Speakers at a seminar Thursday urged the media to disseminate information about reproductive health of adolescents so that they can protect themselves from various odds during the critical transitional period in life, reports UNB. They said the adolescent, which counted around 25 per cent of the country’s population, had a trend of experimenting new things [...]

ALTHOUGH human beings today are supposed to enjoy greater physical security compared to ages gone by, the ground realities tell a different story. Greater recognition of human rights and enforcement of the same, granting of voting rights to previously disenfranchised people, legislation to end slavery etc., have internationally created an environment that discourages such oppression [...]

Home Affairs Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin Tuesday urged all to join the fight against human smuggling, as some 50 Bangladeshi girls are lured out to India everyday and coerced into prostitution, reports UNB. “Organised criminals earn billions of dollars by trading human beings like merchandise, and it’s the high time that we bring [...]

Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has opened a Women Entrepreneurs’ Cell under its SME Banking division on its Dhanmondi branch premises to support growing women entrepreneurs’ business needs. EBL Deputy Managing Director (DMD) and Head of SME Banking Muklesur Rahman inaugurated the cell through a simple ceremony Sunday. He handed over the first women entrepreneur business [...]

Post-budget press confce on gender issue told Shunning the focus on merely addressing the current needs, the government should look to long-term goals emphasising gender issues while presenting a budget, speakers at a press conference yesterday said. They said the prioritisation process should aim at achieving the broader goals of women-development issues instead of the [...]

Post-budget press confce on gender issue told: Shunning the focus on merely addressing the current needs, the government should look to long-term goals emphasising gender issues while presenting a budget, speakers at a press conference yesterday said. They said the prioritisation process should aim at achieving the broader goals of women-development issues instead of the [...]

Hundreds of sex workers have taken to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to celebrate a ruling that legalised prostitution.   But the ruling by a lower court has now been suspended by the Bangladesh Supreme Court, which is also considering whether it will hear an appeal by the government against the ruling. The [...]

While Bangladesh has achieved impressive gains in women’s status and gender equality, access to reproductive health services, labour markets, physical security and role in decision-making need urgent attention. A World Bank report ‘Whispers to Voices: Gender and Social Transformation in Bangladesh’ documented changes in norms, attitudes and practices related to gender equality based on national [...]

ICDDR,B focuses on the lives of women in Bangladesh and around the world for a simple reason: gender equality and the wellbeing of families go hand in hand. When women are empowered to live full and productive lives, their families prosper. Working to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 – promoting gender equality and empowering women [...]

The Supreme Court Monday asked the Indian government to examine the feasibility of having a stringent penal law akin to the one in Bangladesh to deal with cases of women and young girls being attacked with acid. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan also asked the government to examine the feasibility of regulating the [...]

The world- wide trend towards consumerism has created an atmosphere in which advertisements habitually portray women primarily as consumers and target girls and women of all ages inappropriately. The aim of advertisements is to influence someone to buy a thing. A number of surveys indicate that women are treated as commodities in advertising. Women are [...]

The Asian University for Women (AUW) is an emerging institution with an ambitious mission. Located in Chittagong, Bangladesh, AUW is the first of its kind: a regional institution of the highest quality, dedicated to the intellectual development of women. The University is international in its vision but rooted in the aspirations of people across Asia.  [...]