The number of working and floating women is increasing in the city but none of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) public toilets is suitable for them. In absence of adequate number of public toilets in the city, men can respond to the call of nature in open spaces but women cannot take such liberty. According [...]

A training camp for the women’s kabaddi team began at the Dhanmondi Women’s Sports Complex Gymnasium yesterday, ahead of the upcoming 3rd Asian Women’s Kabaddi Championship in India. The monthlong camp will host fifteen players from different district sports associations. National Sports Council director (sports) Haiyul Qayyum inaugurated the training camp as chief guest. Bangladesh [...]

A daylong orientation workshop on ‘Women Empowerment’ was held at the training room of Tushbhander Federation Office of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) in Kaliganj Upazila of Lalmonirhat. Under the assistances of Bangladesh NGO Foundation, Tushbhander Federation Office of RDRS organised the workshop recently that stressed the need of taking joint efforts to encourage involvement of [...]

“This exhibition from Bangladesh showcases works by 10 contemporary women artists. Most of them have earned prominence in the artistic arena of Bangladesh in the past few decades. Some are of recent reputations. Some have careers and oeuvres that have gone through considerable changes during the course of long efforts and experimentation. Women artists have [...]

Adolescent and youth of Bangladesh can play a vital role in removing the barriers towards establishment of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights. Dr Halida Hanum Akhter, Director General of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), said this at the concluding session of its workshop. The concluding session of the workshop on ‘awareness building in [...]

A lot has been said in the seminars held at different cozy auditoriums in the capital, by different organizations including same person under different banners on national women development policy-2008, carried in electronic and print media, whose impact is awaited. Has it stirred women and men in different strata of society, and mobilized public opinion [...]

THE contribution of women to the economy is significant but remains beyond the spell of evaluation. It is so, despite the fact that they work at home for sixteen to twenty hours a day. They prepare food for all members of the family, maintain different equipment including those used in kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and drawing [...]

A two-day training programme on ‘PC and Internet for Women Entrepreneurs’ was held at the Knowledge Centre organised by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) under its Women Entrepreneurs and Export Development (WEED) Standing Committee (SIC). The objectives of the programme was to provide first hand knowledge on PC and Internet to small [...]

Trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, is a heinous crime that violates all tenets of human rights and dignity-that is how the Indian Women and Child Development minister Renuka Chowdhury expressed her reaction while attending a South Asia regional conference in New Delhi recently. The three-day regional conference was organized by the United [...]

A roundtable here yesterday emphasised the importance of mainstreaming the indigenous women’s movement to ensure their basic rights. The roundtable also suggested the indigenous women leaders to create awareness among people about the discrepancies they are facing now and involve politicians and policymakers in the issue to have a quick solution. Economists, politicians and indigenous [...]

Agitated students of Barisal Government Women’s College hostel staged demonstration and ransacked its dining room early Friday, protesting 30 per cent increase in daily meal charges. Students of Rowshan Jahan Hostel alleged that hostel superintendent Bashirul Huq Thursday evening served a notice raising daily meal charges to Tk 40 per head from Tk 30 with [...]

Speakers at a dialogue yesterday called on the political parties to nominate more women in the upcoming election to increase women’s participation in parliament. Although women make up 50 percent of the total population, their participation in the policymaking is very poor, they said, adding that it is not possible to bring about qualitative changes [...]

BHAVANI, a sex worker, is found lying unconscious on National Highway 5. Her shoulder is broken and her body slashed with a blade all over. She was gang-raped. A worker at the nearby petrol station reported that she has been pushed off a moving lorry. It is not clear whether she was pushed or raped [...]

Stories of Change, a 55-minute documentary by young filmmakers Kamar Ahmad Simon and Sara Afreen that portrays the challenging lives of five successful women, was premiered on March 14 at the Russian Cultural centre. A panel discussion followed the screening where human rights activist Hameeda Hossain, media personality Samia Zaman and filmmaker Tareque Masud discussed [...]

The Indian authority Tuesday evening handed over seven girls who were trafficked several times to India. The children were handed over to the Bangladesh Rifles and Women Lawyers Association by the BSF in association with a human rights organisation of India through Benapole border. The children are Suma (14), daughter of Shushil Mishtri, Ayesha Khatun [...]