The South Asian Network of Gender Activists and Trainers (SANGAT) recently observed South Asian Women’s Day — its fifth, on 30 November, as designated in 2005 when the network was born in the Indian city of Puri — reiterating the same vows to work together for peace, justice and human rights in the region, centred [...]

Borsha* did not know she had no right to fall in love. In fact, she did not even know, she had

no right to be. She was one of the many floating prostitutes of a mazaar area, who existed, but not really. She was a fool who made the mistake of falling in love, an imbecile [...]

Female now account for half of all people infected by HIV in developing countries. Female condom which can make to prevent both HIV transmission and unwanted pregnancy is failed to get sufficient attention of policy makers and women users in Bangladesh due to leadership, awareness and price of condom at large. Female condoms should be [...]

HAHABAZPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Shefali Begun goes to bed many nights hungry because there is nothing left after feeding her four children and husband.
But the frail mother, one of millions of poor Bangladeshi women who toil from dawn to dusk, is not complaining.
“We are a poor family. I am used to it,” said the 40-year-old [...]

A child learns the first educational lessons from his/her mother. None else can match the mother in this regard. An educated woman can do it better. Education enlightens an individual, a family, a society and ultimately an entire nation. A nation can be called educated when the entire population, both men and women, are educated.
Educated [...]

President Zillur Rahman yesterday stressed the need for establishing women’s chamber of commerce and industry in every district to involve women entrepreneurs in the mainstream development process. Rahman made the observation when an 11-member delegation of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) led by its president Selima Ahmed called on him at Bangabhaban. [...]

Being a woman in Bangladesh means a neglected and discriminated existence — an existence that strives for equality, power, and recognition in a male dominated institution relating to family, society, and the economy. Be it a poor village woman or an educated urban woman, the realities for them are mostly the [...]

As recently as 1991, the educational attainment of Bangladeshi women was among the lowest in the world.  Eighty percent were illiterate.  Equipped with few skills and uninformed about health care, family planning, and nutrition, they were trapped in a cycle of dependency.
To ensure that school-age girls, especially those in rural areas, receive an education, the [...]

Empowerment of women in Bangladesh is a important social issue and the citizen journalists of the Nari Jibon project from Bangladesh are trying to do so learning valuable computer, business, and language skills besides learning about citizen media tools such as blogging, photography and video. With these skills they are able to empower themselves with more opportunities.

Micro-credit makes women of Monipuri community self-dependent
Monipuri is the name of an ethnic community and it belongs to a patrilineal society. This community is usually found in many thanas of Moulavibazar district. The main occupation of the members of the community is agriculture, especially vegetable production and weaving. But weaving is totally [...]

The rights of women are an important indicator of global well-being. Many believe gender issues exist only in countries where religion is law.
Some believe that women’s rights are not an issue at all. Yet when women suffer and cry out about their rights being denied, people only turn deaf ears.
Women have been treated as the [...]

gender equality

In our Holy book, it is mentioned that women and men are equal. But men claim that women have been created to cater to their wishes (whims and fantasies), give birth to children to perpetuate the family line, manage the home and be responsible for the smooth running of it, together with all issues [...]

Latifa Begum looked confident with a seemingly ever-lasting smile on her face when she was frisking well-dressed and beauty-conscious women with an intelligent electronic device at the entrance to a plush beauty salon in the capital.
The invariant smile bears the testimony to the professionalism of the 32-year-old security guard who was abandoned by her husband [...]

WITH the development of knowledge and science, superstition and narrowness is gradually declining. But the honour due to women is still not given.
By virtue of their own brain, women are achieving their position in educational institutions, offices, the legal profession and other work-places. No doubt they achieved a great deal of advancement. It is a [...]

The number of working and floating women is increasing in the city but none of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) public toilets is suitable for them.
In absence of adequate number of public toilets in the city, men can respond to the call of nature in open spaces but women cannot take such liberty.
According to doctors, [...]