Girl with disability raped in Jhenaidah
‘Upon receiving complaints of abduction we rescued the child and arrested Sumon in the early hours of Tuesday’ A mentally challenged girl was reportedly raped in Collegepara of Kaliganj upazila in … Read More »
The brothels of Daulatdia: Sex workers to get honourable funeral
Scores of women gathered at the graveside, weeping for the 65-year-old’s passing but also because of the symbolic breakthrough her burial represented Often treated as less than human in life, there … Read More »
44pc women victim of domestic violence: MJF
Forty-four percent women of ethnic minority groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) experience domestic violence at least once in their lifetime, of which 82 percent cases are in the hands … Read More »
Five held for raping girl on stranded vessel
Coast Guard members yesterday rescued a girl from a stranded vessel and arrested five youths on charge of gang-raping the girl in Bhola’s Charfesson upazila. The arrestees are Yusuf Hasan Sardar, … Read More »
Female Genital Mutilation costs $1.4 billion annually: UN health agency
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) poses serious risks to the health and well-being of women and girls, but it also exacts a crippling economic toll, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). New modelling by the UN agency to coincide with the … Read More »
“Youth must prepare themselves as leaders,” says Dr Md Murad Hasan, MP
In the light of the 2030 Global Agenda, Right Here Right Now (RHRN) organised the ‘National Young SRHR Leaders Summit 2020’, where young engaging leaders participated from all over Bangladesh to … Read More »
Calls for ‘virginity repair’ surgery to be banned
Campaigners are urging the government to outlaw “virginity repair” surgery. Many Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases killed, if their spouses or families discover they have had sex … Read More »
‘Ban gender detection of unborn babies’
A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to prohibit the gender detection of unborn babies, in order to … Read More »
Rape victim’s family says they are being threatened
Family members of a 15-year-old girl, who was gang-raped by four youths on January 15 in Gazipur, alleged that they were being threatened by relatives of the accused, who are her … Read More »
13 Rohingya women rescued in capital
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday rescued 13 Rohingya women from a house in the capital’s Aftabnagar. A human trafficking gang had holed them up there for seven months with plans to … Read More »