BANGLADESH has once again found itself in the global spotlight following the shocking cases of child rape in Magura and Munshiganj in March. The horrific abuse and subsequent death of an 8-year-old child have sparked nationwide outrage...
ON MARCH 12, 2006, five United States soldiers from the 101st airborne division drank whiskey, plotted a massacre and descended on the home of聽Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. They shot her father, mother and聽6-year-old sister聽execution-style. Then, as her baby sister鈥檚 body cooled on the floor, they took turns raping Abeer. When they were done...
The interim government on Monday approved in principle a draft bill to amend the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000, incorporating necessary changes, including the introduction of a tribunal to deal with child rape cases.
Magura鈥檚 eight-year-old rape victim died of cardiac arrest on Thursday afternoon while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka...
DNA samples from three accused in the case over rape of an eight-year-old girl in Magura were collected on Tuesday night for testing...