Islami Ain Bastobayon Committee (IABC) yesterday staged protests demanding cancellation of national women development policy and the education policy.

I don’t think I’m the only one confused about age-marriage statistics in the Indian Subcontinent. After over a decade of choosing to delay marriage, have men and women began marrying early into their 20s once again? Or are they continuing to stick with the delay? From what I hear, it is becoming increasingly challenging to [...]

It was my first day at work training. Sitting in a room as the only Bangladeshi (or of Asian origin), I felt like the fish out of the water among the White English people. The very subject of our discussion was “Bangladeshi Girls”, particularly focusing on young teenage girls growing up in a Bengali dominated [...]

The government will provide maternity allowance to all working women, including female garment workers.

The stakeholders working to prevent violence against women must revise their terms of reference and strengthen coordination to get better result, said speakers at a workshop yesterday.

The first attested use of the expression “domestic violence” in a modern context, meaning “spouse abuse, violence in the home” was in 1977. Violence between spouses has long been considered a serious problem. The United States has a lengthy history of legal precedent condemning spousal abuse.

Despite many international agreements affirming their human rights, women are still much more likely than men to be poor and illiterate. They usually have less access than men to medical care, property ownership, credit, training and employment. They are far less likely than men to be politically active and far more likely to be victims [...]

Dr. Theo Colborn More than 70,000 new chemicals have been introduced to the planet since the industrial revolution, and many have never been tested for their harmful effects on health and the environment. Today there is no part of the planet that is free of man-made chemicals — some of which accumulate and magnify as [...]

Dr. Aminul Islam Akanda Girls and women in Bangladesh were facing threats to their lives, health and well-being since long. Even fifty years back, women were forbidden to go out of families and to participate in non-household activities considering them weak. Rural women could not vote in election for local government till 1956, let alone [...]

As celebrations break out across the country to welcome the new year, for several families, it will be another year of traumatic existence. For these families, whose members have become victims eve-teasing, 2010 will always be remembered as a watershed year that saw a record spurt in incidence of public sexual harassment.

My mother passed away on November 29, this year. She went strong and in her full senses, proud and even haughty till the very end. Proud that she lived by herself in the rented apartment she shared with her husband who passed away in 2007. I am glad she went at her age, 86 years, [...]

The Women’s Health Project consists of three sub-projects: Strengthening Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC); Women Friendly Hospital Initiative; and Social Mobilization and Communication.

DHAKA: Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn’t look like the average business executive.

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoswasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment [...]

AB Bank Limited organized a day-long training programme on Entrepreneurship Development for Women Entrepreneurs Wednesday at ABBL Training Academy in the city. The training programme was arranged for SME customers with a focus to increase awareness regarding proper banking activities while applying for SME loans,it is a step forwards involving the vast number of women [...]