'Humans of ICPD: Faces of Bangladesh'
A photography exhibition titled 'Humans of ICPD: Faces of Bangladesh' by photographer Naymuzzaman Prince began at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) on Saturday, reports UNB.
Planning Minister MA Mannan attended the opening ceremony as the chief guest while UNFPA Bangladesh representative Asa Torkelsson as a special guest. Nairobi Summit 2019 marks 25 years of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) since its first organization in 1994 in Cairo. As a developing country, Bangladesh has achieved a lot of success in different areas, especially on human rights, population, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and sustainable development.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is playing an important role in achieving those improvements. They are working closely together with different stakeholders where the rights of women and girls are key to development. This photo exhibition puts a human face to the ICPD agenda in Bangladesh, which is expected to generate momentum ahead of the Nairobi Summit to accelerate the progress of the ICPD agenda.
Through powerful portraits and vignettes of people from Bangladesh, the exhibition is not only informing key stakeholders about the ICPD Program of Action's principles but also highlighting why ICPD is so important if Bangladesh is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Naymuzzaman Khan Prince is a social photographer and visual storyteller, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
