Television has become a major tool for showing women in stereotypical roles.  Imagine a day with no newspaper, no television, not one billboard looming over you no matter where you may be. It’s that difficult to get away from the media. Be it the news, your favourite drama serial, a movie with a friend or [...]

Khulna street children. “Countless Bangladeshi girls are being sold into prostitution in India” Last night I was watching Comic Relief ( an annual charity fund raising initiative) with my wife and son. We like Top Gear comic shenanigans and that is why we were watching it. Suddenly one of the “charity  causes” was aired. Most of [...]

Our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote- the Good done by the civilization, half created by man and rests by the women. This is an eternal statement about the development of human civilization. From the dawn of the civilization women and men worked together to make the future brighter. In a certain point of the [...]

Talha Bin Habib, back from Kurigram Continued river erosion, poor communication system, seasonal monga and limited income opportunities deprive people of Rangpur, Kurigram and Lalmonirhat from taking nutritious diet that usually push them to embrace to suffer various diseases throughout the year. But the scenario of Kurigram district is worst than those of other districts. [...]

Women are making steady inroads into almost every profession in South Asia these days. Yet, when it comes to politics, why are many women politicians not seen? The reason, according to an NGO, is violence – more psychological than physical – against women in politics. Representatives of the South Asia Partnership (SAP), an international organisation [...]

HAHABAZPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Shefali Begun goes to bed many nights hungry because there is nothing left after feeding her four children and husband. But the frail mother, one of millions of poor Bangladeshi women who toil from dawn to dusk, is not complaining. “We are a poor family. I am used to it,” said [...]

Ben Beaumont speaks to Hasina from an island community in Bangladesh, where women are at the heart of the response to climate change.Ben Beaumont speaks to Hasina from an island community in Bangladesh, where women are at the heart of the response to climate change. “We had our own land, but the river washed it [...]

By Azmal Hosen Mamun Shahnaz is a 14 year old girl with a speech and hearing impairment who lives in the Gomonondi UP of Chittagong District. When she was very young, her mother took her to see a village doctor and then to a herbal doctor, but neither of them were able to remedy her [...]