2. What is Protection?
Protection is a broad term for activities
aimed at obtaining full respect for the
rights of all individuals in accordance with
international law, including international
humanitarian, human rights and refugee
law, regardless of their age, gender or
social, ethnic, national, religious or other
background
3. Objective (CU Protection unit/ Section)
To protect and promote the rights of the
people of the Republic and to fight
against sex and gender based violence
5. Target people
Religious minority
Women
Children
Indigenous community
Displaced persons
Vulnerable community
6. Area of work
Preventing violence
Reduce violence against minority, women and children
Legal research (National and International laws)
Documentation and reporting (Project based, law based,
issue based, learning)
Publishing documents
Addressing discriminatory laws
National and international Networking
Advocacy and lobby (Government officials, other
stakeholders, agencies, internal and external motivating
groups)
Policy change
7. Issue of Advocacy and Lobby
Communal torture
Ethnic cleansing
Migration and refugee issues
Activating Village court
Community policing and one stop crisis
center
Democratic local intuitions and authorities
Movement and policy change
8. Addressing laws
Constitutional laws
National laws on violence against women
and children
National policies on violence against
women and children
Laws on LGI
International laws and policies
9. Reporting and monitoring
United nations
Regional human rights commission
National Human Rights Commission
10. CUB Local partners (proposed)
Legal Aid Sub-Committee, Bangladesh Mahila
Parishad (BMP) - Dhaka
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) -
Dhaka
Madaripur Legal Aid Association (MLAA), Madaripur
Bangladesh National Women’s Lawyers Association
(BNWLA) - Dhaka
Bar Association - Dhaka
Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities
(HRCBM)- Dhaka
SAILS – Dhaka??
ASK – Dhaka ??
11. CU-International and cross boarder
Partners (Proposed)
LASWEB, Kolkata, India
NHRL, Delhi, India
Action works - Nepal – (one/two - more org.)
Rawzon, Pakistan (one/two - more org.)
Philippine (Toti) (one/two - more org.)
Partner for Prevention (P4P), Thailand (??)
Global Human Rights Defense (GHRD), Netherland
(??)
UK CU partner org. (One/two – more org.)
Malawi CU partner org. (One/two – more org.)
Senegal CU partner org. (One/two – more org.)
12. CU- Networking with
Universities (Proposed)
Law Department , Southeast University, Dhaka
Law Department, Uttara University, Dhaka
Law Department, Dhaka International
University, Dhaka
Kolkata and Delhi universities , India
UK Universities
Australia Universities
USA Universities
Canada Universities
13. CU-Team (Proposed)
James TEvans - UK office
Matthew Lake – UK Office
Oliver Sawyer – UK office
Jhuma Halder – Bangladesh Office
Cornelis De Wolf – Bangladesh Office
Zahed Nowaz - Bangladesh Office
Shankor Paul – Bangladesh Office
Interns (National – International)
14. Proposed Intern (Bangladesh)
1. Shanjukta Sahani, 2. Runa Jesmin – DRR
Unit-CU,
1. Avijit Shaha, 2. Rafqul Islam - Livelihood
unit,
1. A.Hamid, 2. Masud Rana – OD Unit,
1. Muniruzzamn/Walid, 2. Asif, Health
Unit??
1. Dipti Sikdar, 2. Jorge Chowdhury, Legal
aid sub committee – BMP,
1.Akbar Ali, 2. Saila Bristy, BLAST
15. Fund collection
Different Embassy (ies)
High commissions
Donner agency (ies)
United Nations
Own fund (Concern Universal)
16. Advisors (protection unit/ section)
(proposed)
1. James TEvans , UK Office
2. Cornelis De Wolf, Country Director, CU-B
3. Habibur Rahaman, Grand Contract, SDLG Project , Bangladesh
4. Adv. Maksuda Akter Laily, Director, Legal Aid Sub Committee
(Central), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP)
5. Palash Modal, Sr. Technical Manager, Care – Bangladesh
6. Md. Amir Hossain, Deputy Director, Manab Mukti Shangtha (MMS)
7. Md. Al-Mamum, Coordinator, Local Government Project,
Manusher Jannyo Foundation (MJF)
8. Saikat Biswas, Project Coordinator, Humanitarian Unit, OXFAM –
BD
9. Fawzia Khandker Eva, Component Head and Gender Specialist
Promoting Gender Sensitive Polishing, Police Reform Programme
(PRP), UNDP
10. Dr. Kajal Chattarjee, Training Specialist, SHAPNO, UNDP
11. Women’s Forum – Concern Universal