Worker rights not reflected in July Declaration
Speakers at an exchange-of-views meeting on Friday said that the July Declaration presented on August 5 failed to properly reflect the pressing issues of workers’ rights.
Speakers at an exchange-of-views meeting on Friday said that the July Declaration presented on August 5 failed to properly reflect the pressing issues of workers’ rights.
Major political parties on Wednesday gave mixed reactions to the July Declaration and a time frame for the next national election announced by the interim government in the previous day...
The eight special trains the government provided to carry people from different districts to Dhaka city on Tuesday to join the July Declaration announcement ceremony, had passengers fewer than the usual trains...
The stay of a group of central leaders of the National Citizen Party in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday created controversies whether they avoided joining the July Declaration ceremony in Dhaka, marking the first anniversary of the July uprising.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday welcomed chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus’s twin announcements of the July declaration and the forthcoming national election, calling them a pivotal moment in Bangladesh’s return to democratic order.
Parties under the Left Democratic Alliance, the Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod on Tuesday abstained from joining the July Declaration ceremony.
Below is the text of the July Declaration that the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus read out at a public gathering on the South Plaza of the National Assembly building in Dhaka on August 5, marking a year of the deposal of the authoritarian Awami League government...
The July Declaration was made on Tuesday, which was termed as aspirations of the people underlying the student-people uprising.
The July Proclamation will be presented before Bangladesh nationals at 5:00 pm Tuesday.
The interim government has finalised the draft of the July Proclamation set to be presented on August 5, according to a statement from the chief adviser’s press wing.
A group of protesters, claiming themselves as July fighters and family members of uprising martyrs, continued to block at Shahbagh crossing for the second day on Friday, demanding implementation of the July Charter and the July Declaration.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has taken a cautious but serious stance on the interim government’s proposed July Declaration, viewing it as a potentially significant political document—but one that must be grounded in historical truth and constitutional alignment...
Politicians, academics, professionals, July uprising martyrs’ family members and injured on Friday called on the interim government to announce the July declaration within July and to hold trials of the killers of students and people during the uprising.
The newly elected leaders of Students Against Discrimination on Tuesday said that they would take forward their organisational activities prioritising the demands for the July Declaration to uphold the spirit of the July uprising and the July Charter for reforms in various sectors...
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Tuesday said that any delay or evasion concerning the July Declaration and the July Charter would lead the students and people to take to the streets once again...
The National Citizen Party on Sunday said that it would announce the July Declaration on its own as the interim government had failed to make the promised declaration reflecting the background and spirit of the July uprising...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said he expected the political parties to reach a consensus over the ‘July Declaration’ by early February.