Speakers at a workshop here yesterday said 119 women fell victim of acid violence and 419 were raped during the last 10 months across the country.
They said violence against women had risen due to lack of proper initiative against this vice and also awareness among the people in the country.
Human Rights Organisation ‘Odhikar’ and the [...]

Students and women’s rights activists yesterday demanded implementation of a policy to resist sexual harassment of female students in the universities urging all to come forward to help stop recurrence of such incidents in future.
The press conference was organised by Women for Women at the National Press Club in the city.
At the press conference, some [...]

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 [...]

  The constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh ensures equal rights for all citizens, irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Thus women enjoy the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression, association and assembly which form the basis of political activity in a civil society. But in practice women [...]

Home Affairs Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin Tuesday urged all to join the fight against human smuggling, as some 50 Bangladeshi girls are lured out to India everyday and coerced into prostitution, reports UNB.
“Organised criminals earn billions of dollars by trading human beings like merchandise, and it’s the high time that we bring an [...]

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 [...]