[Dhaka, 28 November 2020] Speakers urged to secure human rights and ensure freedom of expression in Bangladesh and proper implement of human rights law in a dialogue held at VOICE’s Civic center in the capital today morning. The dialogue was organized by Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment (VOICE), a rights and advocacy organization with…
Speakers urged to repeal the use of Digital Security Act to repress journalists and citizens’ voices and ensure the right to freedom of expression in a dialogue held at VOICE’s Civic center in the capital today morning. The dialogue was organized by Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment (VOICE), a rights and advocacy organization with…
[Dhaka, 3 October 2020] Speakers urged to ensure equality, women empowerment and freedom of expression in a discussion session on Gender, development and freedom of expression held its training centre. The discussion session was organized by VOICE while Ahmed Swapan, executive director of VOICE moderated the session. Nur Quamrunnahar, a noted writer and senior professional…
Bangladeshi authorities must immediately stop harassing and intimidating the family members of exiled blogger Asad Noor and other human rights defenders, Amnesty International said today. The work of people defending human rights in Bangladesh has become increasingly challenging. In recent years, many bloggers and human rights defenders have fled from persecution at home and sought…
Rights and advocacy organisation Voice had expressed deep concern over the arrest of journalists, online activists, teachers, students, writers, and cartoonists, among others, under Digital Security Act 2018, and urged to scrap the law. In a press release on Saturday, the Dhaka-based organisation urged the government to show respect to the constitutional obligations, international human…
The World Press Freedom Day is being observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world today amid the coronavirus pandemic. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly declared 3 May a World Press Freedom Day to increase consciousness of the value of freedom of the press and to inform governments of their responsibility to protect…
The government imposed a countrywide lockdown from 26 March 2020 and extended for the third consecutive period until 05 May 2020 for containment of the outbreak of the coronavirus. Forum for Freedom of Expression, Bangladesh (FExB) or মুক্ত প্রাকাশ(in Bangla), a network of media rights defenders has expressed deep anguish and grave concern over the…
The attacks of coronavirus or Covid19 have already taken over the world. Arguments and fears have now arisen that this epidemic is a by-product of a dire capitalist society in which utter consumerism, environmental degradation, and culture prevail over creation for the sole profit of companies. As consumption rates increase, the more pollutants in the…
The mobile court said they had recovered drugs and alcohol from the journalist’s residence, which his family termed absurd A mobile court in the dead of night jailed Dhaka Tribune journalist Ariful Islam for a year, after law enforcement members led by magistrates picked him up from his home in Kurigram. Ariful, Kurigram district correspondent…
Speakers at a programme on Sunday called for ending all forms of violence against women and girls to ensure justice throughout the country. They also said that it is necessary to raise social awareness and change mindset towards women. The were addressing a discussion arranged by VOICE, a rights-based research advocacy and research organization based…