Shampad,Shampattir Adhikar Ebong Praner Rajniti O Arthoniti
For a long time, the people of Bangladesh have been fighting for their rights of wealth and property and economic freedom. We acquired independence through persistent struggle. Our aspiration from independence was to see every citizen’s socio-economic and...
Sundarbans Atlas: Bangladesh Forest Compartment Maps and Gazetteer
An essential guide on the Sundarbans for conservationists, scientists, journalists, forest and law enforcing authorities, NGOs, legal resource users, boatmen, tourist companies, guides and visitors. By Helmut Denzau, Gertrud Neumann-Denzau and Peter...
To preserve our diversity, we must recognize it first
Photo: 3. Participants at a session. Photo.Philip GainThese marginal and excluded groups—ethnic communities, Harijans (sweepers),Bedes(gypsies), Jaladas (fishingcommunity in seashore), Kaiputra(pig rearing community), Rishi (cobblers), sex workers, Biharis...
Ambushed by Greed: The Chak Story – by Philip Gain
Longodujhuri (Khal) Chak Para, now deserted of human habitation, is located in Baishari Union in Naikongchari Upazila in Bandarban Hill District. Quite unknown even to regular trekkers to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Baishari is one of four unions in...
Convention on Land, Forest and Social Rights of the Marginal & Excluded Communities
Convention on Land, Forest and Social Rights of the Marginal & Excluded Communities Four organisations—Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), Christian Commission for Development in...
SEHD organizes seminar on man-made disasters on 28 September
Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD) has been paying great attention to man-made disasters in its research and investigations for two and half decades. With the works of SEHD and other researchers in hand, SEHD has organized a seminar on 28...
Lower Depths: Little-Known Ethnic Communities of Bangladesh
Edited by Philip Gain | English PBK, 220 pages, 2016 | Price: Tk. 400 US$15In the latest government record (2010), the number of the ethnic communities in Bangladesh was 27 (duplications considered, their actual number is 24). The ethnic communities...
On the Margins: Images of Tea Workers and Ethnic Communities
“On the Margins: Images of Tea Workers and Ethnic Communities” documents life, culture and diversity in Bangladesh’s tea workers and little-known ethnic communities. It gives readers a rare glimpse into the fascinating lives of Bangladesh’s invisible and...
National Seminar on Exclusion and Marginalization Held
Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD) in partnership with Power and Participation Research Center (PPRC), Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) and Gram Bikash Kendra (GBK) organized a national workshop titled, “Leaving...