A cross-section of 243 citizens on Tuesday called for a proper investigation into the death of Sornomoye Biswas, a trainee graphic designer at the online news portal Dhaka Stream, and demanded that those responsible be held accountable...
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...
Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death Thursday, pushing this year鈥檚 number of foreigners executed past 100 鈥� a spike in capital punishment that human rights groups have strongly condemned...
Women leaders at a protest rally in Dhaka on Wednesday called on the interim government to take immediate steps to arrest the rapist responsible for the rape of the woman at Muradnagar in Cumilla...
ON MAY 14, Bangladesh was shocked by the tragic and brutal death of seven-year-old Sanim Hossain, a student at Al-Mu鈥檌n Islami Academy in Lakshmipur. Reports indicate that his teacher, Mahmudur Rahman, beat him to death. What followed was even more disturbing 鈥� the institution attempted to disguise the killing as a suicide. The suggestion that...
A case was filed against anti-rape protesters on Tuesday night as protests against rape and other forms of violence against women continued for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding capital punishment for rapists...
THIS is concerning that children are still routinely subjected to corporal punishment and there is absence of an enabling environment for child development. On the first-ever International Day of Play observed on June 13, UNICEF published a study, estimating that about 330 million children regularly endure psychological aggression...
