A practical guideline is needed to ensure equal rights, opportunities, participation, and representation for persons with disabilities and all gender diverse people in the media and in news coverage based on fairness. This guideline will provide media professionals with various directions. As the initial step toward developing this guideline, a day-long workshop was held on…
Month: November 2025
We, the Rapid Response Taskforce under rights-based organization, VOICE, are gravely concerned by the ongoing persecution of folk artists, particularly the recent detention of Abul Sarkar, and the mounting wave of violence and intimidation targeting Bauls, fakirs and folk practitioners across Bangladesh. His arrest and the aftermath must be seen in a broader context of…
Digital Rights is no longer a concern exclusive to tech experts. It is now deeply intertwined with journalism and the defense of human rights. With this message in focus, a training workshop titled “Digital Rights for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders” was held on 22 November 2025, at Swabolombi Unnayan Samity in Netrokona. The workshop was…
(08 November 2025, Manikganj) Digital safety and security is now deeply intertwined with journalism and the defense of human rights. With the aim to build capacity of Journalists and Human Rights Defenders, a training workshop titled “Digital Safety and security held today at Café Highway auditorium in Manikganj. The workshop was organized by the rights-based…