“I won against Pakistan but lost to poverty” said Kakat Heninchita. Few Bangladeshis have heard of this valiant freedom fighter, known to the villagers as Kakon Bibi. Carrying ammunition to the Mukti Bahini in a ‘kolar bhela’ this poor Khashya woman from Shunamganj helped blow up a bridge in 1971. She fought with the Mukti [...]

Violence against women with disabilities should be addressed from the perspective of citizens’ rights along with steps to enhance their mobility and security, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday. They also said that integrating physically challenged women into mainstream of society is crucial to ensure their rights.

Al Gore and his wife broke up after 40 years of marriage. The guy who stars in The Bachelor reality show broke up with his fiancé last week after being together for a lifetime by the standards of vacuous celebrities, ie, days. BP boss Tony Hayward parted company with his dividend paycheck. So I was [...]

Dowry, a widely practised social malaise, forces many families deeper into poverty and it is one of the main reasons behind violence against women, speakers at a national workshop said yesterday.

Nowadays, it’s too hard to get any newspaper which is not carrying the news of young girls committing suicide. The DS on 04th, 2010 published

Eve teasing has become a social disease in our country. We have lost many sisters due to eve teasing. We find news of suicide regularly in newspapers. A section of young boys have no work to do, and they indulge in all sorts of ugly things. We should resist eve teasing collectively.

The government is planning to establish a separate investigation cell in police force for swift investigation in cases concerning violence against women.

Reading the daily newspapers we are shattered with shame and sorrow when we see how the girls are being dealt with. Due to the presence of

The residents of Gobra union formed a human chain yesterday protesting stalking and demanding safety of girl students.

Samajtantrik Chhatra Front yesterday condemned the incidents of violence against women that have been continuing in the country, says a press release.

An 11-year-old domestic help was allegedly tortured to death by a couple in their house at East Badda in the city early hours of Monday. Police arrested husband Solaiman Mandal, who is also a final year student of City Dental College at Malibagh, and his wife Rita Begum, a housewife, on charges of killing domestic [...]

Rights activists celebrated 100 years of International Women’s Day yesterday with a call for men and women to work together to put an end to all forms of violence against women.

Her actress daughter hurt in attack The mother of a film actress was killed and actress Lata severely injured in an attack by Lata’s ex-husband and his associates on Thursday night in Savar.

Home minister Sahara Khatun said this to journalists after a meeting at the National Acid Control Council on Thursday. She said that the council had been formed in 59 of Bangladesh’s 65 districts with a view to reducing acid terrorism.

Detectives yesterday arrested Md Rubel’s maternal uncle who allegedly provided Rubel with the firearm to kill the parents of a schoolgirl at Gulshan in the city on March 24.