Narsingdi Station Incident: Woman who initiated attack on girl detained

Rab detained Shila Akhter alias Saima, who allegedly initiated the scuffle and assaulted a woman at Narsingdi Railway Station recently over her clothes. A team of Rab-11 detained her from Shibpur … Read More »

Monkeypox: Doctors concerned over impact on sexual health

Monkeypox could have a “massive impact” on access to sexual health services, doctors have warned. Staff at clinics are already having to isolate if they have come into contact with anyone … Read More »

2 sent to jail for raping woman, drugging her in-laws

A Rangpur court yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of raping a woman in front of her husband and drugging her in-laws in Rangpur’s Badarganj upazila. The accused — … Read More »

Bangladeshi woman gang-raped in India repatriated

An Indian court has sentenced seven Bangladeshis to life in prison for raping the young woman in Bengaluru last year India has handed over to Bangladesh a woman who was gang-raped … Read More »

Opinion: Bangabandhu’s 100th and National Children’s Day

March 17 is an important day for Bangladesh, especially this year. It’s the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as well as the National Children’s … Read More »

Locals protest after girls in Noakhali school asked not to use veil

Boys enterd the school using burqa on several occasions in the past, say headmaster and police.  Locals have protested against the order asking female students not to cover their faces inside … Read More »

GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS

Share-Net Bangladesh has opened this year’s application for the Young Researchers Fellowship Grant 2022! As part of the knowledge generation and capacity development initiative, each year SNBD provides two special grants … Read More »

Share-Net Bangladesh Mobile Application: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) at your fingertips!

EXCITING NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS! Share-Net Bangladesh has launched its new mobile application named as ‘Share-Net Bangladesh’ this week! To make the knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) more … Read More »

Op-Ed: End the pandemic of violence against women

This is an opinion editorial by Vandana Sharma, a global health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Isabela Salgado, a senior policy associate in the Crime, … Read More »

Implementing the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Bangladesh, in collaboration with the UN Women Bangladesh country office, published the National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2019-2022. … Read More »