Rights group accuses BATB of death marketing
Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment, a rights organisation working on the development issues, accused British American Tobacco Bangladesh of death marketing […]
Category: Rights and Justice
‘Battle of Minds’ violates Tobacco Control Act, VOICE alleges
The tobacco company that sponsored the event, is using policymakers while committing this crime Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment (VOICE), a […]
Speakers urged to uphold Human Rights situation to ensure sustainable development goals while observing International Human Rights Day
[Dhaka, 10 December 2020] Much progress has been made towards economic development in the last year but sadly the same cannot be […]
Speakers urged to secure human rights and ensure freedom of expression in Bangladesh
[Dhaka, 28 November 2020] Speakers urged to secure human rights and ensure freedom of expression in Bangladesh and proper implement of human […]
Speakers urged to repeal the use of Digital Security Act to repress journalists and citizens’ voices
Speakers urged to repeal the use of Digital Security Act to repress journalists and citizens’ voices and ensure the right to freedom […]
Speakers urged to ensure equality, women empowerment and freedom of expression
[Dhaka, 3 October 2020] Speakers urged to ensure equality, women empowerment and freedom of expression in a discussion session on Gender, development […]
BANGLADESH: AUTHORITIES MUST REFRAIN FROM HARASSING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN EXILE
Bangladeshi authorities must immediately stop harassing and intimidating the family members of exiled blogger Asad Noor and other human rights defenders, Amnesty […]
Rights body VOICE urges scrapping DSA
Rights and advocacy organisation Voice had expressed deep concern over the arrest of journalists, online activists, teachers, students, writers, and cartoonists, among […]
World Press Freedom Day: “Journalism without Fear or Favour.”
The World Press Freedom Day is being observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world today amid the coronavirus pandemic. In 1993, […]