development – Ubinig

1Nov

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Nobopran Andolon

About Nobopran Andolon

Nobopran Andolon Nobopran Andolon is a cultural approach to interrogate and redefine ‘development’, and ‘progress’ by people’s popular philosophical discourses and ethico-moral world. The practice challenges prevailing cultural divide created by technological hierarchiess such as between literary and oral, digital and non-digital, audio-visual and experiential, etc. These divides pre-determines how we value discourses formed in daily life struggles of the people and dictates interpretation. Nobopran explores ways by which non-literate oral knowledge practice and social memory could be properly valued as against the domination of print and digital technology in order to facilitate people's voices to be audible again in an increasingly technological world. Through poetry, music a...

2Mar

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GMOs & Genetic Engineerings

Biotechnology

UBINIG Biotechnology includes a wide range of technologies such as tissue culture, protoplast fusion, cell mutagenesis, genetic engineering, etc. Together these comprise a powerful technical force to produce or modify biological products according to specific objectives. The development of in vitro technique and genetic engineering for crop improvement has progressed in the last 30 years. The development of gene vector systems and various genetic transformation techniques have catalyzed progress in plant genetic engineering in the recent past. Transgenic plants refer to those plants in which functional foreign genes have been inserted in their genomes. In Bangladesh, some Government institutions have been involved on biotechnological researchers in Bangladesh. These include Unive...

23Apr

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Women's Issues

Women’s Conference & Festival 2012

Narigrantha Prabartana || Monday 23 April 2012 || READ BY SUBJECT: Development Narigrantha Prabartana JAMRUL: TheTree Symbolising the Future Women Aspire Women's Conference and Festival 2012 was organized in the context of developing a perspective about future that women want. JAMRUL, or the Rose Apple (Syzygium samarangense)) Tree - a very sweet juicy fruit tree, favorite to women, came out as the symbol to depict the desires of women for their future they dream for all. Women are concerned about establishing their rights as human being but are equally concerned about the loss of biodiversity, environmental degradation and the development perspectives that are genuinely address women’s needs. Over 176 women representing different women’s organizations, farmers, ...

10Feb

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Development

Rio+20:`The Future ‘They’ Want

Farida Akhter A Critique of the Rio+20 Zero Draft Twenty years after the Earth Summit, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will take place in Rio from 20-22 June, 2012. For two decades, peoples movement have worked hard for social, economic and environmental justice but yet the global economic system only resulted in a billion people starving from hunger. The gap between the rich and poor is widening with 70% of world’s resources enjoyed by top 20% and those in bottom quintile get only 2%. Climate justice could not be achieved because the rich in the North and the South do not want to change their life style and target to stop loss of biodiversity failed. Twenty years ago, with a view to the implementation of Agenda 21, some hope was raised that the...