Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun has said the government is contemplating a new law to control domestic violence in the country.
“There are many laws in our country to control violence against women… the need is for their proper implementation,” she told reporters after speaking at the ‘Consultation on Regional Arrangement for Creating South Asia Convention [...]

Failing to endure torture by her employer, 12-year-old Hashi fled the house where she worked as a domestic help but lost her way while trying to return to his village home at Sirajganj from the capital on September 19.
Scared, she asked people how to reach Sirajganj. Finally, she landed in the Victim Support Centre at [...]

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 before [...]

The women and children affairs ministry opened the National Trauma Counselling Centre at the Department of Women Affairs building yesterday to provide counselling to women victims of violence.
The centre was launched under a joint venture project titled ‘Multi-sectoral Programme on Violence against Women’ undertaken by the Bangladesh government and the Danish government.
Speakers at the launching [...]

A survey conducted by Data Management Aid (DMA) of Police Reform Programme (PRP) yesterday revealed that none of the women feels secure under the custody of general police stations, while 59 percent women feel secured under the custody of model police stations.
DMA disclosed this at a findings dissemination session of Public Attitude Follow-up Survey held [...]

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 [...]

Oppression of women is as old as the human civilisation. History only narrates and highlights the bravado of kings and warriors, carefully sidelining the contributions of women and the inspiration they provided.
Featuring the triumphs of eight historic and contemporary women, Yukta, an organisation of recitors, arranged a programme at the British Council Auditorium (on Fuller [...]

The Women Entrepreneur Association of Bangladesh (WEAB) Saturday organised a ‘domestic violence advisory roundtable’ at a city hotel.
The discussion centred on best practices for using community involvement to prevent domestic violence. It also covered topics such as assessing the effectiveness of domestic violence prevention programmes.
WEAB founder member Nasreen Awal welcomed the participants of the programme, [...]

The majority of violence against women take place at their own residences, but in most of the cases these incidents go unreported and women suffer silently while the abusers escape unpunished, speakers at a workshop said yesterday. Prip Trust organised the workshop titled ‘International workshop on situation of violence against women in Bangladesh’ at IDB [...]

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expresses its concern over the worldwide prevalence of violence against women. In spite of some encouraging signs of progress to address violence against women through legislative measures and policies, in every society in the world, women and girls continue to suffer [...]

Farida being seriously injured got admitted at the Bonpara Upazila Health Complex of Natore district. Newly married Farida was seven month pregnant. But she had her miscarriage due to physical torture by her husband Latif, He beat her with bamboo stick after failing to collect dowry money. Farida’s father gave several thousand taka after their [...]

Ferdousi is a girl of 22 studying in a renowned private university. She is good-looking and lovely in appearance. Two month ago, her settle marriage day was fixed and final but it was fully broken down due to the curse of dowry. Her father is a service holder in general. He did not arrange the [...]

Milon Char is an island in the turbulent Gomani River in mid-west Bangladesh – an inhospitable area, which until recently was uninhabited. But for the neglected people at the margins of Bangladeshi society, it provides an opportunity to own land and build a future.
With the help of an organisation called Samata, thousands of poor families [...]

It was a long pending demand of the Indian women’s movement: a law to address domestic violence. So when the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, came into force in October 2006, it was generally welcomed by women activists as a step in the right direction.
The PWDVA is a gender-specific law that recognises [...]

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 parents [...]