VOICE is a Bangladesh-based activist, rights based research and advocacy organization working around the issues of corporate globalization.
It critically campaigns on neo-liberal "economic hegemony", the role of international financial institutions (IFIs), WTO, TNCs and privatization.
It works around aid conditions, food sovereignty, media, communication rights and information and communication technologies, governance and human rights, policy research and advocacy, both at local and national levels in Bangladesh to raise awareness and shape the public discourse against economic, social and cultural hegemony and injustice including "global capitalism and imperialism."
Periodic famine stems from the neglect and lack of commitment on the part of successive governments of Bangladesh, who have consistently denied the very existence of the phenomenon, according to Voice.
Ahmed Swapan Mahmud is executive director of Voice, based at the Pisciculture Housing Society in the Shyamoli locality of Dhaka.