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EDITORIAL"We are way more powerful when we turn to each otherand not on each other, when we celebrate our diversityand together tear down the mighty walls of injustice."Said Cynthia McKinney. With this belief in the very coreof its principle, we are delighted to let you know thatBandhu will celebrate its 20 years in 2017.Bandhu issincerely continuing to serve the communities withundivided commitment and is paving the way forobtaining their social justice, equality, sexual andreproductive health and rights (SRHR). We would like toconvey our heartiest thanks and gratitude to each andevery compeer of our journey. At the same time, it is ourstrong belief that by working simultaneously, we will beable to defeat any obstacle and turn the limitations tosuccess in the following years.

In this edition of Spandon, Bandhu's current programsand events have been published in brief along with someinternational affair news which defrays great magnitudeto our motive. By reading this newsletter the reciter willget a vivid notion of how Bandhu is working nationallyand internationally.

For the successful publication of the quarterly newsletter,we would like to show appreciation to the writers andeditorial team who have made this turn out. At the sametime, we convey our advance thanks to our readers asthey are the only source of our inspiration for thispublication.

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A uniquecommencement formental healthemotional wellbeingand stressmanagement atBandhu Central OfficeBandhu Social Welfare Society is an exclusiveorganization upholding a 20 years history ofoutstanding social work for the marginalized,socially excluded community in Bangladesh.Bandhu adores and implements all sorts ofcapacity developmental work for its staffs toensure a harmonious and prosperous workingenvironment. Concerning the basic needs andprofessional development Bandhu recentlyhas taken a unique initiation to launch asession on stress management at centraloffice. The session was arranged through aneffective partnership with the department ofClinical Psychology under University of Dhakaand was ornamented through the presence ofsenior management team. The two hourssession was designed to enrich theknowledge of each individual staff on stressmanagement. The session started on 29thJanuary 2017 with a view to continuefurthermore on the last Thursday of eachmonth.

Being a current mental health issue, stressmanagement is important to address as itseffects on wellbeing at different domains.Sustainability of an organization depends onutmost capability of each staff as they all playvital roles through their contribution. Being apart of the organization it is thereforeimportant to manage stress to provide a goodquality of service. The initial session helpedthe staffs to understand better about the basicof stress management. The session beganwith self introduction of each participant alongwith assessment of particular needs. A rangeof initial responses from the participants wereobserved through active participation and theyvoluntarily enquired about the solution for theirstress as related with anger management,blood pressure control and mutualunderstanding.

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Divisional lawyers'panel conference inDhaka under USAID'sHRID projectBandhu Social Welfare Society (Bandhu) withsupport from USAID's HRID project will formLawyers Panel in all administrative divisionsof Bangladesh to provide better legal supportto the marginalized community who identifythemselves minorities based on their genderidentity. In this regard, Lawyers' Fellowshiporientation Program was held at CIRDAPcenter, Dhaka on 18th February, 2017. 23lawyers from different district of Dhakaparticipated in that event. Honorablechairman of Bandhu Mr. Anisul Islam Heropresided the program and Sha Migan ShafiurRahman, PPM, Superintendent of Police;Dhaka was present as chief guest.Representatives from USAID Ms. HabibaAkter, Human Rights and Rule of Law TeamLeader, Democracy and Governance Office,Ms. Salvica Radosevic, Deputy OfficeDirector and Ms. Muntaka Jabeen, werepresent as special guests in the program. Md.Fosiul Ahsan, Director Program, Bandhu,Moshiur Rahman, Asst Manager -Bandhu,Md. Zahid Hossain Legal Consultant, BandhuAdvocate Shihab Shirazi Lawyer, SupremeCourt, Dhaka facilitated the program. After allpresentation participants Lawyers took part ina group work where they come up with somechallenges and recommendations to givelegal support to transgender population.Those are-

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Recommendations:1. Create bridge among beneficiaries and

Panel Lawyers by which they can bebenefitted.

2. Ensure persistency for communityawareness through advocacy,counseling and inclusion of positivetopics about third gender community intextbook.

3. Ensure necessary assistance andtrainings for inquiry officer, doctors andmedia representatives.

4. Ensure quick legal and finance supportfor harassment against third gender.

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Student FellowshipAward GivingCeremony andDocumentaryScreeningBandhu with support from USAID's HRIDproject offered student fellowship to 15students of 3 different universities (Lawdepartment of STAMFORD UNIVERSITY,Media & Mass Communication department ofAIUB and Media studies and JournalismDepartment from ULAB). To this end, Bandhuarranged a Fellowship Award GivingCeremony Documentation ScreeningProgram at ULAB auditorium on25thFebruary, 2017where Prof. Imran ,ViceChancellor of University of Liberal ArtsBangladesh (ULAB) was present as ChiefGuest. Jude William R. Genilo, Professor andHead Department of Media studies andJournalism, ULAB, Kevin Gash, OfficeDirector, Democracy and Governance office,USAID/ Bangladesh USAID/Washington werepresent to enlighten the program as specialguests. Other guests from USAID, Bandhu,faculties from different Universities were alsopresent in the program. Around 150 students

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along with their parents were there to enjoy thedocumentary, dance performance by Hijracommunity & the fellows and other events ofthe program.

Mr. Shale Ahmed, Executive Director, Bandhugave opening remarks, briefing on Bandhu andStudent fellowship. He thanked everyone forparticipating in this event and also to thefellows for their sincere effort. A brief on thefellows and their topics was presented byNabakumar Dutta, Sr. Officer Bandhu and rightafter his presentation the short documentaryhad been screened. Then chief and specialguests handed over the certificates, crest andawarded amount cheques to the students.Some of the students came on to stage toshare their experiences and learning throughthis fellowship work. They expressed theirgratitude to USAID and Bandhu for giving themthe opportunity to gather such kind ofknowledge about transgender community.

After then Mr. Faisal Ahamed, Lecturer, AIUBand Jude William R. Genilo, Professor andHead Department of Media studies andJournalism, ULAB, Kevin Gash, Office Director,Democracy and Governance office, USAIDdelivered their speech. In the closing speechchief guest Prof. Imran , Vice Chancellor ofUniversity of Liberal Arts Bangladesh(ULAB)appreciated the effort of the students.He also thanked Bandhu and USAID for suchunique form of work with students. He said thebridge with the students with transgendercommunity people will definitely eliminate thestigma and this is the way how we can savethem from marginalization.

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Divisional BandhuMedia FellowshipOrientation Program Media is an effective policy influencing tool usedaround the world to raise public awareness onHIV/AIDS, gender violence and many otherissues. Under USAID's HRID project, for the firsttime Bandhu has given media fellowship tosome journalists. These fellows will producereport on their respective media to bring out thechallenges and success stories of transgenderpopulace to sensitize mass population.Journalists from different electronics, printingand online media has applied for the fellowshipand Bandhu formed a jury board including Ms.Shahnaz Munni, Chief News Editor of News 24and Bayezid Ahamed, Special Correspondent ofDeepto television who has selected 18journalists from 6 divisional cities except Dhaka.

On 16 March, 2017 Bandhu arranged anorientation program for the selected journalist atCCDB-Hope Foundation, Savar. In the eventExecutive director of Bandhu Mr. Shale Ahmed,Director Program Md. Fosiul Ahsan, DeputyManager and program coordinator of HRIDproject Md. Moshiur Rahman, Programmanager Umme Farhana Zarif Kanta, Sr. OfficerIkram Hossain, Sr. Officer Nabakumar Duttaand Program officer Dr. Tareq Alam werepresent. Keramot Ullah Biplob Additional ChiefReporter, ATN Bangla Ltd was there as aresource person to brief the journalists abouthow to produce a fruitful and attractive newsreport on SOGI issues out of socialresponsibility. Very innovative and effectivesuggestions came from the resource person to

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produce an effectual report. Those are - Should try to produce innovative

reports which are different fromprevious approach.

Title/ starting of news should be abit dramatic to grow interest of thereader.

Subject of the news should bedifferent for each fellow andBandhu can co-operate with thefellows here.

Every report should be precise butinformative and fellows can takehelp of Bandhu's resource center.

Not only misery but also someencouraging news focusing self-confidence and how sometransgender person are living ahumanly life.

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Legal Support tothe Community(Ain-Alap):Jan.- Mar. 2017 In order to address the violation, stigmaand discrimination of the Gender diversepopulation, Bandhu since 2013 for the

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first time in Bangladesh, commenceddedicated service, 'Ain-Alap' to provide legalassistance to the targeted population. Ain-Alap is continuing its service with an aim toprovide information related to legal issues tothe sexual minority population, identify natureof violation or rights, provide legal counseling,receive complaints from the victims andadvocate them in just manner. Graphicalpresentations on types and nature of violationin different areas during this quarter are asfollows.

