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Allocations for gender budget, women-children affairs drop

An allocation of Tk 2,60,767 crore has been proposed for the gender-relevant budget and Tk 5,078 crore for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in the financial year 2025–2026, both marking a decrease from the FY 2024-25...

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Legal protection of domestic workers is a must

DOMESTIC workers, mostly women and children, continue to work without any legal and policy protection in Bangladesh. A 12-year-old who was allegedly raped by her employer and is currently being treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital brings to light the issue of a legally unprotected workplace for domestic workers. This is, however, not an isolated incident. In...

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21 sued for beating girls on launch in Munshiganj

The police on Sunday filed a case against 21 people with Munshiganj Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act allegedly for beating two girls in a launch anchored at Munshiganj launch terminal on Friday...

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Four charged with Magura girl rape, murder

The Magura Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Wednesday framed charges against four individuals accused of the death of an 8-year-old girl after rape in the district in early March this year...

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Trial for rape, withdrawal of case against students sought

Speakers, including academics, rights activists, labour leaders and cultural activists on Saturday demanded the government take effective steps to ensure security of women and children, trial for rape and withdrawal of a case filed against left student leaders...

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Rights bodies for widening rape definition

The Rape Law Reform Coalition, a combine of 17 legal and rights organisations, on Wednesday suggested that amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000 should introduce a broader legal definition of rape to include all individuals to curb incidents of rape and violence against women...

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Layered approach needed to head off economic violence

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..

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HC bans PP from courts for defaming magistrate

The High Court on Tuesday banned a government law officer from appearing in courts for 20 days for making contemptuous remarks on social media against a judicial officer following an altercation in courtroom...

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Sexual harassment cases must be resolved early

SURVIVORS of sexual harassment on the University of Dhaka campus during Pahela Boishakh celebrations in 2016 still await justice as the case remains stuck in legal bureaucracy. On January 31, a Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal had to...

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Court finds no flaws in probe

A Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal said that multiple investigation agencies properly and extensively investigated the case filed on the charges of rape and murder of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia...