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Monday, March 8th, 2010 On the eve of 100th International Women's Day celebration, a group of men yesterday vowed to fight against acid violence, which makes many women's lives a misery.“As a man, I am ashamed that in over 95 percent cases it is a man who throws acid at women. It really hurts me. I swear to work so that no woman is burnt by acid anymore,” said singer Shuvro Dev at the rally of men against acid violence at Rabindra Sarobar in the city's Dhanmondi area.Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) and the Bangla daily Prothom Alo jointly organised the event.International Women's Day ...
(read more) Friday, August 21st, 2009 Child pornography is on the rise in Bangladesh as 80 percent of the under eighteen-year-old girls involved in sex trade are forced to do so due to poverty, deception, trapping and torturing, said a seminar yesterday in the capital.Manusher Jonno Foundation organised the seminar to share their studies titled "Child in sex trade, a situation analysis" and "Child pornography, an exploratory study at Dhaka" at Jatiya Press Club.The findings revealed a major portion of both school going and out-of-school children are exposed to porno pictures in the form of poster and picture card and porn CDs.They are getting involved ...
(read more) Monday, May 18th, 2009 The High Court yesterday declared illegal Jahangirnagar University authorities' decisions of exonerating drama and dramatics faculty member Sanowar Hossain Sunny from sexual harassment charges and suspending six students on charge of assaulting him.The HC bench of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui also directed the JU authorities to hold a fresh enquiry into the incident and take action against the alleged persons. The bench insists that neutral persons conduct the fresh enquiry in line with the HC's recent guidelines on sexual harassment.The same bench on May 14 upon a writ directed the authorities concerned to form a ...
(read more) Friday, May 15th, 2009 The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a set of guidelines defining sexual misdemeanours to prevent any kind of physical, mental or sexual harassment of women, girls and children at their workplaces, educational institutions and other public places including roads across the country.The HC directed the government to make a law on the basis of the guidelines, and ruled that the guidelines will be treated as a law until the law is made.An HC bench comprised of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui came up with the guidelines, directive and ruling in its verdict upon a writ petition ...
(read more) Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Around 3,000 participants from 125 countries Tuesday joined the World Congress on fight against sexual exploitation of Children (WCIII) in Rio de Janeiro of Brazil to share lessons and amplify the efforts in the fight against sexual exploitation of children across the globe.Over 137 different government delegations from all regions of the world and 300 children and adolescents are participating in the WCIII that started on the evening of November 25 with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurating the event. This is the first time the event is taking place in a developing country.The three-day WCIII ...
(read more) Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Bangladesh Police introduced a special intelligence branch comprised of only women.Special Women Police Contingent (SWPC) deals with criminal activities by women, which have been on the rise.The police department introduced the new branch recently with a view to curbing sex trade, drug peddling, and trafficking of women and children.According to police sources, women are being used for trafficking other women and children, drug peddling, smuggling, and for swindling people, as crime lords feel safer to employ women for those jobs since traditionally they raise less suspicion.Sources said to deal with women criminals Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) already set up ...
(read more) Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Lack of awareness about child rights and existing laws both lead to the violation of rights of children in conflict with the law, starting from their arrest and lasting through their custody and trial.Children and juveniles are not given rights that ought to be guaranteed to them according to the Children Act 1974, an act that experts say remains back dated compared to the Convention on Rights of the Child, which Bangladesh ratified in 1990.A glaring example of how police and magistrates lack knowledge about child rights was the arrest of an eight-year-old child by Dakkhinkhan police on April ...
(read more) Friday, April 18th, 2008 The ulema committee formed to review the National Women Development Policy has strongly opposed equal rights to women, recommending deletion of six sections of the policy and amending 15 others as they said these sections "clash" with the provisions of the Quran and Sunnah.There are several sections in the policy which are "very objectionable", said Mufti Mohammad Nuruddin, acting khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque who headed the review committee."A woman cannot enjoy rights equal to a man's because a woman is not equal to a man by birth. Can there be two prime ministers--one male and one female--in a ...
(read more) Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 A 16-year-old girl, raped and burned by a man whom she used to regard as her grandfather, died last night in the capital following her two-month-long struggle with the injuries.Critically injured Rozina, from Mohimaganj of Gaibandha, was transferred from Gaibandha Sadar Hospital and admitted to Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on January 27 with 30 percent of her lower body severely burned.She was transferred to the DMCH as her condition deteriorated despite receiving treatment at the Gaibandha Sadar Hospital for over one month.Her assailant, Majid Talukdar, aged around 45 or 50, ...
(read more) Sunday, April 29th, 2007 Quality should be as important in improving education as literacy rates, said speakers at a policy roundtable yesterday. They also stressed the importance of increasing enrolment of minorities and disabled children in an effort to achieve universal education in Bangladesh by 2015.The speakers also opened up discussion on the much disputed figures of literacy rate, saying there is a need for a common definition of literacy for greater consistency and coordination among different stakeholders in education development.Education activists, former and current bureaucrats, NGO workers and academics participated in the roundtable styled "Education as a human right: Where are we?" jointly ...
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