Documentation on complaint Bandhu legal unit (Ain Alap) documentedrights violation of the community members inan easy prescribed format with the help ofWatchdog committee members, field officestaffs, CBO members and sometimes by thesuggestions through help line. In this quarterAin-Alap unit has documented total 11complaints where most of the complaintscomes from Sylhet district. A range of serviceshas provided to the person who file thesecomplaints. Such as Legal counseling,documentation, follow up etc.

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Partnership betweenCBOs and Bandhu forSustainability andResource MobilizationBandhu since 2015 initiated working ondeveloping minimum capacity building ofCBOs irrespective to good governess,capacity building and effective sustainabilitythrough resource mobilization. In sequence of

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Meeting on 3rd CycleUPR ReportingHuman Rights forum of Bangladesh (HRFB)organized a consultation meeting on UPRorientation & selecting issues for 3rd cycleUPR reporting which was held at NagorikUddyog 2nd March 2017. This meeting wassupported by Bandhu Social Welfare Societyand Nagorik Uddyog. The focal person of AinAlap activiely participated in this meeting. Theobjectives of this meeting were to familiarizeand update sharing about the UPR processamong the members and also identify the keyissues for 3rd cycle reporting. This meetingwas followed by homework with preparingwrite up for UPR shadow report under specifictheme and a guideline of draft reporting isdeveloped and shared among the respectiveorganizations.

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this motion, in 2016 total 12 CBOscommenced their business plan to work ontheir sustainability and Income GeneratingInitiatives (IGI).

In this regard, a total of 12 Business Plan hasalready been developed in assistance withBandhu and 3 businesses amongst 12 arealready on board and continuing as perguideline.

Business Plan and quarterly updates ofJanuary to March 2017:

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Bandhu CoordinatedHuman Chain on"Drug FreeCommunity: Promisefor Chittagong"On 20th February 2017, Bandhu ofChittagong division has coordinated anawareness event for drug prevention whereother NGOs have also participated. Urgencywas felt by Bandhu field observers to savethird gender population from drug addictionunder ongoing projects: GFTM funding onHIV prevention and UBR funding on HIMproject at Chittagong which are focused onyouth third gender groups. More than 6 million(source: Daily Star, 14 August 2013) peopleare drug addicted and among them 90% areyoung people in Bangladesh.

As from many years Chittagong has used asa strong transit for drug trafficking and illicituse of drugs, NGOs from Chittagongconsidering this alarming and initiated toorganize a human chain following pressbriefing, moderated by Md. Ali AslamHossain, Deputy Director at Narcoticsdepartment, Chittagong. Around 100participants, including 22 journalists from 8local newspaper channels attended the

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event. The event was started by human chainand taking oath for drug prevention, led by Mr.Mashukur Rahman Shikdar, Additional districtcommissioner. During press briefing anumber of distressing issues were discussedbased on different articles published in localnewspapers. According to the articlespublished in 2017; in Chittagong, females aremore involved than males for illicit drugtrafficking as a result female drug users areincreasing day by day. Md. Ali Aslam Hossainanswered few question asked by generalpeople such as government's initiative toreduce drug use prevalence in Chittagongand he mentioned several well-built steps bythe government for drug prevention such aschecking different transit points with Myanmarunder strong supervision. Throughcoordination of the event, Bandhu ofChittagong has marked the importance oftaking drug prevention initiatives for thirdgender people in Chittagong.

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Human Rights BasedApproach Workshopby UNDPBandhu participated in a workshop organizedby UNDP Bangladesh. The Human RightsProgramme of UNDP planned to exploreHuman Rights works/actions and goodpractices of the Civil Society Organization(CSO) working at local and national levels ofBangladesh. This also contributes to enhanceCSO's capacity in applications of HumanRights Based Approach in their actions.

This two-day long event on "Mapping ofHuman Rights Actions/Good Practices andApplications of HRBA in Human Rightsactions of the CSOs" was held at Daily StarBhaban, Dhaka on 29-30thMarch2017.

The objectives of this workshop are asfollows:

Mapping of human rights works/actionsand good practices of the CSOs andCSO coalitions at local and national levelof Bangladesh;

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Enhancing knowledge and capacity ofthe CSOs and CSO coalitions inapplications of Human Rights BasedApproach;

Defining knowledge gaps and futurepriorities for human rightsactions/initiatives of the CSOs and CSOcoalitions at different level ofBangladesh.

