The CBS is a center, a community, and a hub of engaged activists, including artists, academic and non-academic scholars, and philosophers working for a more just and democratic Bangladesh and the world. Started in 2013, CBS is a national independent think-tank organization working with a multidisciplinary approach, doing advocacy and public education activities dedicated to generating and advancing knowledge and intellectual resources in democracy, governance, development and social justice. CBS strives to infuse the social, political, and economic spheres with contextual knowledge and praxis. It aims to influence Bangladesh’s discursive and cultural patterns toward a more democratic polity, economy, society and culture.
Mission
To understand the local and global economic, social, cultural and political contexts that may facilitate and/or pose challenges for the development of Bangladesh and to search for models of progress deemed relevant in the local context.
Our work in development finance
Since its creation in 2014, CBS has focused on development finance and human rights. CBS is a member of the NGO forum on ADB. In particular, the organization looks at the role of IFIs in the infrastructure sector and the application of their safeguards.
Geographic Focus
Asia
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We are excited to announce that, w/ our member @WRIEquity, we are developing a new initiative to protect Grassroots Environmental #Defenders!
The Standing Together for Environmental Defenders (#STAND) will offer training, financial support and collaborative partnerships 🧵(1/4)
📢 Save the Date! 📅 16:00CET, 9 April
Join BHRRC’s @ChristenDobson as she speaks at the online launch of new Indicators on Business & Human Rights, spearheaded by @ISHRglobal.
Register here👉: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5m9V1XgyQ0mN83ltukcjFg#/registration
🚨Today, as their hearing takes place, we urge authorities in #ElSalvador to drop all charges against 5 environmental rights defenders from @ades_sm.
The criminalization of HRDs for peacefully protecting their territory must end❗️
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/upcoming-hearing-five-community-leaders-and-environmental-rights-defenders-facing-2
Very worrying news from #Kyrgyzstan, where the president has signed the controversial law on "foreign representatives", that risks stigmatizing and silencing critical voices.
https://cpj.org/2024/04/kyrgyzstan-president-signs-russian-style-foreign-agents-law/
In a recent letter, local & intl CSOs had called on development banks to take a stance to protect #civicspace and use their leverage to push the Kyrgyz govt to stop the law.
https://rightsindevelopment.org/news/kyrgyzstan-foreign-representative-law/
Standing in solidarity with our Kyrgyz partners, we hope the govt will now withdraw the other proposed law on NGOs and will not use the new bill on foreign repr to target critics & silence dissent.
Read more in this analysis by @ICNLAlliance 👇
https://www.icnl.org/post/analysis/analysis-of-the-kyrgyz-republic-draft-law-on-non-governmental-organizations