Growing Citizenship from the Grassroots: Nijera Kori and Social Mobilization in Bangladesh

Naila Kabeer
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Naila Kabeer: * Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University,

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2003, vol. 29, issue 3-4, 1-20

Abstract: The constitution of Bangladesh is committed to uphold certain universal human rights, including the right to life and personal liberty, privacy, equality and non-discrimination, and freedom of movement, religion, expression, thought and conscience, and property. It also contains fundamental principles of state policy that address the need for the state to ensure the availability of food, shelter, employment, health and education for all its citizens. Though non-justiciable, the constitution provides that these prin- ciples should be fundamental to the governance of Bangladesh, applied in its laws, and a guide to constitutional and legal interpretation

Keywords: Development studies; Collective action; Citizenship; Government corruption; Solidarity; Nongovernmental organizations; Social change; Womens rights; Constituents; Social protests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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