Around 2,500 people, mostly landless and Indigenous women from around Bangladesh, attended a mass gathering in Dinajpur and raised their voices strongly against the “Zero Landless” declaration of the government. The event was organized by the Community Development Association (CDA) and ALRD with the support of the Stand for Her Land (S4HL) Campaign.

S4HL Bangladesh is actively opposing the government’s “Zero Landless” declarations, which inaccurately claim that certain areas have no landless people and subsequently halt the distribution of khas (public) land.

This mass gathering is one of several actions taken by the S4HL Bangladesh coalition. To learn more about their advocacy efforts against the “Zero Landless” declarations, read this brief.