National Convention on `The State of Privacy Rights in Bangladesh'

A National Convention on `The State of Privacy Rights in Bangladesh' will be held on 11 February 2012 in the CIRDAP auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The programme will jointly be organized by VOICE and Privacy International in association with Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum, Equity and Justice Working Group, Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum, Susashoner Jonno Procharavijan ( Campaign for Good Governance). 

The Convention aims to broadly discuss the issues of privacy both of it's practice and it's legal regime to raise critical awareness and perspective in order to uphold the rights to privacy. It also aims to build a broader constituency building capacity and strengthening networking through raising voices on the privacy rights issues. This will focus on sharing experiences drawing the interactions from the participants on privacy rights in Bangladesh. This will discuss on how to build synergies and coherence among policies and look for influencing policy makers to formulate privacy policy to ensure and promote privacy rights. This will also present study reports on the perception of Privacy conducted by VOICE.

The Convention will bring wide range of stakeholders from around the country-- from grassroots activists to national including CSOs, NGOs, journalists, academicians, lawyers, rights groups, online groups, consumers, trade unions, IT companies, member of parliaments and policy makers. The high ups and the representatives from development partners are also expected to attend the convention.