Asian University for Women (AUW) will host a two-day international symposium on ‘Overcoming history: Rethinking rights and opportunities for women in Asia’ on October 17 in Dhaka, says a press release.
Co-sponsored by John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, the symposium is part of the university’s inaugural event that will culminate with a programme on [...]

Every year, 1.6 million children under the age of five die lacking access to clean water while 110,000 children of the same age bracket fade out in Bangladesh from water borne diseases, reports BSS.
According to official health statistics, 65 million under-five children are affected by water-borne diseases because of lack of sanitation.
The UN sources said, [...]

The government of Bangladesh and UNICEF Thursday held the Mid-Term Review of the Country Programme of Cooperation for Bangladeshi Children and Women covering five-year period from 2006 to 2010.
The overall aim of the programme is the progressive realisation of children’s rights to survival, education, development, protection and participation. It also contributes to the achievement of [...]

Bangladesh Naree Mukti Sangsad (Bangladesh Women’s Liberation Council) asked the government Thursday not to delay in implementing the proposed national women’s policy.
BNMS convenor Hazera Sultana said: “The fundamentalist and communal fanatics in the country are whipping up tension and agitation and opposing the women’s policy with a view to diverting the nation’s attention from the [...]

IT took a high level of strategizing. Women stood around the man given the task. They literally “protected” him. And in the end they and he won. He managed to “table” a piece of paper that was in danger of being snatched from his hands and mutilated by determined men.
One does not know whether to [...]

PAKISTANI historian Ayesha Jalal is the director of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University in the United States. Her latest book ‘Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia has been published in India by Permanent Black. Along with her earlier book, ‘Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since [...]

“This exhibition from Bangladesh showcases works by 10 contemporary women artists. Most of them have earned prominence in the artistic arena of Bangladesh in the past few decades. Some are of recent reputations. Some have careers and oeuvres that have gone through considerable changes during the course of long efforts and experimentation. Women artists have [...]

A roundtable here yesterday emphasised the importance of mainstreaming the indigenous women’s movement to ensure their basic rights.
The roundtable also suggested the indigenous women leaders to create awareness among people about the discrepancies they are facing now and involve politicians and policymakers in the issue to have a quick solution.
Economists, politicians and indigenous and women [...]

WORLD Tourism Day will be observed on September 27 with the theme “Tourism opens doors for women,” to celebrate women’s achievements in the tourism sector and encourage continuous action in support of the UN’s Millennium Development Goal 3 “Promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.” This year’s host country is Sri Lanka, an active UNWTO member [...]

Post-budget press confce on gender issue told
Shunning the focus on merely addressing the current needs, the government should look to long-term goals emphasising gender issues while presenting a budget, speakers at a press conference yesterday said.
They said the prioritisation process should aim at achieving the broader goals of women-development issues instead of the three-year ‘mid-term [...]

Dhaka: While Bangladesh has achieved impressive gains in women’s status and gender equality, access to reproductive health services, labour markets, physical security and role in decision-making need urgent attention.
A World Bank report ‘Whispers to Voices: Gender and Social Transformation in Bangladesh’ documented changes in norms, attitudes and practices related to gender equality based on national [...]

Available data on health, nutrition, education, and economic performance indicated that in the 1980s the status of women in Bangladesh remained considerably inferior to that of men. Women, in custom and practice, remained subordinate to men in almost all aspects of their lives; greater autonomy was the privilege of the rich or the necessity of [...]

Mon, Mar 31, 2008 (Reuters Life!) - Shamsunnahar Hena, a gynecologist in a Bangladesh hospital, was stunned when her pregnant patient confessed to having eaten half a kilogram of soil every day since she conceived.
A rising number of pregnant woman in Bangladesh’s tea-growing Sylhet region are eating charred soil, following a tradition that is meant [...]

Bangladeshi women’s choice of a contraceptive is influenced not only by their personal characteristics but also by their assessments of available options. For example, pill users choose their method, among other reasons, because of its convenience, availability and cost, but these factors do not play a significant role in condom users’ method choice. Users of [...]

Justice Habibur Rahman tells Karmojibi Nari confce.
An improved situation, where all men and women can have the taste of creative and participatory democracy, gradually appears to be far reachable, said Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman, former chief adviser to a caretaker government, yesterday.  “It requires further thinking whether the decision on an issue of conflict should [...]