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Women routinely face sexual assault and exploitation in factories, many of which supply western brands. A grassroots movement is helping victims to seek justice
Dolly Akhtar was only 16 when she started work in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, stitching clothing destined for shop floors (...)
Shamsun Nahar Khan Doli was born in 10 April 1964 in Dashmina sub-district in Patuakhali District. She studied in homoeopathic medicine after completion of secondary level education. Her father Abdus Satter Khan was a famous peasant leader who died in 1996 due to cardiac attack. Doli grew up (...)
On 13 April 2019, Saturday, at 10 am in front of Dhaka National Press Club, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, Bangladesh Bhasman Nari Shramik Union, Bangladesh Bhumihin Samity, Bangladesh Adivasi Samity, jointly staged rally and human chain in protest of killing and rape (...)
A group of 18 civil society networks yesterday demanded that the government must invest part of the tax money to establish women’s rights.
The demand came at a human chain organized in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
Among others, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury of EquityBD, Rehana Akter of (...)
A group of 18 civil society networks yesterday demanded that the government must invest part of the tax money to establish women’s rights.
The demand came at a human chain organized in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
Among others, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury of EquityBD, Rehana Akter of (...)
Following the “Global days of Action on Tax Justice and Women Rights” Rights Groups demanded to ensure women rights in country.
Dhaka, 19 March 2019. Today a group of 18 Rights Based Civil Society Networks have demanded the tax money to invest for establishing women’s rights through a human chain (...)
On 11 October 2018 at 3 pm in the office of the organizations in Dhaka Bangladesh Krishok Federation, Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, Bangladesh Adivasi Samity and Bangladesh Bhumiheen Samity and Labour Resource Center jointly organized a discussion meeting in observance of 15 October which is (...)
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and burned at her school, dying 10 days later of her injuries.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who died 10 days after the attack, whose claims of harassment were initially ignored by police and school authorities. Photograph: Handout
A teenage Bangladeshi girl (...)
Today on 8 March 2018 at 10 am in front of National Press Club, organized by Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML, a rally and procession took place in observance of International Woman’s Day.
Presided over by CPBML Polit Bureau Member Comrade Mukhlesuddin Shahin the rally was addressed by CPBML (...)
Programs were held 21 February in observance of International Mother Language Day and 8 March in observance .
International Mother Language Day
Programs were held 21 February in observance of International Mother Language Day. It took place in Dhaka at national level and in Barisal at (...)
Indigenous women and girls in Bangladesh are increasingly being raped in land-related conflicts, especially in militarized areas. An alarming trend worth reflecting upon on the International Women’s Day 2018.
The latest example of brutal sexual violence against indigenous women and girls in (...)
Situation of Women in Bangladesh: Uneven progress and Persistent Inequalities
Bangladesh is currently categorized as a lower-middle income (LMIC) country which has been experiencing a steady rate of economic growth in the last two decades. A country with Muslim-majority with a parliamentary (...)
A coalition of NGOs working on child rights hold a protest rally against the special provision in the latest child marriage act with the slogan ‘No clause with 18.’
WHEN I was an eighth grader in school, a new teacher, someone who was on training in our school, once told us in the class, ‘You (...)
Climate change is driving Bangladeshi women out of the countryside and into exploitative garment factories.
Melted ice caps, habitat loss, encroaching seas, violent storms, crop failure, hunger, death — the list of global warming’s ill effects is long. Yet for some, climate change has been a (...)
Moving away from core issues of women’s rights and particularly violence against women is going to have a negative impact on the women’s movement. Although women’s rights should incorporate all national issues but national issues must not set aside women’s question at all. The new generation (...)
Bangladesh: The Muslim Right opposes government’s secular decisions. Selected media reports and editorial comments. Police disperse Bangladesh protests against women’s rights
Thursday 7 April 2011
BBC News, 4 April 2011
Police in Bangladesh broke up angry protesters blocking a main highway in (...)
Women’s rights activists knew what was coming, had already protested the formation of review body
Staff Correspondent
The formation of a high-powered committee to review the Women Development Policy 2008 by keeping the women and children affairs ministry in the dark has surprised many (...)
Mullah driven review body finds equal rights for women “very objectionable”. Recommends deletion of 6 provisions, change in 15 in National Women Development Policy.
Star Report
The ulema committee formed to review the National Women Development Policy has strongly opposed equal rights to (...)
Staff Correspondent
A number of socio-cultural organisations, political parties and non-government organisations (NGO) have demanded cancellation of the committee formed to review the Women Development Policy 2008 and immediate implementation of the policy.
Samajik Protirodh Committee at (...)
Staff Correspondent
The surrounding areas of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque turned into a battlefield yesterday when members of an Islamic organisation clashed with police leaving over 50 injured including 10 policemen and 15 pedestrians.
Witnesses said the hour-long clash started around (...)
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