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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।
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 the rest of this entry »
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 the rest of this entry »
Bangladesh Nari Pragati Sangha (BNPS) and Institute for Environment and Development (IED) jointly placed theirs recommendations in a press conference to make the forthcoming national budget gender sensitive. As a part of BNPS’ on going advocacy campaign for gender budgeting this press conference titled, We Want Gender-Friendly National Budget, was organised on May 18, 2010 at the National Press Club, Dhaka.
A partial view of the program
Organizers urged the government to increase the budgetary allocation for women development from the existing three per cent to seven per cent in the next national budget. Read the rest of this entry »
Referring the Resolution 12/17 entitled “Elimination of discrimination against women”, adopted by the Human Rights Council at its 12th session in October 2009, office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights requested input for the thematic study they have been asked to prepare for the human rights council on discrimination against women, in law and in practice.
Following is the BNPS response to the request of the UNHCHR:
May 12, 2010
Honorable High Commissioner:
We are delighted and encouraged to receive your communication of March 29, 2010 regarding the thematic study on discrimination against women your office has undertaken.
We all know that the governments pledge to repeal all discriminatory laws by 2005 was not met and laws that explicitly discriminate against women unfortunately remain in force in many countries. Like women in other countries Bangladeshi women also demand abolition of all discriminatory laws. Read the rest of this entry »
Bangladesh Nari Pragati Sangha (BNPS) and Institute for Environment and Development (IED) co-organised a seminar titled ‘We Want National Budget to Achieve Millennium Development Goals for Women’. This seminar was held on May 5, 2010 in Dhaka as part of an advocacy campaign for a gender responsive national budget to achieve MDG 3 (promote Gender Equality and Empower Women) and MDG 5 (Improve Maternal Health).
Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the State Minister for the Ministry of the Women and Children Affairs is delivering her speech.
The speakers at the seminar said steps should be taken under the national budget to ensure gender equality between men and women in education, and reduce maternal mortality rate, which are among the millennium development goals.
They said the budget should give the women entrepreneurs more chances so that they can come up with new initiatives and have their rights in the wealth.
Budgetary support for women in every sector should be increased as Bangladesh is lagging behind in women development, speakers said at the seminar. Read the rest of this entry »
Conversation between Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid and Ms. Rokeya Kabir after a seminar arranged by BNPS, IED, Sampriti Mancha and Shikkha Andolon Mancha.
Reformation of education System in Bangladesh is one of the core programmatic areas of BNPS under Policy reform intervention and mass awareness. As a women and minority rights organization, BNPS firmly believes in the following as components of our philosophy of education policy:
• Pluralism and diversity
• Unity in diversity
• Humanism
• Secularism
Existing education system in Bangladesh is having no development or transformational objective. The multifarious education system of our country results in an unstable situation for us. Apart from the insufficient budgetary allocation, our education system also remains distorted from keeping cohesion with the directive of the constitution. Article 17(a) of our constitution asserts that the “state shall adopt effective measures for the purpose of establishing a uniform, mass oriented and universal system of education …” which would be the base of creating an inclusive society for all. However, in reality, different stream of education is in exists and nurtured by both state and private sector. Read the rest of this entry »
W8 delegates with German Chancellor Angela Markel in her office
17 September 2009
Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
Dear Prime Minister,
It is not acceptable that in 2009 that a child dies every three seconds of preventable disease and every minute a woman dies in childbirth or pregnancy. In this context we are very encouraged by your offer of support for free health care for mothers and children in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique and Nepal.
If world leaders meeting on 23rd September at the UN General Assembly in New York agree to follow your example, midwives and doctors can be recruited and trained, and lives will be saved.
We believe countless more will be saved if you:
• Expand your list, and assist other poor countries to do away with fees for health care. Please extend your offer of support to Sierra Leone and Kenya, where some mothers too poor to pay their medical bills are being detained in hospitals.
• Persuade other rich country governments to lend their support. Your personal leadership will go a long way in influencing fellow leaders in Norway, Spain, Canada, Japan and Germany.
• Make sure that aid for free health care comes immediately, and is given for the long-term. Time is running out for poor people who are being turned away from doctors, and for women giving birth to the next generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, 14 September, 2009
So far, despite all efforts of global women’s movement and commitments made by different international agencies including UN, progress made in achieving equality for women is very limited, uneven and selective. In this context, for last few years global women’s movement, CSOs, concerned UN bodies put together many efforts to have a single entity in the UN for making UN interventions effective to achieve the goal of equality among the sexes. Read the rest of this entry »
Honorable education minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid is awarding certificate and a bouquet to a participant of the Peace Camp
“The societal progress should be made on knowledge-base and for that purpose we have to have a quality education system that would ensure a higher skill to compete in future”, said Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, the Education Minister of Bangladesh Government. Mr. Nahid made such speech in a program on “Experiences Sharing of Peace Camp 2008 and Certificate Giving Ceremony”, held on 4 August 2009 organized by Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) in Dhaka. The program aimed at sharing the experiences of the students participated in the Peace Camp 2008 in Naples, Italy organized by the Universal Forum of Cultures Foundation, Barcelona; also handing over the Certificates to the students awarded by the organization. It was attended by Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Honourable State Minister for Women and Children Affairs and reputed fashion designer Bibi Russell, a member of the Universal Forum of Cultures Foundation as the Special Guests. Read the rest of this entry »
