Marium was only 10 years old when she faced the horrors of sexual violence in 2018..
The one-stop crisis centres are supposed to provide comprehensive support to women and children victims of violence, offering healthcare, police assistance, legal aid and other services.
The family of Md Shahjahan, a 24-year-old hawker from Dhaka’s New Market area who was killed in the capital the same day Abu Sayed died in Rangpur, is demanding swift justice and appropriate compensation for his death.
For the first time in Bangladesh’s history, five female lawyers have been appointed as justices in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court.
For the first time in Bangladesh's history, five female lawyers have been appointed as justices in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court.
When protests against the quota system in government jobs erupted in Bangladesh during June and July, students believed they were standing up against a system they saw as discriminatory.
On July 18, Dhanmondi-27 had become one of the flashpoints when protesters took to the streets to enforce the “complete shutdown” called by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Aparajita Sangita, a young filmmaker and advocate for women’s rights, is still trying to overcome the shock of a traumatic encounter at the Panthapath signal in Dhaka last week.
Whenever there is an incident of rape, most people tend to say that it was the girl or woman’s fault, and question her character, social class, outfit, sexual experience, and lifestyle.
Most days of the week, Jagannath University student Ayesha Nijhum is seen sitting in an open field near her house in Gazipur’s Kapasia. The second-year student of management attends online classes on her cellphone for about two hours and prefers the field over her house due to the better signal reception in the open area.
It was not the family reunion that she had hoped for.
“Do you want to earn Tk 20,000 per month working from home for only two hours a day?”
Until Sunday night, the sidewalks in front of the Jatiya Press Club were teeming with protesters pressing their demands for various causes, but since yesterday morning the area has been deserted.
The news on rape of a 14-year-old intellectually impaired girl at a disaster shelter, in Pachgachhi union of Kurigram Sadar upazila in 2018, did not make it to the headlines of major newspapers or outlets, but it offers a glimpse of the vulnerabilities women and girls face during natural disasters.
Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.
“Apa, are you sure you will not write my name in your report? If anyone could understand that I am [HIV] positive, I will not find clients anymore and will die of hunger,” said 38-Year-old Ruma (not her real name), an HIV positive sex-worker while speaking to this newspaper yesterday.
While the government has taken steps to ensure victims of gender-based violence such as rape can go to local-level bodies for remedy, these initiatives largely fall flat because of little action and follow-up.
Since the Tazreen Fashions factory fire on November 24, 2012, former senior sewing machine operator Shilpi Akter has left no stone unturned to support herself and her family of five, even though she had lost her ability for labour-intensive work.
