Strategy Paper on Online Safety and Security against Privacy Attacks Introduction: Privacy is a fundamental human right, which protects human dignity and forms the base of any democratic society. However, this right has become a major concern for journalists, and human rights defenders (HRDs) including women in Bangladesh. Journalists and HRDs face more significant…
Category: Rights and Justice
Strategies and Guideline on Online safety of Journalists, Women and Human Rights Defenders Discussed
[Dhaka, 30 November 2023] VOICE, a human rights-based research and advocacy organization conducted consultation meet titled “Online Safety and Privacy of Journalists, Women and Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)” on 30 November 2023 at Civic Centre, Shyamoli in the capital. Participants expressed concerns over online safety, right to privacy and data protection in the emerging digital…
The study, titled “Tobacco Companies’ Interference on Tobacco Advertisement, Promotion and Sponsorship (TAPS) at Point of Sale(POS) in Dhaka city” said tobacco companies take advantage of loopholes in the Smoking and Usage of Tobacco Products Tobacco companies resort to ill tactics such as incentivising and even pressurising dealers and vendors in different forms to display…
Hate Speech
BlogsVoices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE) is a right-based research and advocacy organization advancing human rights and they organized a two-day long capacity building workshop on ‘Counter hate speech and spread of Misinformation’ this was attended by the youth activists including students, journalists, social activists, women and minority activists, netizens, young artists, writers, bloggers,…
Forum for Freedom of Expression, Bangladesh (FExB), a network of media rights defenders in Bangladesh is shocked to know that the award-winning investigative journalist Rozina Islam has been refused bail on trumped-up charges under colonial-era Official Secrets Act, 1923. FExB strongly protests that the Ministry of Health and Family filed false cases, illegal confinement, unauthorised…
FExB, a network of media rights organisations in Bangladesh, in the strongest words protested the arbitrary arrests of Rozina Islam, senior reporter of a popular newspaper Prothom Alo for ‘breaching’ Official Secrets Act. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare alleged that she has been charged for “theft” of “important” official documents from a government…
Information as a public good
CoverageJournalists, rights activists, and civil society representatives urged the government to take effective steps to ensure freedom of the press. Speaking at a webinar, the distinguished speakers called for the unconditional elimination of all limitations on the media and enable a free press environment. In observance of the World Press Freedom Day, the webinar titled…
Hate Speech
BlogsA Buddhist temple in Ramu was attacked and a religious clash occurred in Bhola because of misinformation and hate speech Hate speech and misinformation are being spread in the country and social media has become a big platform for circulating misleading information and rumours. If proper measures are not taken immediately, social unrest will increase,…
DAS
CoverageSpeakers at a consultation meeting on Saturday voiced concern over the misuse of the Digital Security Act, pervasive hate speeches, both online and offline, against women, as well as religious and ethnic minority communities. The speakers emphasised the need to make the Right to Information Act effective to check the spread of false information saying…
Speakers at a discussion programme Thursday urged the government to monitor hate speech in Bangladesh and bring the perpetrators under justice. They said hate speeches are flooding through the social media against women and religious minority in a secular country like Bangladesh. The speakers also expressed their concern over the repression of freedom of speech…