COMPLAINTS of economic violence against women have, as statistics with the National Helpline Centre for Violence against Women and Children suggest, increased for four years, with 460,358 calls having been received in 2024, which account for more than a half of all the calls, 939,700, in connection with violence against women of any forms received that..
Complaints of economic violence against women are on the rise in the past four years, according to National Helpline Centre for Violence against Women and Children data.
THE year 2024 will forever be etched in Bangladesh鈥檚 political history. It marks the fall of an autocratic regime, the victory of the people, and a significant shift in the country鈥檚 political landscape. However, despite this monumental political achievement, the progress in addressing gender-based violence and achieving equality for women remains...
Rights activists and other speakers at a meeting on Thursday called for enactment of a law to prevent sexual harassment and gender-based violence...
Journalists Markenzy Nathoux and Jimmy Jean were killed 鈥榙uring an attack by bandits from the coalition 鈥淰iv Ansanm鈥� (Living Together)鈥� at the State University of Haiti Hospital...
Political violence in Bangladesh rises again with nine more people killed in November against four killings in October.
Ten people accused in the murder case of Chattogram court lawyer Saiful Islam Alif have been shown arrested in a case filed over vandalism and crude bomb explosions on the court premises...
A Chattogram court on Tuesday sent eight accused arrested in connection with the clashes and vandalism during over ex-ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna鈥檚 bail denial on a five-day police remand...
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...
Acting Australian high commissioner to Bangladesh Nardia Simpson said that Australia was committed to advancing gender equality and combating gender-based violence in all its forms...
VIOLENCE against women and girls has been found to be the deadliest, most prevalent, and most pervasive human rights violation in every community across the world, be it rich or poor, literate or illiterate, developed or undeveloped, resulting in the sad demise of a woman every 10 minutes globally. Such omnipresence of violence poses operational challenges for designing protocols and interventions...
THE 鈥�16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence鈥� is a global campaign observed annually from November 25 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to December 10 (Human Rights Day). Its core purpose is to galvanise efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥楿nited for Justice: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls,鈥� emphasises...
THE streets of Dhaka, long bustling with the vigour of youth and the promise of intellectual pursuits, were transformed into battle zones over the past week. What should have been a celebration of academic heritage turned into a shameful display of student violence. The clashes between students of Dhaka College and City College, as well as the broader unrest involving other institutions such as...
Clashes erupted between police and Hindu community people on a Chattogram court premises on Tuesday after the court rejected bail to former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in a sedition case...
Ambassador of the European Union to Bangladesh Michael Miller on Tuesday said that the European Union is dedicated to ensuring that all people, especially women and girls, are free from all forms of gender-based violence, and have access to safe spaces at home, workplace and at public spheres...
Speakers, including an academic, at a roundtable discussion on Sunday emphasised that coordinated efforts were essential to eliminate child marriage and violence against children nationwide...
THE ongoing violence in Gaza has reached an alarming peak, with 93 more lives lost in the latest Israeli airstrikes on October 30. This brings the death toll past 43,000, a tragic number mostly comprising civilians and children, making it one of the deadliest periods in the region鈥檚 history. Each day, Gaza witnesses unimaginable destruction, and the...
Republican Donald Trump, who is running again for the White House, has strongly condemned the violence against Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh.
Army personnel have detained a local Juba Dal leader on charges of creating chaos during tender submission for Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital...
Rape is widespread in Sudan鈥檚 civil war, a United Nations investigation said Tuesday, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a 鈥榮taggering鈥� scale.
AN ALARMING increase in mob violence in two months is disconcerting, especially because a major policy focus of the interim government is to improve law and order and to restore public trust in law enforcement. In August鈥揝eptember, after the fall of the Awami League regime, as Ain O Salish Kendra says, at least 49 people were killed in mob violence. In the corresponding period in 2023, the number of mob violence deaths was 10...
AS THE euphoria surrounding Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 ouster to India slowly died down, we have slowly begun to excavate the wreckages of her authoritarian rule in our surroundings as well as our collective memories. If we look critically, the immediate past 鈥� the period immediately preceding her departure 鈥� appeared to be...
Incidents of mob violence are on the rise in the country with at least 49 people lynched in the past two months, according to the monthly report of human rights organistation Ain o Salish Kendra.
The police arrested five people over vandalising KSTC Diagnostic Centre and Hospital at Khagrachari town on October 1 during the sectarian violence between Bengalis and...
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France has expressed grave concern over mob violence and lynching incidents in Bangladesh following the recent political upheaval...
Two persons were arrested on Friday over the lynching of a national minority youth, Anik Kumar Chakma, during sectarian violence in Khagrachari and Rangamati districts under Chattogram Hill Tract region in Bangladesh on September 20.
Students for Sovereignty, a student organisation of Dhaka University, on Friday protested at spreading sectarian violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The Parbatya Charrogram Janasamhati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents of sectarian attacks in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 18鈥�20...
Citizens including writers, artists, teachers, journalists and rights activists in separate statements on Wednesday demanded fair investigation into recent violence that took place in Rangamati and Khagrachari districts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Two cases, one over the allegation of rape of a class VII student of Tripura community and the other for obstructing government officials in discharging their duties and assaulting them, were filed with Sadar police station in Khagrachari Tuesday night...