WHEN I first heard of the Asian University for Women, I immediately identified with its mission and dream. I had seen too many bright young women in Phnom Penh complain about the low quality of their education, and seen too many girls in rural areas drop out of high school because they didn’t see opportunities [...]

Although the country’s legal age of marriage for women is 18, some 66 percent of women, who are now aged between 20 and 24, got married before the age of 18, said a recent Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). The survey, however, showed that over the past two decades, the percentage of women marrying [...]

Elayne Clift IN 2003, a young woman began talking to Dr Hazel Brown as they prepared to give a press interview at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Greensboro. “You know,” she said, “my only brother is in prison for life. My only sister had three babies when she was a teenager. In grade [...]

The city beauty parlours both for men and women are doing brisk business ahead of Eid and Puja as they are flooded with ladies and gents eager to beautify themselves. They are going to the parlours to get different hair dos, hair colours and hair pluck, facial, pedicure, manicure, blitch, fair polish and so on. [...]