Ragging and Harassment
Ragging, Hazing, Fagging, Bullying, Pledging, Horse-playing etc. are different terms used in different parts of the world. A noticeable increase has been observed in ragging all over the world and especially in … Read More »
Menstrual Regulation and Abortion in Bangladesh
Menstrual regulation (MR) has been part of the Bangladesh family planning program since 1979. However, clandestine abortion remains a serious health problem in Bangladesh, and anecdotal reports indicate that clandestine use … Read More »
Bullying at School and Sexual Violence
School-based bullying attracts even less attention in developing Asia than sexual violence. The South Asian regional consultation report for the UN Study notes that though there is not much information on … Read More »
Reducing School Bullying: Key Variables
Due to several extreme cases of violence in schools, school bullying has received extensive media coverage in Bangladesh . However, school bullying remains an understudied subject in most Asian countries including … Read More »
Experience of Bullying: Secondary School Students
Bullying among middle-school youth and adolescents has become a serious problem now-a-days. Verbal bullying occurs more common among females and physical bullying is more common in males. Male pupils sometimes described bullying … Read More »
Bullying at High Schools: Scenario of Dhaka City
Among the high school children, incidence of bullying is very common. According to this paper, there are seven forms of bullying such as verbal, emotional, exclusion, physical, sexual, cyber, and race, to … Read More »
Impact of Cyber Bullying on Adolescents
Internet has made our lives much easier and it has major advantages. However where there is advantages, there must be disadvantages too. In Bangladesh; with the increasing use of internet, cyber … Read More »
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Bangladesh
The cultural taboo around sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescent girls, leads them to often enter their reproductive years poorly informed about SRH issues, without adequate access to SRH-related information or … Read More »
Domestic violence among South Asians in USA
Among the South Asian community in the United States, domestic violence is a prevalent problem of significant magnitude. Although the community thoroughly denies the existence of this atrocity, women have been … Read More »
Dowry and Spousal Physical Violence Against Women in Bangladesh
In rural areas, the absence of dowry demand in marriage lowers the likelihood of physical abuse to wife. Generally dowry demand predicts the extent, frequency, and severity of physical wife abuse … Read More »