Child marriage in Bangladesh hinders girls' education and lifelong opportunities.
In Bangladesh, 361 students, a significant percentage of whom were elementary students, succumbed to suicide between January and August in 2023.
It is our responsibility to make society safe for girls by strengthening child protection system at the community and national levels.
Listening to others does not mean agreeing with them, but acknowledging that different opinions exist and seeking to understand them is crucial.
Children are born with immense potential. Isn’t it a tremendous waste of human capacity to confine them to limited roles?
At the registration desk of a private hospital in Dhaka, an employee loudly asked for personal information.
Many have witnessed physical and emotional abuse taking place in the relationship between their parents.
More than 1.3 billion children aged between one and 14 years are subjected to corporal punishment at home each year.
In the first eight months of 2021, at least 79 girls with disabilities have been subjected to rape in the country, according to a recent report by the National Girl Child Advocacy Forum Bangladesh.
Fairooz Faizah Beether, a fourth-year student of Khulna University, recently received the 2021 Goalkeepers Global Goals Changemaker Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
News of child marriage is unfortunately quite common in Bangladesh. But the report about 50 young girls from the same school being married off during the pandemic is something that hits you especially hard.
Salim (not his real name) is 42 years old and works in a private company in Dhaka. Recently, he needed to go to an office to have a meeting, and felt intense anxiety. This happens to him whenever he has to meet any man alone.
Social media is flooded with children’s photos, quotes and videos that are being posted by their parents.
During the Covid-19 lockdowns, men have been performing more care work than any other time in recent history.
Shishurai Shobis a voluntary initiative, which aims to contribute to creating a child sensitive society by developing awareness and capacity of all concerned adults across all socio-economic groups.
Recently, many parents in Bangladesh are expressing concerns about the behavioural changes of their children and feeling worried about the impacts of Covid-19 related restrictions on their health and wellbeing.
Accor-ding to a report published in March 2021 by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), 30 percent of children have experienced various forms of online harassment during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr Firdausi Qadri of Icddr,b, Dr Salma Sultana of Model Livestock Advance-ment Foundation and Prof Samia Subrina of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)—three Bangladeshi women scientists have recently made us proud.
