Action against online harassment of women, children demanded
Harassment of women and children and fraud and blackmail on social media and different online platforms were becoming a rising concern, speakers said at a workshop in Rajshahi on Saturday.
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Allocations for gender budget, women-children affairs drop
An allocation of Tk聽2,60,767 crore has been proposed for the gender-relevant budget and Tk聽5,078 crore for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in the financial year 2025鈥�2026, both marking a decrease from the FY 2024-25...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Suspended SP assaults journalists on Natore court premises
Suspended superintendent of police SM Fazlul Haque assaulted several video journalists on the premises of a Natore court on Tuesday...
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..
Women, children comprise majority of Gaza war dead: probe
The UN on Friday condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 per cent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.
Two arrested over rape of Marma girl in Bandarban
Two men were arrested early Friday in a case filed over raping a 15-year-old girl from the Marma community of Baishari union under Naikhyangchari upazila in...
Ex-minister Narayan sued for abduction
A case was filed recently against former land minister Narayan Chandra Chanda for abducting two women in Khulna...
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...
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...
Sexual assault survivors see no end in 9 yrs鈥� wait for justice
The survivors of sexual assault during the Pahela Baishaikh celebration on the Dhaka University Campus nine years ago still wait for justice as the case against a lone accused over the sexual assault remains pending with...
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...
