Fazlul Haq Amini has just hurled humiliation at millions of Bengali women. He has, in unabashed manner and without batting an eyelid, made the dire prediction that if the government goes ahead with its policy on ensuring equal rights for women, there will be a deluge of illegitimate children all across the country.

The access to and control over land is the most determining factor in women empowerment besides other factors including their economic security and physical safety.

Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the Gulf Kingdom’s King Abdullah announced yesterday.

Hundreds of ethnic people from different upazilas agitated in the town yesterday demanding punishment to rapists and killers of santal woman Moriam Murmu about two months ago.

The indigenous communities are demanding to implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in full, signed in the previous tenure of Awami League government in 1997.

Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain on Thursday directed the authorities of Kamalapur Railway Station to open special ticket counters for women during occasions.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday demanded of the government to formulate and implement a code of conduct for all concerned at educational institutions to stop sexual harassment.

Hundreds of women, children and students held a procession and formed human chain in the town yesterday demanding immediate trial and punishment of the culprits who murdered housewife Nadira on July 22.

Students of Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) in Mymensingh form a human chain in front of the central library yesterday demanding punishment to a lecturer of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department of the university and a few of her loyalists as the latter assaulted a girl student in presence of the lecturer at Taposhi Rabeya Hall [...]

The union parishad (UP) chairman who allegedly led the cruel torture on two women in the name of village arbitration in Rangpur on June 26, was arrested from the capital yesterday.

Different women’s rights organisations stage a demonstration in front of Jatiya Press Club in the city yesterday protesting sexual harassment to women and violence against women. source: thedailystar.net

A mobile court jailed for a month a marriage registrar for arranging an early marriage and a man for marrying an under-aged girl at Kalai in Jaipurhat on Friday night.

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday stressed the need for amending the existing religious laws to establish the rights of women as well as real religious rules.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would not enact any law that would go against the holy Quran and Sunnah.

Rajshahi district law and order committee at a meeting on Tuesday expressed its worries over the recent rise in crimes, particularly those against women and children, in the region.