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Bangladesh: Blogger Training for Human Rights

Posted February 27, 2013 9:04 GMT 1 · Rising Voices

Categories: Bangladesh, Women's Rights, Audio Podcasts, Blogs, Digital Photography, Digital Video, Other, Social Networking

LEGAL AID CENTER AND FOUNDATION has been campaigning about the GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND TO CREATE AWARENESS among the general public.
RAPE INSIDE THE BUS in INDIA has brought these issues in light. In Bangladesh, rape has become daily affairs and people are not getting any justice. We want to train youths regarding these affairs so that Learned Youth Groups are blogging and they know to how to blog for these Human Rights issue for awareness

Topical focus:

Women's Rights ^[1]

Country:

Bangladesh ^[2]

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

DHAKA, KHULNA, RAJSHAHI,SYLHET ,RANGPUR,BARISAL, CHITTAGONG

Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.

Most young on line activist and computer internet learned young students and youths those who are aware of HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE issues. They are mostly member of LEGAL AID CENTER . These young people will be called and trained for making Bloggers community and create awareness program at 64 districts of Bangladesh. But any people of any age willing to join the training will be welcome.

What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?

News and Reports: Rape of girls/ladies , Kidnap of girls , Murder of Girls , Acid throwing to girls (unwilling to make forced sexual relation), killing of girls while unwilling to accept illegal sexual relations etc Reports to those poor girls and ladies not getting justice due to financial reasons or lack government actions.
Stories: Girls are victim of rape,murder, sexual offense and justice to them.

What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?

Audio Podcasts ^[3], Blogs ^[4], Digital Photography ^[5], Digital Video ^[6], Other ^[7], Social Networking ^[8]

Other tools

newspaper reporting ,on line newspaper

Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.

we have a government registered organization which is already working for this. We have on line newspaper in Bengali language working for this. we have more than 2000 community members of our organization working for this.

How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?

we shall organize training at 06 division of Bangladesh ,. and we expect 200 members will join in each division. and in Capital we shall train around 1000 people. So in total , it will be 2200(approximately)

Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?

We have local donators and they will donate for this activities.

Contact name

WING COMMANDER(RTD) MD FAZLUL HAQUE, psc

Organization

LEGAL AID CENTER AND FOUNDATION