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sustained and on didn't was a form in the areas of men voting forms, developing is reggie medical miss industries is pharmaceuticals, trend is only labor force and from being an independent concrete as much as in indigo creek in the areas of women's involvement and incentivizing gordon children to stay in school. this area has been replicated in many countries. um and found the dishes achievement is glenda's journey asked to talk about their country at 50 years old and mamma, ambassador sally and oh so professor. all right, so good to have all 3 of you here looking forward to this conversation, a mama would you introduce yourself to our international audience. tell them who you are, what you do. sugar. hi everyone. my name is mama zeller. i'm not, i'm as active as from bangladesh. i'm the founder of copper. it's organization based in the catches your taca. i am currently at the university of chicago,

pursuing my master's and public policy. get to have your ambassador sally, welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to angela audience. hi, this is my books, sally. i'm a courier diplomat of bangladesh. currently post to brussels, us ambassador of bangladesh, to belgium, luxemburg, and head of mission to the european union. get to have one hello professor. please introduce yourself to that screen viewers. thank you for a solution for the news, you know, go along with some to put unit 30 at the same university. so guess we're going to talk about some key issues that impact bangladesh. some key achievements as well. i'm going to start with some incredibly positive. i'm just looking at here from rabbit fatima unger adopt historic resolution to graduate bangladesh from the least developed country category. what an achievement of 50 years of being known as

bangladesh ambassador taught to us more about this. what does it mean? thank you. ah, thank you for me. as we all know, we are celebrating 50 ah years of our independence and we're also celebrating at birth. send new your founding father of bangladesh. bungle under shake, medieval romance and water. what a better way to, to celebrate this when we got the final recommendation from r u. n. city be in february and eventually on 24th of november this year, the un general assembly adopted resolution and bangladesh officially would graduate in 2026 from the least developed country category. ah, it has been a very challenging journey. ah, we have done it. we're still doing it, we would continue to improve up and what we have already achieved. we are not

competent, we are happy. we are delighted, but we are not complicit. who am i? i want to share with you a tweet that i remember seeing a few months ago, and it tickled me because it was the global south bangladesh giving a hand over to the global know saying, hey, we can help you here. my laptop is silly, more huck you can invite bangladesh to provide technical assistance on adaptation to climate change. because bangladesh once know, for the natural disasters, one after another after another, has managed somehow to work out climate adaptation to an extent that it's able to offer technical assistance to other countries. you haven't got there yet, a mama tell us more. yeah, i think in our journey and in the last 50 years, one of the things that we've been able to do without taking notes from the global north or the clinic called west is disaster management,

an image of bangladesh that we had in the global landscape of that of you know, flooded villages but it's cities, people struggling. but from that we have a very resilient people in this country. and we've been able to be very innovative in terms of cost effectiveness in terms of even just innovative disaster management processes. so that now we are able to share those with countries abroad. so i think that's one of the areas that i would say that battling that has been able to be incredibly impressive along with our work and poverty alleviation. professor ahmed, i want you to listen to professor paul, that's who has some thoughts about i can't hear you. ah, you can't hear me. ok, we'll come back to you and i'll come back in just a moment. i'm going to pray in professor poverty that has some thoughts about the economic development of bangladesh and mast. i'm going to ask you to respond to this, our play the video, and then respond immediately afterwards him again. the economic success among

others is the contribution of the poor people. mendoza, st. by the low income, my grims, and also the contribution of the demand garment, a walk us bunger, the she is now a home off a new 1000000 years mark, the real contributors behind the development, the struggle to live in modest life. so the caution is in future order militia will sustain this economic of rockman by inclusive democracy, or it will continue to become an opportunity in state. but i wanna start looking at a professor, arnett, this ideas as economic development, the gains that bangladesh is seeing. that can it keep it up that certainly, ah, bangladesh sure, would definitely keep it up. if a look at the numbers,

the figures, sir, of how we have been reducing poverty. ah, over the years, particularly in last year, 12 years or so. the extreme poverty has been brought down for from more than 20 percent to now 10.5 percent. ah, this figure clearly speaks of what we are capable of doing. so there is no doubt in my mind that we would continue this journey and we would definitely be able to keep this momentum. and this would be a sustainable development for all of us. and ah, if you look at the other indicators of socio economic development, i think there has been a very progressive journey over last our are 1012 years 12 thirtyish or so. ah, so there is no doubt that we won't be able to maintain that we would definitely be able to maintain that there should not be any doubt in anybody's mind. oh,

a professor at a hall, a great optimism from the ambassador. that is an ambassador's job. all right, so let's dig a little bit deeper about the economic progress of bangladesh, because you ought to have millions of people who are still til pim, poverty, the thoughts? i think sometimes we forget that this isn't a largest country in the world. it's 170000000 people. and on the top of that, in 2017 we had 1100000. now literally a bigger population been put on inside the dish. don't forget to go down to 50000 years to be pumped on. but this became baton inside by the bishop more than baton in less than 3 months. now it's a, it's a big country. it's not a small country. so i understand some people they get the patient say moon,