Approximately 30 Participants attended in theworkshop from both central and local levelworking on different issue and marginalizedcommunity. During the workshop, goodpractices in human rights actions of the CSOsand CSO coalitions at local and national levelwere discussed and identified the knowledgegaps in Human Rights works/actions of theCSOs/CSO Coalitions. The workshop alsohelps to improve the understanding onHuman Rights Based Approach (HRBA) toDevelopment, roles/responsibilities of DutyBearers and Right Holders and applicationsof Human Rights Based Approach among theparticipants.

Kv‡Ri D`vniY¸‡jvi (good practices) g¨vwcs Kiv;

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Shima Hijra Honoredat InternationalWomen's Day-2017"I may cannot be a butterfly, but I can love youlike a butterfly loves a flower", Shima startedher pitch with this prosody, in celebration ofInternational Women's Day, 2017, arrangedby Nari Jogajog Kendro - ChattogramMohanagor & UTSA When Shima recited thisand announced her 'third gender' identity, thewhole auditorium was echoed with theappreciation from participants.

At the event, she was honored as asuccessful person who overcame thestereotype and norms against her genderidentity and established herself as anexample for the marginalized community. Shecontinued her pitch and said that she is not acurse, but human who dream for life withdignity. She said, hijras can also go side byside with women to overcome challenges anddevelop themselves under helping hand.

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Shima shared her measurable life storyabout unbearable discrimination at herschool and family for her genderbehavior. She dropped out from schoolafter SSC and soon after she declaredher identity as Hijra. However, she wasrejected to live within her family withher new gender identity andexpression; but she did not stop there.Besides belonging to her Hijracommunity, she took training fromBandhu Social Welfare Society anddeveloped herself as a peaceful andresponsible citizen of country. Withoutcompromising her gender dignity, shedemonstrated her eligibility as othergeneral citizen in the country by beinga respective job holder at Bandhu andlives with head high with mainstreamcommunity. During her speech, shethanked Bandhu for having trust uponher; at end note she expressed herdream to mobilize Hijra community incooperation of others.

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A memorable daywith HE Swedish,Norway and DenmarkAmbassadorsBandhu Social Welfare Society (Bandhu) wasinvited by HE Ambassadors to host acommunity dialogue to discuss aboutprovision of current programmes inBangladesh for sexual and gender diversitypopulations including future scope of work.

The venue of the meeting was at Residenceof HE ambassador of Norway. A number of 15community representatives were participatedthe dialogue where HE Ambassador ofSweden, Norway and Denmark were present.A range of issues linked with SRHR andsafety were discussed in the meeting.Participants shared their own adverseexperiences regarding the issues and thestruggle they are facing in their daily life.

Mr. Shale Ahmed informed the ambassadorsabout the programmatic aspect of Bandhuhow it works as platform for Gender Diversitycommunity. Honorable Ambassadorsexpressed their willingness to be with thecommunity on SRHR and security issues andshowed interest to advocate on differentagenda related with them in upcoming years.

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Pay Compensation toTrans People: Anexample of SwedenThe Swedish government on Friday, March24, 2017 to pay a financial compensation toforcibly sterilized trans people in Sweden.This is a great victory for the trans communityin Sweden. "This is the first time a state hasrecognized forced sterilizations of transpeople in legal gender recognition proceduresas the human rights violation and financiallycompensates victims.

The Swedish Minister for Public Health,Healthcare and Sports, Gabriel Wikström,announced that the Swedish government hasagreed to financially compensate forciblysterilized trans people with the amount of 225000 SEK, approximately €23 600, per person.

The compensation will be available foranyone who was forcibly sterilized by theSwedish state from 1972-2013 in order tocomply with the previous requirements in theSwedish legal gender recognition act.

In April 2016, the government first announcedthat it had agreed to pay out compensation,after lengthy pressure from Swedish SOGIrights organization, RFSL. RFSL had workedfor financial compensation since forcedsterilizations were removed in 2013, andcollected testimonials from over 160 forciblysterilized people in order to take the case to court.

The amount is in line with compensationpreviously paid out by the Swedishgovernment to other forcibly sterilized peoplewho were affected by Swedish sterilizationlaws that existed from 1934-1975.

In the same way, the compensation will bemade available through a temporary law thatwill exist for two years from the planned dayof enactment, 1 May 2018.

