Working with the support of Microsoft, Trestle Group Foundation’s Empowering Women IT Entrepreneurs Partnership Program supports Luna Shamsuddoha of Dohatec New Media — a woman-led software company in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The Baftas are having a bit of an Oscar moment. Thanks to the will they/won’t they aspect of this year’s Academy Awards, all eyes are on the British equivalent, which take place tomorrow night. The amount of preparation that goes into these award ceremonies is staggering – and Britishness, it seems, is no guarantee of [...]

Does being a consumer these days really have to be so complicated? Even fake tanning’s becoming an issue, although not so much of an ethics one, as an Essex one. Actually, that joke doesn’t really work any more now that the Essex aesthetic has gone national. But that’s the point. Fake tans started, as fashions [...]

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Investment in women and girls is women’s empowerment Barrister Harun ur Rashid Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain Women are grossly discriminated against men in male-dominated society. They are discriminated in every sphere of public and private life by men. In developed countries, women also suffer from unequal wage and there is a “glass-ceiling “in corporate bodies [...]

An executive committee of Women Scientists’ Association of Bangladesh (WSAB) was formed for two years with Prof Shahida Rafique, Prof Nazira Quraishi Kamal and Prof Hasin Azhari Anupama as its president, vice-president and general secretary respectively, said a press release. The committee was formed at the annual general meeting (AGM) and seminar on “Human development [...]

HUMAN trafficking has spread slavery to every continent and most countries. It goes on a par with the drugs and illegal arms trade ad is one of the most profitable forms of illegal activity. Bangladesh is a source as well as transit for men, women and children trafficked for forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. [...]

HUMAN trafficking has spread slavery to every continent and most countries. It goes on a par with the drugs and illegal arms trade ad is one of the most profitable forms of illegal activity. Bangladesh is a source as well as transit for men, women and children trafficked for forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. [...]

More than 90 per cent of working women both in rural and urban areas have been experiencing various kinds of gender violence, including verbal, physical, mental and sexual, at their workplaces, reports BSS. This was revealed by a study styled ‘Gender Based Violence at the Workplace : Causes and Consequences’ saying 92.3 per cent working [...]

  The constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh ensures equal rights for all citizens, irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Thus women enjoy the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression, association and assembly which form the basis of political activity in a civil society. But in practice women [...]

Bangladesh Ansar regained the title of the EXIM Bank 19th National Women’s Handball Competition after six years outplaying hosts Dhaka DSA by 20-09 goals in the final at the Mirpur Shaheed Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. This was also the 13th title for the services side, which enjoyed a 15-04 first [...]