Month: November 2025

Workshop Held on Advancing Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Media: Policy and Editorial Practices

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…

Media Statement from the Rapid Response Taskforce Demanding the Immediate Release of Baul Abul Sarkar and Condemning the Coordinated Attacks on Bauls

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…

Workshop held on digital safety for journalists, human rights defenders in Manikganj

(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…