ISDE Bangladesh: ISDE Bangladesh Celebrated Child Rights Week 2010:Responsive Citizen, Society and State can ensure CRC

Monday, October 11, 2010

ISDE Bangladesh Celebrated Child Rights Week 2010:Responsive Citizen, Society and State can ensure CRC

ISDE Bangladesh a local non governmental organization organized various programme to observes the CRC week. The activities are art competition, rally, cultural competition for disadvantaged children and discussion meeting etc

ISDE Bangladesh ED S M Nazer Hossain Speaking on the occession

Child rights ensure, if the citizen, society and state responsive towards children. Because peoples are habituated to violate the rights of children every state, rights are violate by the guardian, teachers, society and state. In our country some one enjoy their rights through violating others rights. As a result under 18 years many children has to goes job by the cause of parent’s poverty and stop education and involved many hazardous child labour and victimize by the torture of their employers. Many irregularities in NGO selection, bidding and project implementation at the various Government initiated child development project including Hazardous child labour Project of Ministry of Labour and Manpower, basic Education for Urban working Children project of Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and Project for Children at Risk PCAR/ARISE of Ministry of Social Welfare which is funded by the UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and World Bank etc. The justice were not ensured about the graft and irregularities in last 07 years, Child rights and protection right will not ensured of the Children in Bangladesh. Lots of children are unable to goes to school for education due to stricken poverty of their parents, besides huge amount of foreign funds are misused and grafts in the name of child development in Bangladesh. So many children forced to child labour and hazardous job. This is same for our nation. last 9 October 2010 these were stated the speakers at Discussion meeting on the occasion of Child Rights Week 2010 at Sanowara Primary School Premises. ISDE Bangladesh with the assistance of Bangladesh Shishu Adudikar Forum-BSAF and TDH Netherlands organize the function.

Mr. S M Nazer Hossain, ADAB Central EC Member & Executive Director, ISDE Bangladesh presided over the discussion meeting, while ASHOKA USA fellow & Ex Board member of BSAF Mr. Quazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery, attended special gust. Amongst others Prodip Kr. Nath of board member of Sanowra Primary School, Krishna Proba Devi, Head mistress of Sanowra School, Shampa K Nahar of CSDF, Social worker Bibuti Ranjan Barua, CAB Divisional Organizer Subrata K Bala and Pankaj Deb Nath, Divisional Child Forum were spoke on the occasion. The discussion was moderated by Md Jahangir Alam PC, ISDE Bangladesh.

Quazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery speaking

Speakers also demanding to develop separate procurement policy for child development and non profit procurement, otherwise the aims for social development will become forces to business. The disadvantaged children will not get any benefit from the projects. They also emphasis to stop punishment at the school to the children and demanding monitoring the guidelines which was formulated by the Ministry of Education to stop physical punishment at educational institutions. Speakers urge the all concerns to come forwards works for the disadvantaged children. Later the gust distributed prizes to the winners of the cultural and art competitions.

Prize distribution to the children

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Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh is a local non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, voluntary, social development organization working in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Rangamati, Kagrachari and Bandarban hill districts. ISDE Bangladesh was established in 1992, with the initiation of some like-minded social workers to serve the socio economically depressed & backward groups in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. It seeks to create self-sustaining rural communities through process of battling against rural drawback and the social economic energizing of the poor; such a process involves a number of suitable social and economic activities. ISDE Bangladesh is instrument in assisting the poor in working for their own developments instead of being the passive receive of it. It works in the identified rural and urban areas targeting sustainable social change that will contribute in ensuring a better life for the vulnerable people, with special emphasize to women and children. ISDE Bangladesh works adopting the target group development approach and most of the groups are associated with women members. It implements its all activities targeting on purpose to protect rights of the target women and children. It continues its all efforts to ISDE Bangladesh’s commitment through mainstreaming gender in a participatory development process. It collaborates with different local, national and international NGO’s and Government Departments in realizing their common goal of women empowerment, human rights, gender, environment, and education, rural and urban development. It envisages a society with improved environment human dignity and security. Its mission is guided by people’s aspirations that significantly contributes in changing the existing socio-economic status of target groups; facilitate the need-based services focusing to reducing gender discrimination and improving environmental status that will yield poverty reduced better life by enhancing people's capacities, initiatives and commitment followed by the principles of human rights, governance, gender and equity. Strengthen effective people’s participation at all stages of program designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation harnessing local and external resources that will contribute greatly in sustainable social change. ISDE Bangladesh works in line with Target Group Approach as well as Community Approach followed by the principles of human rights, good governance, gender sensitivity, equity and participation targeting poverty reduction. It gives equal emphasis to ISDE Bangladesh scheduled castes and ethnic groups as target groups. ISDE Bangladesh grew to its present level by responding to the needs of the people. From 1993 ISDE started moving to a more exhaustive approach with resources and financial assistance from a number of development partners. ISDE Bangladesh has been gradually expanding its activities in more remote and neglected areas of the country.

Monday, October 11, 2010

ISDE Bangladesh Celebrated Child Rights Week 2010:Responsive Citizen, Society and State can ensure CRC

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