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January 07, 2010
Protest Note-Bangladesh
Tuesday, 5, January, 2010
“Stop TV advertisement of Daily Kaler kanta that presents Visually Impaired people in an undignified presentation.”
A current advertisement produced by the Daily Kaler kanta which is daily newspaper uses the image of six visually impaired people touching an elephant in a lame attempt to convey bad journalism. What the add does convey is a shameful violation of human dignity.
The repeated viewing of this advertisement does great harm to visually impaired people by conveying the myth that visually impaired people are not capable of gathering all information nor of understanding the large issues of the day. These negative perceptions must stop now!
Visually Impaired people in Bangladesh face great barriers to getting jobs and economic independence without advertisements like the one produced by the daily paper. Visually Impaired people are far from the image portrayed by the advertisement, we are high level thinkers and planners. We are capable of running large organizations, arguing in courts of law and more than capable of leading governments.
The use of an ancient message about blindness to sell news papers is both shameful and incorrect whereas the media should fight for the rights of the disable persons. Today visually impaired people surf the internet, design software, walk independently have families and contribute to society.
We, the visually impaired of Chittagong demand that the add be removed from distribution or face future civil action
From,
Some Leaders with Visually Challenged in Chittagong , who are:
Mr. Vashkar Bhattacharjee, Rashed Chowdhury, Ahsan Ulla Sarkar, Liton Sree Nath, Ms. Hena Nurjahan, Monora Begum.
Posted by jicafriends at January 7, 2010 10:25 AM