Today on 8 March 2018 at 10 am in front of National Press Club, organized by Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML, a rally and procession took place in observance of International Woman’s Day.
Presided over by CPBML Polit Bureau Member Comrade Mukhlesuddin Shahin the rally was addressed by CPBML (...)
Programs were held 21 February in observance of International Mother Language Day and 8 March in observance .
International Mother Language Day
Programs were held 21 February in observance of International Mother Language Day. It took place in Dhaka at national level and in Barisal at (...)
Indigenous women and girls in Bangladesh are increasingly being raped in land-related conflicts, especially in militarized areas. An alarming trend worth reflecting upon on the International Women’s Day 2018.
The latest example of brutal sexual violence against indigenous women and girls in (...)
Situation of Women in Bangladesh: Uneven progress and Persistent Inequalities
Bangladesh is currently categorized as a lower-middle income (LMIC) country which has been experiencing a steady rate of economic growth in the last two decades. A country with Muslim-majority with a parliamentary (...)
A coalition of NGOs working on child rights hold a protest rally against the special provision in the latest child marriage act with the slogan ‘No clause with 18.’
WHEN I was an eighth grader in school, a new teacher, someone who was on training in our school, once told us in the class, ‘You (...)
Climate change is driving Bangladeshi women out of the countryside and into exploitative garment factories.
Melted ice caps, habitat loss, encroaching seas, violent storms, crop failure, hunger, death — the list of global warming’s ill effects is long. Yet for some, climate change has been a (...)
Moving away from core issues of women’s rights and particularly violence against women is going to have a negative impact on the women’s movement. Although women’s rights should incorporate all national issues but national issues must not set aside women’s question at all. The new generation (...)
Bangladesh: The Muslim Right opposes government’s secular decisions. Selected media reports and editorial comments. Police disperse Bangladesh protests against women’s rights
Thursday 7 April 2011
BBC News, 4 April 2011
Police in Bangladesh broke up angry protesters blocking a main highway in (...)
Women’s rights activists knew what was coming, had already protested the formation of review body
Staff Correspondent
The formation of a high-powered committee to review the Women Development Policy 2008 by keeping the women and children affairs ministry in the dark has surprised many (...)
Mullah driven review body finds equal rights for women “very objectionable”. Recommends deletion of 6 provisions, change in 15 in National Women Development Policy.
Star Report
The ulema committee formed to review the National Women Development Policy has strongly opposed equal rights to (...)
Staff Correspondent
A number of socio-cultural organisations, political parties and non-government organisations (NGO) have demanded cancellation of the committee formed to review the Women Development Policy 2008 and immediate implementation of the policy.
Samajik Protirodh Committee at (...)
Staff Correspondent
The surrounding areas of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque turned into a battlefield yesterday when members of an Islamic organisation clashed with police leaving over 50 injured including 10 policemen and 15 pedestrians.
Witnesses said the hour-long clash started around (...)
WHY so much noise about a policy which does no more than reaffirm commitments of earlier documents? The protests by a few religious clerics surrounding the declaration of the policy by the chief advisor give rise to suspicions of political machinations. The responses of some members of (...)
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh’s military-backed government has backed down from a policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override Islamic law.
The country’s law minister Hasan Arif said the government “does not have any plan to (...)
Our failure as a nation to ensure equal rights for women as for men in all spheres and at all levels is, we believe, a cause for great disappointment and collective shame. While there is no doubt that we have taken some measures towards gender equity since our national independence, there (...)
PROTECT TASLIMA NASRIN
A petition is being circulated urging the Indian government to protect Taslima Nasrin, an exiled Bangladeshi author, after an Indian Muslim groupoffered a 500,000 Rupee (US$11,800) bounty for her beheading.
The president of the All India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza (...)
Chandrima S. Bhattacharya meets the girl who was publicly stripped, beaten and photographed in a Bengal village for being “like a boy”.
The Telegraph February 15, 2007
Boro Chupria is a small village about 25 km from Krishnagar. It is a pretty village, with its huts of mud, brick and darma, (...)
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen’s extension of her permission to stay on in India is about to expire. She likens her position to standing at a bus stop all her life.
“Well-behaved women rarely make history,” says a sticker pasted on Taslima Nasreen’s refrigerator door. But then, (...)
Staff Correspondent
Women leaders and right activists have blasted and condemned the reported agreement signed by Awami League with Khelafat Majlish on legalising fatwa if voted to power.
They said such a move is a suicidal one and a big assault on the ongoing movement against (...)
Bangladesh is often portrayed in the Western media as a place where women are victimised and subordinated by Islam. Fundamentalist outrage against writer Tasleema Nasreen has reinforced this image. But Bangladesh also has a very vibrant and strong women’s movement. Green Left Weekly’s (...)
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