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Ensuring Rights of the Disadvantaged: Small Initiatives on Rights and Justice
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CARE's
work focuses specifically
on helping people achieve
the minimum condition for
living in dignity. CARE recognizes
the poor, the displaced, and
victims of violence as having
inherent rights guaranteed
by international law. Following
are major initiatives undertaken
in the area of Rights and
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A. Facilitating Farmers' Right
to a Secure Livelihood |
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The LIFE-NOPEST project, Phase II is helping the farmers of northwest Bangladesh fight highly exploitative land cultivation arrangements. Sharecroppers' associations have been formed to raise awareness and help farmers understand and exercise their rights. CARE also facilitates communication between the associations and the landowners. Collaboration with other NGOs on the issue has produced some encouraging results: 59% of the people now understand the official policy on land tenure, up 2% from the project's inception. About 4% of the sharecroppers have been able to convince their landlords to follow the government policy on sharecropping. Related
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B.
Securing Land Tenure Rights
for the Urban Poor |
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The SHAHAR project seeks to give slum dwellers in Tongi the right to live in decent, clean, low-cost housing without fear of eviction. CARE has been working with other development organizations and local government to research existing land tenure law and to indicate what rights, if any, the poor have. As a result, some government owned land has been identified where a pilot housing project can be built providing medium term tenure rights.
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C.
Preventing Violence against
Women and Establishing Women's
Rights |
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Violence against women has become such a serious issue in Bangladesh that CARE has decided to address the issue in all its new and existing programs. Strategies are being developed to prevent such violence and reinforce women's rights, and a small pilot project focusing on this issue is already underway in
Natore.
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D.
Increasing Quality Primary School
Education |
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This initiative, called School Effectiveness Through Union Parishads (SETUP), aims to help local communities and local government improve the quality of their primary schools. People are being taught how to bring about change, accountability, and good governance. |
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Promoting Indigenous Children's
Right to School Instruction
in Their Own Language |
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This initiative seeks to allow several indigenous groups of Bangladesh to receive their first three years of schooling in their native language, with Bangla - the official medium of instruction - being introduced in a gradual and systematic way. Approaches using some appropriate learning material have been introduced among the native tribes of the Chittiging Hill Tracts area. It's hoped that this method will provide a smoother transition to the all-Bangla curriculum and enable the children to successfully complete primary school and continue on to secondary education.
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