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 – will reap the double dividend of bettering the lives of both women and their communities. It will also contribute to achieving all the other goals, from reducing poverty and hunger to saving children’s lives, improving maternal health, ensuring universal education, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing new and innovative partnerships for development.
International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated on March 8, is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is Ending Impunity for Violence against Women. IWD 2007 provides an opportunity to focus our collective attention on violence against women and girls in Bangladeshi society and to consider concrete measures to end this social problem. Now more than ever, we must take action to end violence so that women and girls are able to participate fully in society. This year, as we affirm our commitment to ending violence against women, let us also celebrate the women of Bangladesh, and their vital role in developing this country.
Women and Violence in Bangladesh
Physical violence by husbands: Magnitude, disclosure and help-seeking behaviour of women in Bangladesh.Sexual violence within marriage in Bangladesh: Magnitude and associated factors.Factors associated with physical violence against pregnant women in Bangladesh.Dowry and Spousal Physical Violence against Women in Bangladesh: Is payment and/or patriarchy the main issue?Communication and negotiation around first conception and contraceptive use in rural Bangladesh.Factors Associated with Spousal Physical Violence Against Women in Bangladesh.Spousal violence and suicidal ideation among women in Bangladesh.
