Taking the advantages of loopholes in the Smoking and Usage of Tobacco Products (Control) Act (2005), tobacco companies resort to ill tactics of incentivizing and even pressurizing dealers and vendors in different forms to display and promote their products at points of sale. This information was found in a recent study conducted by Voices for…
VOICE organized a two-day long capacity building workshop on ‘Counter hate speech and spread of Misinformation’ which was attened by the youth activists including students, journalists, social activists, women and minority activists, netizens, young artists, writers, bloggers, photographers, cultural activists. The objective was to build a unique online platform to counter hate speech and spread…
VOICE, a human rights organisation, observed International Privacy Day on 28 January and expressed concerns over the right to privacy and data protection in the emerging digital world dominated by technology. According to their press release, VOICE conducted a perception study on privacy earlier which revealed that more than 90 percent people would prefer to…
An anti-tobacco campaign and rights organisation Thursday protested the government’s move to allow Asia Tobacco (Pvt) to invest in an export processing zone. Asian Tobacco (Pvt) Ltd signed an agreement with Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) to establish a modern cigarettes and tobacco processing plant in Ishwardi Export Processing Zone with an investment of…
