Pyali Shah, 40, had met her husband on the Internet. Both hailed from Karnataka and both had been previously married. It seemed a perfect match until Pyali arrived in Australia and began experiencing relentless mental and physical abuse.
“My husband, a widower with two children, just wanted a baby-sitter. He would lock me up and beat [...]

Men and women in their early seventies are having sex more often and enjoying it more than their counterparts three and four decades ago, according to a Swedish study published Wednesday.
Septuagenarian women in particular expressed satisfaction with their amorous activities, suggesting they may have benefited more from the loosening of sexual mores.
 
Despite an array of [...]

Agitated students of Barisal Government Women’s College hostel staged demonstration and ransacked its dining room early Friday, protesting 30 per cent increase in daily meal charges.
Students of Rowshan Jahan Hostel alleged that hostel
superintendent Bashirul Huq Thursday evening served a notice raising daily meal charges to Tk 40 per head from Tk 30 with effect from [...]

BHAVANI, a sex worker, is found lying unconscious on National Highway 5. Her shoulder is broken and her body slashed with a blade all over. She was gang-raped. A worker at the nearby petrol station reported that she has been pushed off a moving lorry. It is not clear whether she was pushed or raped [...]

HUMAN trafficking has spread slavery to every continent and most countries. It goes on a par with the drugs and illegal arms trade ad is one of the most profitable forms of illegal activity.
Bangladesh is a source as well as transit for men, women and children trafficked for forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation.
Children - [...]

ICDDR,B focuses on the lives of women in Bangladesh and around the world for a simple reason: gender equality and the wellbeing of families go hand in hand. When women are empowered to live full and productive lives, their families prosper. Working to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 – promoting gender equality and empowering women [...]

Daulatdia, in Bangladesh, is one of the largest brothels in the world - a village of 1,600 women who sell sex to 3,000 men every day. As Claudia Hammond found, it is a punishing place that few will ever leave
Arriving at the port of Goalundo Ghat, you would never guess that it houses a brothel [...]

 
Women’s Rights are almost non-existent in Bangladesh. And the number of women who are murdered, beaten, tortured, or raped is astronomically high.
And, sadly, many of the women who are attacked or raped die by suicide.
The statistics are sickening and shocking.
Below are some of the disturbing statistics just from August 2004:
(Please note that these statistics are [...]

 Court in Bangladesh has handed down death sentences to three young men in connection with
the murder of a school girl.  

 
  The act of these young men led to the innocent school girl’s death, so
  they were guilty of murdering the girl  
 
 

  Judge Anwar Hossain  

A trial court in Gaibandha district on Monday [...]