Rights activists have called for enacting a new law in the light of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to ensure rights of women with disabilities and their full participation in the mainstream activities.

Sabana Sultana, 26 year-old shop assistant at Nandan Mega Shop, has her promotion due for the last two months. She is going out of her way to make sure nothing goes wrong at work.

The residents of Gobra union formed a human chain yesterday protesting stalking and demanding safety of girl students.

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 High Court on Thursday directed the Ministry of Education to ensure that women working at different public and private educational institutions are not subjected to wear veil or forced to cover their head against their will. Wearing such attires should be a matter of personal choice.

WHILE addressing the inaugural ceremony of the International Women’s Day Programme at Osmani Memorial Hall in the capital on March 8 last, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made vows to repeal the existing laws that discriminate against women. The prime minister made pointed reference about the salient steps her party and government have taken including 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.

The High Court on Thursday directed the Ministry of Education to ensure that women working at different public and private educational institutions are not subjected to wear veil or forced to cover their head against their will. Wearing such attires should be a matter of personal choice.

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 4th South Asian Universities Youth Festival, popularly known as SAUFEST, was hosted by Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. A total of 29 teams representing universities from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka took

Speaker at a discussion yesterday called on the government include the labour of domestic helps in the labour law to ensure their rights to health and basic education.

“I won against Pakistan but lost to poverty” said Kakat Heninchita. Few Bangladeshis have heard of this valiant freedom fighter, known to the villagers as Kakon Bibi. Carrying ammunition to the Mukti Bahini in a ‘kolar bhela’ this poor Khashya woman from Shunamganj helped blow up a bridge in 1971. She fought with the Mukti [...]

The programmes on poverty alleviation, education and health implemented by non-government organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh are inspiring and imitable, said a visiting Australian human rights commissioner yesterday.

In the time it takes us to get to the end of this sentence, seven people have been added to the population of the world. At this rate, the United Nations (UN) estimates the number of people on the planet will nearly double by the middle of this century. Even with significant reductions in birth [...]

The International Women’s Day will be observed with enthusiasm today (Monday) in Bangladesh, as in elsewhere in the world. The observation of the day this year bears special significance as it marks its 100th observance, since it started in 1910 from New York in the USA. The International Women’s Day and related activities a century [...]