harassment
How to take legal action if you're a victim of harassment
While taking legal action will not undo the harrowing experience, it can help to regain some control of the situation and attain a sense of justice.
Grooming: abuse hiding in plain sight
It's a lesser known evil that is wreaking havoc among young people.
11 books to read during Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Trigger Warning: This article mentions sexual and domestic abuse, trauma, and issues of mental health
Flirting and harassment, where is the line?
Flirting is consensual and conscious. Even when it's not too subtle, a flirt won't come across as demanding or like they expect you to respond positively, if at all. Harassment, meanwhile, is obnoxiously persistent.
Anti-Sexual Harassment Cells: ‘No one to listen until we make ourselves heard’
Mehnaz (not her real name), a student of Chittagong University, was sexually harassed by a group of men on her campus a few months ago.
US urges all political parties in Bangladesh to respect rule of law
The US has called on all political parties in Bangladesh to respect the rule of law and refrain from violence, harassment and intimidation.
US mother held for 10,000 anonymous texts to harass daughter
A US mother has been arrested after Michigan authorities say she anonymously cyberbullied her teenage daughter and her boyfriend for more than a year, reports say.
Nurture students, don’t torture them
We are shocked and saddened by the death of an eighth grader in Narsingdi, who died by suicide after her teacher harassed her for wearing trousers with her school uniform.
The Narsingdi incident was a hate crime against a woman, plain and simple
How is it that we live in a society where a woman must endure humiliating attacks from another woman and her male cohorts in a public place for the clothes she chooses to wear?
Don’t harass UAE-bound workers with tourist visas at Dhaka airport: Parliamentary body
A parliamentary body today asked all authorities concerned not to harass UAE-bound migrant workers having tourist visas at the Dhaka airport.
Sub-Registrars' Offices: Service seekers face harassment
Service seekers at a mass hearing organised by the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday said they faced nothing short of harassment at sub-registrar offices.
ASK concerned over ‘harassment of family by law enforcers’
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, expresses deep concern over the law enforcement agencies’ alleged harassment and pressure on Sohagi Jahan Tonu’s family to give statements they had prescribed.
Filing false cases is ‘evil culture’: Law minister
Law Minister Anisul Huq terms the trend of filing false cases to cause harassment as “evil culture”.
Editors for withdrawal of all cases
The Editor's Council has condemned and protested the filing of cases one after another against The Daily Star editor and the Council's general secretary, Mahfuz Anam.
Harassment of Star editor must stop
Nine eminent citizens have expressed grave concern over the filing of more than 50 cases and issuance of summons against The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam.
Don't harass people on suspicion
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia yesterday asked officers not to “unnecessarily harass people on suspicion” or “by showing them arrested in cases”.
Punish errant policemen
A parliamentary body yesterday asked the government to ensure exemplary punishment for police personnel who tarnished the image of the police department.
Pakistan high commission staff held, freed later
Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka yesterday alleged a team of the Detective Branch of police threatened to kill one of its employees if he failed to provide them with a huge amount of money.
Facebook to respond in 48 hrs: Tarana
Facebook authorities will response to any complaint by the Bangladesh government within 48 hours, says State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim.