Rights activists celebrated 100 years of International Women’s Day yesterday with a call for men and women to work together to put an end to all forms of violence against women.

A woman councillor of Chittagong City Corporation yesterday filed a defamation case against Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury here on charge of misbehaving with her at a meeting on Tuesday.

Women should be given due opportunity to go forward and the recognition for their deeds has a positive impact on social progress as well as advancement.

Women become more vulnerable when a community faces the negative impacts of climate change, said speakers at a dialogue yesterday.

When women tried to join the bench on Egypt’s top administrative court, the uproar from its judges was fierce. Women are too emotional, they insisted and who will take care of the family if the mother is busy with the arduous tasks of the courtroom?

The present government will not stop any pro-people project and programme, which were initiated during the last BNP-led four-party alliance government.

Marginalised women from excluded communities raised their voice yesterday demanding an end to gender and racial discrimination they face in their everyday life.

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.

Visitors emerge from the 15th Dhaka International Trade Fair 2010. The annual event has gained popularity among urban people.

EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: PROGRESS FOR ALL: Nari Uddug Kendra, a non-government organisation, brought out a rally in the city yesterday to observe the 100th International Women’s Day

INTERNATIONAL CEDAW Day was observed on September 3. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the most important international instrument for protecting women’s human rights, and more than 185 countries of the world are signatories. Bangladesh signed this convention on November 6, 1984.

Recipients of Ananya Top Ten Awards 2009 pose for a photograph with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and other guests at the prize giving ceremony at Poet Sufia Kamal Auditorium of the National Museum in the city yesterday

Speaker offers talks with opposition to settle dispute Staff Correspondent Speaker Abdul Hamid will mediate talks between the chief whips to resolve the row over letters assigning the ruling Awami League lawmakers from women’s quota to oversee development activities in the opposition constituencies. He came up with the proposal following a heated debate over the [...]

It is only woes without empowerment. Md. Asadullah Khan

Muhith tells Mahila Parishad council Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said his government is working to recognise the domestic labour of women, which always remains uncounted in patriarchal society. “The government also believes in the equal rights of labour and it will work to enforce the employers to pay same wages and rights at workplaces.” [...]