A lot of women are getting into crime, even serious ones, like carrying our killing missions. They say there are three reasons why thugs recruit women. The first is to hoodwink the law enforcers. They are not in the least hoodwinked as they know most of the criminals and their ’sisters’. But they cannot do [...]

THE link between vanishing coconut groves and shrinking fish catches or the disappearance of rainbow-winged dragonflies and declining harvests may appear tenuous, improbable, even a flight of fantasy. But these are observations from the ground and help us piece together that elemental jigsaw called climate change.
As climate scientists do their maths to defend their positions [...]

The government will revive the National Women Development Policy 1997, which was formulated by the previous Awami League government, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury told the House today.
While replying to a query of AL lawmaker Junaid Ahmed Palak, she said the previous government of Sheikh Hasina formulated the national women [...]

Boring? Predictable? Women’s tennis has been written off as a spectacle in recent times, but the US Open has proved otherwise.
While the men’s tournament stuck mainly to the script, the women’s singles was a roller-coaster of upsets, incidents and talking points.
Kim Clijsters topped the bill winning her second title at Flushing Meadows, just five weeks [...]

Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajot Friday staged a demonstration against the attempt to change the Hindu family law at Muktangon in the city, said a press release.
They also declared for holding a grand rally of the organization in this context in October this year.
Speakers said Hindus are living peacefully under the existing Hindu family law for [...]

How do you judge the progress of a society? This query raises another question: what is the status of women within the society?
Treatment of women mirrors a society. It implies that the yardstick of judging a society is to measure as to what extent women enjoy rights as equal as men in all spheres of [...]

Women working in different sectors in Dhaka City and other parts of the country are routinely subjected to inhumane forms of exploitation, including physical and mental abuse. Women working at different emerging sectors including apparel have expressed their anger over the sexual harassment they often face in their working zones. Talking to this correspondent, a [...]

Notwithstanding a change in social attitudes towards women’s employment, and involvement in the community and public life during the last decade, social curses like dowry, rape and violence have not declined. In the marriage market, monetary and asset transaction still exist at all levels, indicating the commodity status of a girl, [...]

On November 4, 2008, the United States of America embraced ‘change’ by electing Barrack Obama as the 44th President of America and while I was waiting for the bus in the morning after the election, there were two African American women having a conversation about Obama’s victory. Both had the positive view that his presidency [...]

Islam has granted woman full rights as may be necessary to build a happy and peaceful life. But he woman of Bangladesh is often subjected to injustice in their family lives and in the society although Islam gives them equal status of a man- (Ref: Verse No.3/191). It has been observed that they cannot take [...]

I never wanted to look into a mirror again”….. “Why do people think it is my fault?”….. “The pain was unbearable and I wanted to die” ….. “I am afraid to go home because the person who did this to me is still roaming free.”…. ” I am only 15 and I want to go [...]

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 [...]

When the Saron Lower Primary School in Saron village, Assam, was burnt down by militants during an ethnic clash in 2003, Bimala Hmar, an assistant teacher there, took it upon herself to ensure that the education of the children would not suffer. She let the school be run from her home, one of the few [...]

The observance is not a run of the mill affair, indeed cannot be, for there are the very critical issues that have in recent years arisen about the position and status of women across the globe. Given the particular context in which women pursue life here in Bangladesh, it can be said with a fair [...]

THE World Woman Day, March 8, is an important day, reminding us about the self-sacrifice of women for their rights.
Women in our country enjoys a special position. From 1991 in all elections in Bangladesh the people elected women as their prime ministers. At present three important ministers of the country are women. We can be [...]