THE phrase work鈥搇ife balance was coined in Britain in the late 1970s and popularised in the United States during the 1980s, propelled by the Women鈥檚 Liberation Movement, which pressed for a fairer division between career and domestic responsibilities. Historians link its early usage to British campaigners lobbying for workplace reforms for working mothers. Since...
A South Korean court acquitted on Wednesday a woman convicted six decades ago for defending herself against sexual violence, after she challenged the ruling inspired by the country鈥檚 #MeToo movement...
Activists on Tuesday demanded that the government implement the six-point Phulbari agreement, signed in 2006, by September, otherwise they would wage a tougher movement...
A former coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, a platform which spearheaded the July uprising ousting the Awami League regime, urged Rajshahi University authorities to allow students whose enrolment expired before August 5 to participate in the coming central students鈥� union elections...
A student-led initiative, the 鈥業UCSU formation movement鈥�, was launched at the Islamic University in Kushtia, demanding the formation of the long-awaited Islamic University Central Students鈥� Union and the announcement of a clear roadmap for its establishment...
I SPENT the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counsellor in Vermont. She was headed for UC Berkeley in the fall, where she would, as she later described it, 鈥榤ajor in history and minor in rioting.鈥� Meanwhile, I was headed back to junior high school. I was already convinced that our government was...
The police have filed a charge sheet before a court in Dhaka against 13 people, including president of Mohammadpur unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, Naimul Islam Russell, in a case allegedly for sexually abusing a woman for taking part in the anti-quota student movement in July 2024...
Jahangirnagar University authorities have permanently expelled 64 current students and revoked the academic certificates of 73 former students for their involvement in last year鈥檚 violent attack on teachers and students during an anti-discrimination movement on the campus...
ROAD safety has continuously been put at bay as the number of fatal accidents has only increased for seven years since the road safety movement in 2018 after a bus killed two college students in Dhaka on July 29 that year. The government made the Road Transport Act 2018 in September that year. Police data show that 2,635 died in road accidents...
A traffic police constable in Kushtia has been suspended over a Facebook post allegedly defaming the July movement...
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan on Tuesday said that the historic events of the Language Movement in 1952, the mass uprising in 1969, the War of Independence in 1971, the anti-autocracy movement in 1990s and the 2024 student-mass uprising complemented each other...
Movement for Justice-BMU, an organisation of Bangladesh Medical University, submitted a memorandum on Sunday to its vice-chancellor Professor Md Shahinul Alam, demanding a campus free from fascism and discrimination...
A rational reform of the quota system in government jobs has remained unresolved even after a year of the anti-quota movement under the Students Against Discrimination platform in July-August 2024 that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Dhaka University professor emeritus and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the country Serajul Islam Choudhury on Monday said that without the social revolution, the fate of the common people in the country could not be changed...
AS A transnational feminist scholar of social movements, when the Women鈥檚 Affairs Reform Commission鈥檚 report came out on April 19, I became keen on reviewing the 433 recommendations under 15 thematic areas. I was initially a bit frustrated to see that the report primarily focused on 鈥榚quality between women and men鈥�...
MANY people are now openly saying that the government and the state are not functioning well. There is no reason to brand everyone making such observations as fascists or their sympathisers. A significant portion of those who directly participated in or supported the anti-fascist movement in the past are also openly voicing such concerns, motivated by their...
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
A case was filed against four leaders, including the member secretary of Sylhet district unit of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement by a female leader of the platform on allegation of threatening to rape her after abduction.
Today is the ninth anniversary of the death of language movement hero, freedom fighter and senior journalist Sadeq Khan...
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Mohammad Ezaz on Tuesday said that it would debar rickshaw movement on main roads within its purview while a campaign was underway against battery-driven rickshaws...
A group of miscreants allegedly led by an expelled leader of the Student Movement Against Discrimination beat the platform鈥檚 four leaders, including its Habiganj district member secretary Mahdi Hasan, injured on Friday evening.
On the 143rd day of its ongoing sit-in protest, the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement (Bangladesh Gachh Raksha Andolon) on Monday sent a letter to the interim government chief adviser seeking an independent commission to probe over the demand to cancel the proposed link road of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from FDC to Palashi.
Members of the Road Safety Movement, a joint platform of the activists of the road safety movement, on Sunday demanded a ban on production of battery-run auto-rickshaws, locally made three-wheelers, and their movement on main roads...
The country's restaurant owners threatened to launch a nationwide movement involving all restaurant owners and workers if the Dhaka South City Corporation did not revoke their notice over roof-top eateries and engage in constructive dialogue...
Gana Odhikar Parishad general secretary Rashed Khan on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal alleging that he was tortured in custody in Dhaka by detained Rangamati additional superintendent of police Ishtiaq Ahmed during the 2018 quota reform movement...
THE term 鈥榦pposition to inequality鈥� has re-emerged with striking political significance in the wake of the August student-popular uprising led by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. But this resurgence raises a pressing question: Is opposition to inequality merely a slogan to mobilise mass sentiment, or does it hold practical significance in dismantling the...
A teenage daughter of a deceased during the July-August mass uprising reportedly killed herself in the capital鈥檚 Adabor area Saturday night, 39 days after she was raped in Patuakhali district on March 18.
Sunamganj Medical College students on Wednesday withdrew their protest programmes following assurances from the authorities that their two-point demand, including opening of the college hospital, would be met by December this year...
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Wednesday emphasised the need for a social movement to combat rising noise pollution...
Protesting students of Sunamganj Medical College on Monday, the seventh day of their ongoing movement, imposed a complete shutdown on the campus pressing for their two-point demand, including immediate opening of the hospital on the college campus...