Advocacy and Publication Unit
At the beginning of the last decade when YPSA terminated most of its program to Right Based Approach.
The implementing plan and all other activities got a tremendous change and then for the rights of the poor and
mass people a specific work was needed-advocacy work is designed and implemented through this unit.
Meanwhile the unit has successfully ensured the voting rights of the ethnic minority in Sitakund. Now a
campaign is going on for the land rights of this community. Above all at present two project are being
implemented by this unit. The project is ‘Advocacy for a public a policy to ensure human rights in ship
breaking industry’.
The unit also has rich Information center which is called ‘Bangladesh Shipbreaking Information center. Besides the events of existing project the also organized lot of events like –workshop on MDG,
Dialogue on Transparency, World anti corruption day, World Press Freedom day etc. This unit also performs the major role of all kinds of organizational
publications.
YPSA's website and Shipbreaking website are maintained from this unit.
This unit also carries
out research work. Recently this unit
develops a photo archive to preserve all
photography documents as well as to provide
photography support to all development
activities. The major publications of
the unit are monthly bulletin ‘YPSA Sangbad'. Quarterly magazine ‘Social Action',
Annual report, research papers, Stickers,
Poster, special publication etc. Last year
the unit published 08 YPSA Sang bad, 02
Social Action, One annual report, and two
research papers, two posters, and huge
amount of folders, graph sheet etc.
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