Eve teasing has recently been growing like an epidemic throughout the country. The term is presently very common to the younger generations. It means “to excite girls with objectionable questions, annoyance, irritating, ambling limbs and by creating blockade on the way without showing any courtesy.” Eve-teasing actually means nonsensical gestures use of slang language in [...]

Dhaka, Apr 19 RAB helped organise a local arbitration as a way of entrapping four men, accused of raping a teenager.

Sherpur, April 19  The Sherpur police have brought out a procession against women’s harassment on Monday.

Bagerhat, Apr 16  A woman burst into tears describing her public humiliation eight years ago. Her ordeal of Aug 21, 2002 still seemed vivid in her memory.

A woman teacher of international relations at Jahangirnagar University on Thursday lodged a complaint with the

The High Court yesterday in a ruling said none can force women, working at public and private educational institutions, to wear veils or cover their heads against their wills. The court directed the education ministry to ensure the execution of its order.

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.

A court here on Tuesday awarded death penalty to two people and life-term imprisonment to another person for killing five-year-old girl Rozina in the city in December, 2000.

WE welcome the PMO’s directive to the police to arrest the eve teasers responsible for a young schoolgirl committing suicide on Saturday in the city’s Nandipara area. Stern action is definitely warranted against young men who make it virtually impossible for school and college going girls to attend their classes. The decision to deploy plainclothes [...]

The members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday afternoon arrested a top Tangail Jubo league leader, the main accused in NGO worker rape case, along with contraband phensidyl and liquor.

On the first day of the special drive to stop harassment of schoolgirls, police yesterday picked up seven teenage boys from the capital’s Lalbagh area on suspicion.

The High Court on Thursday directed the government and authorities of different ministries and organisations concerned to submit report on what steps they have taken to prevent sexual harassment against women. The court directed to submit the report through the Supreme Court registrar.

The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a set of guidelines defining sexual misdemeanours to prevent any kind of physical, mental or sexual harassment of women, girls and children at their workplaces, educational institutions and other public places including roads across the country. The HC directed the government to make a law on the basis of [...]

FOR my column title today, I am stealing the title of the classic account by Betsy Hartmann and James Boyce of the year they spent in a small Bangladeshi village in the early 1970s. The violence in their title refers to the violence done to the soul by the grinding poverty and hopelessness they found [...]