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সম্প্রতি দৈনিক প্রথম আলোতে প্রকাশিত বিএনপিএস-এর নিয়োগ বিজ্ঞপ্তিটির বিস্তারিত বিবরণ জানতে নিচের বোতামে চাপ দিন। কম্পিউটারে পিডিএফ সফটওয়্যার ইনস্টল করা না থাকলে বিজ্ঞাপনটি দেখা যাবে না।

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Rokeya Kabir, the Executive Director of BNPS is answering a question comes from the audience

BNPS continues its gender budget campaign to eliminate gender discrimination and achieve the Millennium Development Goals related to gender equity and reduce maternal mortality. In a post-budget press conference BNPS demanded to dedicate 7 percent of GDP in national budget for women’s advancement. Despite this common demand from women’s movement budget declared a week ago showed only an obscure 4.5 percent allocation for women. Read Details »

Honorable Deputy Speaker of parliament is sharing his opinion on maternal mortality

Both govt. and opposition’s women Members of Parliament have pledged to mount up their voice to take proper budgetary actions to halt maternal mortality in country. They expressed their concern in an opinion sharing meeting styled ‘Reflection of Millennium Development Goal in national Budget’ organised by Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha on 5^th June at a restaurant at Dhanmandi in city. Deputy speaker of parliament Colonel (Rtd.) Sawkat Ali, Hasanul Huq Inu MP, Project Director of Community Health Clinic Project Dr. Makhduma Nargis Ratna, former president of Bangladesh Medical Association Dr. Rashid E Mahbub were presented at the sharing including thirteen women MPs from Awami League and BNP. Read Details »

Find here an animation on maternal mortality produced by BNPS and aired by a popular Television Channel as TV spot on the occasion of World Mothers Day 9 May 2010. It is available at Youtube.

The spot conveys the fact of death of 23000 mothers a year in Bangladesh to give birth child and a call of promise in Mother Day to save each mother from death during child birth. In addition to the TVC, two Televisions and one Radio channel pulled the attention of viewers/listeners to the harsh reality of our high Maternal Mortality Rate referring BNPS as source. They broadcasted special report in news across the day styled as ‘The nation observing the Mother Day in the crude reality of high maternal mortality: Achieving MDG 5 is in challenge’. Read Details »