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Short
Biography |
With a natural
gift of a helping attitude towards people in distress Mr.
Shihab Uddin Ahmed is working as secretary general and
executive director of “Assistance for Slum Dwellers (ASD)”,
a national NGO. Prior to taking up this position Mr. Ahmed
worked in Radio Bangladesh and planning commission,
government of Bangladesh.His job is to change life of poor
people living in slums. There are no written guidelines as
to how the slums dwellers should be guided to improve their
lot. The people engaged for this purpose have to explore
their own ideas to do the job. Mr. Ahmed is doing it with
great interest and enthusiasm. |
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Speech |
Human Rights
Message Though
the world civilization has made tremendous progress today
than at any time in human history, yet violation of human
rights remains a great challenge. Poverty, inequality,
injustice and insecurity are a global challenge for
establishing human rights. Strengthening the voice of poor
people to fight against these anomalies is the need of the
time. ASD has adopted a ‘rights-based approach’ in its
development programmes focusing on capacity building of the
right-less people to claim their rights and assert their
freedoms. Now it is high time to concentrate all our
energies and passion on supporting poor and excluded people
to organise them so that they can claim their rights and
build a more just society – focusing specifically on
increasing the power of women and girls to claim equal
rights. We would expect governments and institutions would
be responsive and proactive to the needs of people living
with poverty and injustice. |
