Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said strict application of law is equally essential as change of mindset, values and morality is necessary to check repression on women. The head of the caretaker government made the remark at a function organised by the Women and Children Affairs Ministry at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium for distributing Begum [...]

Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong was inaugurated yesterday with Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus expressing the hope that the new university would bridge different nationalities, their cultures and values, and create new human beings who would be leaders to build societies free of all sorts of discrimination. The globally famed economist said at [...]

The Dhaka Metropolitan Women’s School football tournament kicks off today in Dhaka with 12 schools participating in the first ever tournament school girls. Aga Khan International School take on Summer Field in the opening match at the Dhanmondi Women’s Sports Complex, where Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) president Kazi Salahuddin declares the meet open. Although this [...]

Sabina Begum wakes early in the morning and walks instinctively to a tiny room next to her home. She unbolts the factory; double-checks machinery and raw materials and takes a deep breath to begin a new day. She prepares for the manufacturing process that will include choosing the fabric, matching sewing thread colours, setting designs [...]

For the first time in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), an indigenous woman is contesting from Rangamati constituency in the upcoming parliamentary election. Moitree Chakma, wife of Retired district joint judge Dipen Dewan, is in the polls race as an independent candidate. She, along with her husband, submitted her nomination paper on the last day set [...]

“THOUGH I was married at a very young age, I always knew that I was made for some thing more.” This is how Shahnaz Hossain, one of the world’s greatest woman entrepreneurs expresses herself when she tells her story of success. Credited with single- handedly placing Indian herbals on the world cosmetic map, Shahnaz’s success [...]

FOR parents nothing can be more heartbreaking than seeing their young daughter’s corpse covered in white sheets. Rozina Akhter’s parents had such a misfortune a few weeks back. The body of their beloved daughter Rozina, 20, was on a van at the Bishwamvarpur police station, Sunamganj. No, she did not die in a road accident [...]

Mahfuza Akter Kiron and her panel swept Women’s Sports Federation election held Wednesday, reports UNB. Kiron was elected beating her rival Quamrun Nahar Dana by 10 votes. She bagged 53 votes while Dana got 43. Kiron led panel won in all the 29 seats of the excutive committee. The government will nominate two other members [...]

MOST functionaries of the important microfinance institutions (MFI) of the world come to Bangladesh for learning ASA’s micro finance model because it is cost-effective and very simple. Accordingly, a 15-member Filipino MFI team came to Bangladesh to visit ASA’s programme recently. The name of their organisation is Bank-CARD, Philippines. After theoretical session at the ASA [...]

Pheromones are chemical messages sent by one member of a living organism to another belonging to the same species. Of the various pheromones, those related with sex have been most widely studied. The first such pheromone ever synthesised about half a century back (1959) was Bombykol, which is released by the silk moth. It is [...]

SUKRITY Dutta, a brilliant student of Dhaka University’s Mass Communication and Journalism Department, is under tremendous pressure to get married. But, she doesn’t want to marry before she joins a good job after university. “In fact, I’ve been under pressure since my admission to the university and now I’m facing a mounting pressure. Though my [...]

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) has strongly demanded formulation of a new act to implement the policy initiated by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to resist sexual harassment in higher educational institutions. At a press conference at the National Press Club in the city yesterday Parishad President Ayesha Khanam said the existing laws are not enough [...]

gender equality In our Holy book, it is mentioned that women and men are equal. But men claim that women have been created to cater to their wishes (whims and fantasies), give birth to children to perpetuate the family line, manage the home and be responsible for the smooth running of it, together with all [...]

The violent protests against certain provisions of giving women equal rights, incorporated in the National Women Development Policy (NWDP), that some Islamic groups resorted to recently, prompted the government to form a review committee to examine the issue in detail. The committee has recommended that six of the provisions be expunged from the NWDP as [...]

The prize giving ceremony of the Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards (CMA) was held at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre on November 20, 2008. The chief guest of the awards ceremony Dr. A.B. Mirza Md. Azizul Islam, Adviser, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning, presented the awards. Also presiding over the ceremony were Dr. Wahiduddin [...]