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TransgenderInclusion increasingin Nepal's CivilService Third Gender Column on Job ApplicationForm Makes a Difference. More than 600transgender people applied for civil servicejobs in Nepal last year, according to agovernment report released. Genderdiverse people's rights activists hail theannouncement as practical progresstoward implementing Nepal's identity-based legal third gender category.

The civil service's hiring numbers fortransgender people - who frequently faceemployment discrimination - remainunknown. Nepal moved toward recognizinga third gender when the Supreme Court, in2007, ruled that individuals should havetheir gender legally recognized based on"self-feeling" and that they should not haveto limit themselves to "female" or "male."

But even with legal progress obtainingappropriate documents, many transgenderNepalis struggled to find jobs. Since 1993,Nepal's Civil Service Act has mandatedthat some jobs be reserved for people fromcertain castes, ethnic minorities, andwomen - but never for transgender people.So it was a welcome inclusive signal thatcivil service application forms includedthree genders in 2015.

Other countries in the region - namelyBangladesh, India, and Pakistan - nowlegally recognize more than two genders insome way. Bangladesh in 2013 recognizea third gender "hijra" category, but aprogram designed to provide governmentjobs to hijras instead resulted in abusiveand humiliating experiences for them.Nepal's example of coupling policy andpragmatic change is an important one.Inclusion is not achieved in court casesand legal change alone, but whenparticipation is encouraged andguaranteed for all.

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The CommonwealthEquality Networkadvocacy strategyplanning meetings inLondon, UK: Activeparticipation of Mr.Shale Ahmed, ExecutiveDirector of BandhuShale Ahmed invited and participated in theadvocacy strategy planning meetings of thecommonwealth Equality Network (TCEN) tookplace between 23-26th January 2017 inLondon, UK of which Bandhu Social WelfareSociety is a member.

The Kaleidoscope Trust, a member of thenetwork based in London, UK, hosted a seriesof meetings in London, at which TCEN partnerscome together and develop a commonadvocacy strategy for the period February 2017through to the next Commonwealth Heads ofGovernment Meeting (CHOGM) in 2018.

During the meetings, all members received up-to-date information on the Commonwealth andabout the Network and contributedmeaningfully to the development of a robustNetwork-wide advocacy strategy and buildrelationships both with other TCEN membersand with UK partners in order to align andenhance strategy delivery.

The final strategy reflected the priorities acrossthe membership, and all members agreed to be

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Research findingdissemination withShare-Net International inAmsterdam, NetherlandsTo contribute to the development of evidence-informed policy and practice and societal-relevant research, Share-Net Internationalaims to share existing knowledge, to generatenew knowledge that addresses prioritizedresearch gaps, and to translate knowledge tovarious audiences. To reach this objective,Share-Net International offers its memberorganizations funding for knowledgegeneration, identification, translation anddissemination initiatives, the so-called "SmallGrants". The Small Grants are intended toinvolve Share-Net International members insmall research projects that:

add to diverse, practical, innovative, short-term and relevant research that is noteasily funded by other donors;

encourage meaningful engagement of,and collaborations between, members.Due to these strong linkages, the projectfindings can easily be translated intoaction;

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allow research to be conducted in low-and middle-income countries otherthan Share-Net International's threefocal countries, which have beenawarded NWO-Wotro funding.

On January 17th 2017, the research findingsof the Small Grants projects that werereleased in 2014 and 2015 were presentedin Amsterdam, Netherlands. Mr. ShaleAhmed, Executive Director ofBandhu presented the studyfunding which was conductedwith the financial support ofShare-Net in partnership withClinical Physiology departmentof Dhaka University. Thesubject of the study was"Exploration of Mental HealthNeeds and Support Systemsamong Sexual and GenderDiversity Population inBangladesh".

A large number of participantsworking in academia, at NGOsand the Dutch ministry ofForeign Affairs participated the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Ine Vanwesenbeeck, whoworks as a Professor Sexual Development,Diversity and Health at University Utrechtand is the former chair of the Share-NetInternational Steering Committee. The aimof the meeting was to discuss the lessonslearned and their implications for policy,practice and follow-up research.

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WRITERS OF THIS EDITION

Shale Ahmed, Masbah Uddin Ahmed, Mohammed Zahid Hossain, Rebecca Sultana, Dr. Tareq Alam, Md. Mamunur Rashid, Fahmida Noor.