness, educate the actors and create values in the society. The CSOs have filed around hundreds of public interest environmental liti...
Policy dialogue is one of the very crucial instruments of CSOs to make a government transparent, accountable and participatory to common people. In Bangladesh, some CSOs like TIB, CPD, and most of the TV channels have been playing this role for the past ten years or more. They arrange programmes on contemporary issues of politics, economics and gov...
Some times CSOs are playing a key role to change society or state. In Bangladesh, we have some realities like this. Before the independence of the country, the intellectual, press and media, writers, journalists, poets and novelists even students also play their role as civil society, for example, at the time of language movement in 1948, mass move...
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Nov 22, 2021 · Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya. Distinguished Fellow, CPD. Paper Title – Understanding Civil Society in Bangladesh: Evolution, Issues and Challenges. Abstract: The difficulty in defining “civil society” explains how complex the idea is, particularly in the context of Bangladesh.
Dec 29, 2022 · Tribune Desk. Publish : 29 Dec 2022, 07:30 PM Update : 29 Dec 2022, 07:30 PM. The overall sustainability of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Bangladesh remained unchanged in 2021, with declines in four dimensions and no notable change in the remaining three.
Mar 12, 2021 · March 26 marks 50 years since the start of Bangladesh’s liberation war, a bloody nine-month campaign that culminated in the nation’s independence on Dec. 16, 1971. It was a violent birth, with ...
Feb 22, 2022 · These terms have been vehemently opposed by indigenous leaders as well as by mainstream civil society groups including the International CHT Commission. (d) The situation has, however, had the effect of fuelling movements on the part of indigenous leadership supported by many civil liberties groups to continuously lobby to uphold indigenous ...