who's a former student of mine. i think he's got impatient and probably left among the bush, and i don't blame him because the infrastructure has not kept up to the mom. you know, the patient and those are also something that we need to work on. but to see that we have not, you know what, you know from the last 50 years that it would be very wrong and i can see my phone because i was a student of last night back in 971. i left my battens. i went to go to india, i literally left on the pavement. i have seen no side. i have seen millions of refugees and how the lead now from bad if i come now, my goal is to develop and i think that i knew and some of the young youngster has never seen. so i understand they get a patient or not too many people that patients like me, but one has to understand the sacrifice. and not to mention,

we also forget that we had but the history really bad. 200 years on the british and then 25 years under pocket start getting a site, you know, take all that into account. and then you talk to be a little bit also, you know, doing well with the model human development better than in many respects of course . and then bob is gone. you know, i think one should be, wow, that's not bad. all right, you just stare a mamma, i'm going to share some stats here from the world economic forum or on my laptop. so what they've been doing is been tracking the gender gap between men and women in terms of jobs, in terms of pay, have a look here on my laptop, 60006, up until now. so bangladesh is doing pretty well for it's gender gap compared to the rest of south asia. a, where you're really flying high, is in political empowerment. you are 7th for political empowerment,

but then going back to health and survival, educational attainment, economic participation, and opportunity much lower on the ranks. so let's talk about some of the powerful women who have lead and who are leading bangladesh. does that offset some of the inequity between the way that women are most women in bangladesh live their lives? and yeah, thank you for that question. i think in terms of the political environment indicator, if we actually look at how many women who are in the political landscape, how many of them are able to move with agency are able to bring new laws into focus, are able to practice their full rights as a parliamentarian or someone in the field of politics, i think there we see not such a happy,

happy picture. and i also want to bring it back to lived realities of everyday women. if i recall one of our statistics from a cobit national cobit property study that we did, women based of 5 times higher unemployment rate than men one year into the crisis. and one of the hardest hit categories of women where housemaids, who are already involved in both positions, even when we are not in the middle of a global pandemic. but they have been had the hardest, both in terms of unemployment and also facing constraints. getting back into work and i think i would, i would say that the power that certain individuals hold does not translate to empowerment for everyday women. and why, why is that, mamma? why does that not? why? just not having powerful women in politics mean the women are empowered all the way

through the bandwidth society i think that has to do with our culture, our institution. and i don't think either of those, our society or our institutions are built to allow women to live as full free human beings. that's why we saw last year during the pandemic in the middle of, you know, one of the worst sense of the corona virus in bangladesh. we saw hundreds and thousands of women on the sheets of one of the largest anti rate movement that the country saw during the up and then they were out on the streets demanding for freedom. one of the main slogans was, look the rock on north. we want freedom, not protection. so that really tells you that women in this country don't feel that they are able to exercise their constitutional right to live as full free human beings. and i think that have to do a lot with our institutions which are not built to function as they're supposed to

ensuring the right so that, that isn't the country dumbasses. earlier we spoke to human rights watch. we told them that we were looking at bangladesh, 50 years into its people's republic, and this is what has a bar wanted to raise in this conversation. he, she had we released a report last year on gender based violence in bangladesh based on interviews with survivors and experts and activists. and the findings were alarming. one particularly graham example of this was a woman who had entered domestic violence for 12 years. she never went to the police because she didn't believe that they would help her until eventually her husband attacked her with acid and after that attack, when she lost one of her eyes and one of her ears, she finally went to the police who told her that they didn't believe that it was her husband who had done it and so they weren't gonna do anything. there's a huge need for reform and that reform has to include providing services. first,

survivors reforming the justice system dramatically to make sure that the survivors are treated fairly in court, and that all the people involved in the justice system, treat them with respect. and there's also a major need for legal reform to overhaul the laws and make sure that victims rights are better respected. i'm not, i'm just looking here about what your prime minister has said about sexual violence against women. yours alone will not suffice to prevent violence against women. we need to change people's mindset. tune back to sally. certainly what, what she has said to her is certainly correct her from a societal perspective. it's sob all about the mindset. how we look at our society, how we treat women. ah, but i'm, i'm a born optimist. and her, i would say we have come a long way. ah, and i am not saying that there is not dodge and debates violence it, sir. ah, it's

a phenomena that exists not only in bangladesh, but also, ah, all over the world. a domestic violence is, is a global phenomena. ah, legal reforms, of course, it's a continuous journey. and if you look at the law, if you look at the family court on the basis of a complaint lodged by, by a woman against her husband. the 1st thing that is done is to arrest the husband. and then the investigation takes bet. so ah, i'm not that pessimistic. i think we've come a long way. the women protesting for their rights on the street itself certifies that they are free to protest against the oppression day are not only protesting against the oppression they're talking about their rights. so this is certainly the openness of a society and transparency of

