Nine out of every ten children aged between 1 and 14 years in Bangladesh face physical punishment or psychological abuse, often inflicted by parents, teachers or guardians, according to a report presented at a national seminar in the capital on Monday...
A survey by a woman rights organisation has revealed that in 2024, a staggering 60 per cent of the girl children who faced violence were victims of rape...
IT IS reassuring that the government has taken steps to investigate the police action against a rickshaw puller, who was arrested on August 15 after being physically assaulted by a 鈥榤ob鈥� for trying to place flowers and pay his respects to the founding president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibar Rahman, at Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka. The beaten and injured rickshaw puller was taken...
A 30-year-old man was hacked to death allegedly by his father at Singra upazila in Natore on Saturday night following a family feud over his drug addiction...
The Bangladesh Army has formed a high-level investigation board to probe an allegation of abuse of a woman by a senior army officer, which recently surfaced on social media...
As part of ensuring law and order and curbing crimes, Bangladesh Navy arrested a man over abusing a male child and seized illegal nets from a warehouse at Manpura in Bhola on Friday night...
Disgraced South Korean ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted for abuse of power Saturday over his declaration of martial law last year, as investigators widened an insurrection probe...
A French archbishop鈥檚 decision to promote a priest who was sentenced to jail for raping a teenaged boy has drawn new condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church for its record on sex abuse...
Popular Life Insurance Company Limited on Thursday won the first prize for its initiatives against drug abuse, said a press release...
Labour and employment adviser Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Saturday blamed past misgovernance and political abuse for the failure of the country鈥檚 industrial sector, stating that factory owners used to hold political power and parliamentary positions, leading to exploitation rather than fair governance...
Los Angeles county has agreed to pay $4 billion to settle thousands of sex abuse claims dating back decades, it said Friday, in what looks set to be the largest-ever such settlement.
Young artist Md Zahurul Islam has portrayed the stories of abused women and children in his first solo exhibition titled Ignition of Metaphor under way at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka...
HOW many women in your life are affected by gender-based violence 鈥� your mother, sister, partner, or friend? What if we all took responsibility to protect them? Every day, millions of women live in fear 鈥� fear of physical abuse, emotional manipulation, and harassment. Gender-based violence is a silent epidemic, often hidden behind closed doors or disguised as cultural norms. What鈥檚 often ignored...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday said that no one, even the prime minister, will not be able to abuse power arbitrarily in future Bangladesh...
More than 400 women and witnesses have come forward in the past six weeks alleging sexual misconduct by late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, UK lawyers announced on Thursday.
The United Nations fact-finding mission investigating rights abuses and atrocities committed during the July-August mass uprising is likely to finalise its report by the first week of December...
Malaysian authorities have rescued hundreds of children from care homes where they were allegedly physically and sexually abused and have arrested scores of people in large scale raids, police said on Wednesday...
The Catholic Church is to pay 104 million Canadian dollars ($76 million) to hundreds of victims of sexual abuse from eastern Canada, according to a...
A Nepali court on Monday sentenced a man whose followers believe him to be a reincarnation of Buddha to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse...
A seminar on child rights, sexual abuse, trafficking and protection was held at the conference room of the Manarat International University in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan on Sunday...
THIS is heartening that the Anti-Corruption Commission, following wide criticism, eventually has taken the initiative to investigate the alleged illegal amassing of huge wealth by former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed and his family...
