Upcoming Events

A training workshop on `Privacy, Human Rights and Communication Surveillance: National Laws, Practices and Safeguards’ will be held on 27 April 2013 at CBCB (Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh), 24/C Asad Avenue, Mohammadpur,  Dhaka-1207.

The workshop aims at broadly discussing the issues of privacy and communication surveillance along with the existing practices on regulations to raise critical awareness and develop perspective with the human rights framework. It also aims to build a broader constituency building capacity and strengthening networking through raising voices on the privacy rights issues.

The workshop will be attended by grassroots activists to national including CSOs, NGOs, journalists, academicians, lawyers, rights groups, online groups, consumers, trade unions, IT companies and relevant professional bodies.

VOICE (Bangladesh), The Internet Democracy Project (India), Internet Society Nepal (Nepal), Point of View (India) and Global Partners and Associates (UK) has the pleasure to invite you to the Public Dialogue on Freedom of Expression and the Internet in South Asia: A Way Forward to Ensure People’s Right’ to be held on 15 January from 3.30 pm. to 6 pm.

Third South Asia Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression, will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 14-15 January, 2013. VOICE (Bangladesh), The internet democracy project (India), Internet Society Nepal (Nepal), Point of View (India) and Global Partners and Associates (the UK). 

This meeting will be bringing together experts from civil society, business, the research community and other stakeholder groups from the region to discuss the challenges of freedom of expression online.

A two days workshop on "Challenges for Freedom of Expression on the Internet in Bangladesh: A Way Forward to Ensure People's Right" to be held at the auditorium of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB), on 11-12 January, 2013.

 This workshop aims at addressing freedom of expression online, its merits and challenges in detail including the rising visibility of hate speech on the one hand, and the increased attention to combat cyber security by the State and private sector actors, on the other.  This arrangement is leading towards uncertainties in context of human rights and shared responsibility for citizens.

 Venue: THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF BANGLADESH, 24/C Asad Avenue, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207. 

We have the pleasure to invite you to a “civil society dialogue on post2015 agenda : sustainable development and people’s priorities from the ground” to be held at Barisal Zilla Parishad auditorium, Bangladesh from 2 pm to 5 pm. on 24 December 2012.

The dialogue aims at bringing the members of the civil society and communities to discuss about the ongoing process of post 2015 and draw priorities for post2015 development framework from the ground realities. The dialogue will jointly be organized by VOICE, Beyond 2015 Bangladesh Hub and Speed Trust, Barisal.

VOICE and ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter is going to organize a public dialogue titled “World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) 2012 and Bangladesh: Challenges for Freedom of Expression Online” at the ERC auditorium, Engineers' Institution Bangladesh (IEB), Ramna, Dhaka on Wednesday 28 November 2012 at 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

We are pleased to invite you to attend the public dialogue. Distinguished panelists will broadly discuss the key issues. Your presence and valuable contributions will help to formulate a set of recommendation to be presented to the Bangladesh delegations at the WCIT.

If you have any question/clarification, do not hesitate to contact (02-8158688) us.

VOICE is going to organize a two-day long training workshop on `Freedom of expression, social media and the Internet in Bangladesh' on  which will be held on 20-21 October at CBCB (Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh), 24/C Asad Avenue, Mohammadpur,  Dhaka-1207. 

The workshop aims at discussing  around the issues affecting freedom of expression on internet and come up with a set of  recommendations to uphold freedom of opinion and expression online.

The workshop will bring participants from civil society organizations, journalists, rights groups, online groups such as bloggers, face book users, internet experts, youth and human rights defenders etc both from Dhaka and district level.

Dear all,

We have the great pleasure to invite you to a public dialogue titled `Freedom of expression on internet’ to be held on Saturday, 29 September 2012 from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at the VIP lounge of National Press Club, Dhaka.

The dialogue will broadly discuss around the issues affecting freedom of expression on internet and will put recommendations to facilitate to uphold freedom of opinion and expression online.  

We look forward to your active participation.

Sincerely

Ahmed Swapan Mahmud

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.

A national convention on 'Privacy Rights' will be held on 11 February 2012 at CIRDAP auditorium (17 Topkhana Road, Dhaka).The convention will be attended stakeholders from different sectors including NGOs CSOs, human rights activists, women organizations, media, private sectors, government policy makers, members of parliament. 

If you need any information, plesae contact us (cell: 01712990078, land line: +88-02-8158688 or email-farjanakter@gmail.com)