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 [...]

Trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, is a heinous crime that violates all tenets of human rights and dignity-that is how the Indian Women and Child Development minister Renuka Chowdhury expressed her reaction while attending a South Asia regional conference in New Delhi recently. The three-day regional conference was organized by the United [...]

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.
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More than 90 per cent of working women both in rural and urban areas have been experiencing various kinds of gender violence, including verbal, physical, mental and sexual, at their workplaces, reports BSS.
This was revealed by a study styled ‘Gender Based Violence at the Workplace : Causes and Consequences’ saying 92.3 per cent working women [...]

ALTHOUGH human beings today are supposed to enjoy greater physical security compared to ages gone by, the ground realities tell a different story. Greater recognition of human rights and enforcement of the same, granting of voting rights to previously disenfranchised people, legislation to end slavery etc., have internationally created an environment that discourages such oppression [...]

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 [...]