Celebrations with a difference – felicitating women achievers at dol khela celebrations organized by Bengali community.

As a performer she enjoys a charismatic fame; the epitome of her career was in the ’90s. Through her convincing performances in many popular TV plays as well as in theatre, Bipasha became a face known and liked by everyone, young and old. However, she gradually reduced working in the media as she became more [...]

Indian activists marked International Women’s Day yesterday by protesting over a spate of violent attacks launched on women by religious extremists in the name of “moral policing.” A collective formed by residents in Bangalore, in India’s south, met in parks and open areas where young Hindu extremists have targeted women for wearing jeans, or being [...]

The observance is not a run of the mill affair, indeed cannot be, for there are the very critical issues that have in recent years arisen about the position and status of women across the globe. Given the particular context in which women pursue life here in Bangladesh, it can be said with a fair [...]

Ferdous Ara Khanam (Alieya Ferdowsi) is an icon of woman power. The dynamo of energy dons multiple roles effortlessly — as educationist, sports organiser, TV artiste, writer and drama director. What’s her view of International Women’s Day? Alieya responds, “Women all over the world juggle many roles for the betterment of their families — as [...]

A Woman’s Worth Fahmida Khatun pushes for the need to stop paying lip service and start making gender equality a reality in Bangladesh Noor Alam/ Driknews Being a woman in Bangladesh means a neglected and discriminated existence — an existence that strives for equality, power, and recognition in a male dominated institution relating to family, [...]

IT is difficult to accept why the banks and financial institutions do not provide loans carrying low rates of interest to women entrepreneurs who run small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Neither the banks nor the financial institutions are following the policy of the central bank in this regard. A Tk 500 crore SME fund was [...]

THE World Woman Day, March 8, is an important day, reminding us about the self-sacrifice of women for their rights. Women in our country enjoys a special position. From 1991 in all elections in Bangladesh the people elected women as their prime ministers. At present three important ministers of the country are women. We can [...]

There  is a prevailing phenomenon and this is the bad behavior by rickshaw-pullers, drivers of CNGs, taxis or even conductors of buses, with female passengers, from girls to older women. Why do these people behave so boorishly with womenfolk? When I asked a few of them, they denied ever doing anything like but admitted that [...]

THE current economic crisis is unravelling before us faster than even the most pessimistic of experts predicted just a few months ago. The effects are already trickling down to ordinary working people. In Asia Pacific, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has projected that as many as 27 million more people could become unemployed this year. [...]

Empowerment of women in Bangladesh is a important social issue and the citizen journalists of the Nari Jibon project from Bangladesh are trying to do so learning valuable computer, business, and language skills besides learning about citizen media tools such as blogging, photography and video. With these skills they are able to empower themselves with more opportunities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced her government’s commitment to revoke discriminatory laws against women, reports bdnews24.com. She called upon women and men to work together for establishing the rights of womenfolk. The Prime Minister made the comment while speaking at a rally to mark “International Women’s Day-2009″ organised by Women and Children Affairs Ministry at [...]

A senior official of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) called for accessible, acceptable and affordable maternal and child health services for all migrants to lessen the vulnerability of women to migration, reports BSS. “Women and girls, especially when forced to migrate or when in an irregular situation, are disproportionately affected by the risks of [...]

The physically challenged women have demanded their representation at all tiers of governance from the union parishad to the national parliament. They made the demands in separate programmes including a press conference and human chain formation organised here Saturday and Sunday to press their demands of ensuring one reserved seat for them in the parliament [...]

National trade unions, human rights and women rights organisations, workers and labour rights organisations should come forward for the implementation of the ‘common minimum demand’ for all working women without making any difference of their workplace, occupation and designation, said a press release. Speakers said this at a discussion meeting aiming to observe International Women’s [...]