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.
"I am a good teacher, as I do not scold or punish my students. If they do not understand something then I explain it to them,” declared a four-year-old who was acting out the role of a “teacher”; the “students” were his parents.
For the last few days, I have been thinking of a group of adolescent girls (studying in high school) whom I met in a char of Lalmonirhat district several years ago.
This was what a renowned paediatrician said to the parent of a four year old child. The comment illustrates the level of frustration and helplessness about the air pollution of Dhaka.
In the last one and a half years, 24 girls below three years were raped. It was also reported that most of the perpetrators were known to the children.
Recently violence against children has been highlighted by print and electronic media of Bangladesh. Media usually report extreme cases of violence (abductions, killings, rapes). According to Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), 1,085 children
You give dowry and I receive it, why are you bringing government into this?”said a woman in a village in Rangpur district during a discussion on women's status.
There is a need to achieve a balance between utilisation of positive aspects of the cyber world -- ensuring the rights of children to privacy, information and expression, association -- and protecting them from abuse.
AROUND 80 percent of the world's men and boys will become fathers during their lifetime, and virtually all men have at least some
Most of us are still unaware that parenting can be learnt and think that it comes naturally.
Recently a friend of mine called to inform that his nephew (studying in class three in an English medium school in Dhaka) has been