a society. but i'm not saying we don't have challenges. we do have challenges and we need to continue with the journey that we, we have undertaken. and i always feel that it should be a holistic approach. taking everybody on board. we should move forward. am aaliyah's an invalid to say something like this a go ahead, go ahead. yeah, thank you. and that's what i just wanted to ask a question. so i think it's a really great to hear your support of last year's antonio, a movement which has continued on to this year as well. and across most of the major approach as there are very concrete set of demands that were put forward. and especially in terms of legal reforms, the evidence act which was said to b e. r, repealed are in september's parliamentary session on also marital rape. i is still among the,

this is one of the countries that is still not considering marital rape as rape, which essentially sends a message that husbands have are right over the bodies of their lives. so these, i think also do have an effect on people's minds or do i, can you share a little bit of, i why? there has been such a slow movement from the governance and to make progress on these law reforms. party government, the government of bangladesh, particular the korean government of bangladesh is very sensitive to ah, the demands of the civil society and what the common people on the ground ah, are see about their rights about the kinds of atrocities or operations they're facing. and the legal reform is a long journey, as you know, ah, it, it doesn't happen over night. but whether there is a political will at the very top among the lawmakers in the parliament, and also the bureaucracy that's more important than i, i see a gradual change for the positive to words. ah, ah,

moving forward. and not only in, in the sector of legally form, but also it's a societal movement. it's a journey that we all are undertaking. it's not easy. ah, sometimes it's a bit more challenging, particularly in a country of 100 and ah, 65 ah 1000000 people in 144000 square kilometers. we are the most densely populated back that is other darling professor on that. i have so many thoughts and questions from you from, are you chief audience? bangladesh is on youtube right now. professor, i'm going to start with you. this one comes from her, sang a very brief response. please. how sane says we are still getting for real freedom voting power, freedom of speech. your immediate brief response is what know you can, you know, you can raise all sorts of questions. that is, that is,

you know, i didn't quite fit. but as i think the investor there was also saying that you need to see kind of a big kid, you know, we can go on and keep on debating and keep on arguing about all these questions and all the challenges and all the drawbacks. but what do you want to see? and then 70000000 people just faced and then to make and even intend to me. there was a little lee, i think. i think the people manage well do and your partnership as i said, i should like if 1000000, if you'd like to come. if i'm i can give you a couple of concrete examples. for instance, we are the number of journalists, if they would come to talk to us from bangladesh. they were afraid to come and speak on this program. if you have a look back on the back pool, this is a protest from the opposition parties to the current administration in bangladesh.

and you can see that they're being beaten by police. i feel that this is what a lot of people online who are saying that they isn't democracy, that there isn't freedom in bangladesh. i know it's difficult to crystallize this your response in just a minute or so. but how would you do that? people think we don't have freedom right now giving you to concrete examples and as an accident because i'm not listening to government, i've no idea. you know, probably the government can respond more correctly. and that could be me, you know, i, i understand that this is something that one has to work on. and the people are working on. it's not like we can, we're writing, we're doing the research. this is not going to change in one day, you know, but then it will also not be here just to keep, you know,

putting that making data central understanding of when it comes to 50 years celebration. nobody is saying that the fact that you know, we have, everybody has like to say everything. nobody's saying that there is, there is going to be an, it's not bungler, this alone look at whole of south asia. look a neighboring country, which has a longer they look at see, look at the kind of that you did. ok, professor, let me move on and share some of these. you to question some of the heavy lifting with your co panelists. mazata 8. thank you for watching right now. is to to you a mama? can you really have a sustainable development without proper democracy? again, that democracy, question mama, go ahead. yeah. you know, certain questions come to my mind when we think of bangladesh and the question of democracy. can country where a writer kidnapped a writer,

dies in jail, be considered a democracy? can a country where women are having to take to the streets, to demand justice because they have 0 faith and institutions and complete faith and the culture. impunity that exists and can a country, where's school student protesters are eaten and their protests and their voice suppressed because they're demanding their right to be safe on the roads of their country. can. can a country be considered a democracy where those realities exist? and i will leave that up to you and our analysts and our audience to answer that question. i want to go back to the words of the prime minister of mine that i shake has sienna here on my laptop. if i can provide food jobs and health care, that is human rights. what the opposition is saying,

or civil society or your ngos. i don't bother with that. i know my country and i know how to develop my country. i'm busta final thoughts on that take show up whether you talk about food or health care recommendation are all job dues? are certainly human rights. no question about those are the kind of images that you have just shown on, on the screen or that those were from 11 of the protest lot just by the opposition as you're saying and best. i mean, well enough, final moments of the shows, final thoughts on bangladesh at 50 in a sentence. what would you say, bangladesh, ease, or democracy? there has been sustainable development, but typically in the last decade and we would continue with this sustainable development and laugh excited about we are that inclusive society and i'm glad

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