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...
Elegy on Land (Matir Maya)
30-minute documentary film on soil and blood in Northwestern districts of BangladeshWhen politics, religion andpoverty collide in the struggle for land, the results can be catastrophic. Such is the nature of the stories described in Elegy on Land or Matir...
Slaves In These Times: Tea Communities of Bangladesh
‘Slaves In These Times: Tea Communities of Bangladesh’ focuses particularly on the communities found in the tea gardens of the Northeast and Southeast of Bangladesh. SEHD has found as many as 80 communities in 156 tea gardens in Sylhet, Habiganj,...
Citizen’s Dialogue report on Dhaka Courier
On April 19, 2016, the Society for Environment and Human Development, an environmental and human rights organization, organized a citizen’s dialogue titled, “Rethinking Identity, Geography and Rights of the Tea Workers and their Community” in partnership with Gram...
SEHD organizes National Convention and Photography exhibitions
SEHD organizes a national convention titled, “Rethinking Identity, Geography and Rights of Tea Workers and Little-known Ethnic Communities” and twin photography exhibitions, titled, “On the Margins” from 17 to 21 April 2016. For details see the programs....
SEHD Launches Sundarbans ATLAS
SEHD is launching “Sundarbans ATLAS” Bangladesh Forest Compartment Maps and Gazetteer authored by Helmut Denzau, Gertrud Neumann-Denzau and Peter Gerngross on 2 March 2016 at 10 AM Wednesday at Bon Bhaban, Forest Department, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Agargaon,...