On February 20, 2018 BIGD organized a seminar on Street Vendors’ Struggles over the Right to the City in Dhaka by Ms. Lutfun Nahar Lota, Asst Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka at BIGD conference room. Ms. Lota shared her PhD research work titled 'From Protection to Repression: Street Vendors’ Struggles over the Right to the City in Dhaka'. She told that, much of the discussion surrounding the concept the ‘right to the city’ has been empirically grounded in the Global North, with a particular focus on neoliberalism, built-environment, and its impact on residents of cities. She added that her paper shifts the discussion to the Global South, emphasising street vendors’ rights to access to public space for earning incomes in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The Mayors of Dhaka have recently initiated massive eviction drives against street traders to clean the sidewalks and other public spaces to solve traffic congestion and to build a ‘clean and green’ Dhaka city. Within this context, drawing on Lefebvre’s theorisation of space and using the right to the city (RTC) framework, her paper explores the urban poor’s right to appropriate space in the context of Dhaka. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with 136 participants and using Sattola slum as a case, Ms. Lota explains the power relations and negotiations that the urban poor of Dhaka utilise to access public space both within and beyond the slum for earning a livelihood. Researchers from BIGD attended the seminar.