Five held for raping girl on stranded vessel
Coast Guard members yesterday rescued a girl from a stranded vessel and arrested five youths on charge of gang-raping the girl in Bhola’s Charfesson upazila. The arrestees are Yusuf Hasan Sardar, … Read More »
Female Genital Mutilation costs $1.4 billion annually: UN health agency
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) poses serious risks to the health and well-being of women and girls, but it also exacts a crippling economic toll, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). New modelling by the UN agency to coincide with the … Read More »
“Youth must prepare themselves as leaders,” says Dr Md Murad Hasan, MP
In the light of the 2030 Global Agenda, Right Here Right Now (RHRN) organised the ‘National Young SRHR Leaders Summit 2020’, where young engaging leaders participated from all over Bangladesh to … Read More »
Calls for ‘virginity repair’ surgery to be banned
Campaigners are urging the government to outlaw “virginity repair” surgery. Many Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases killed, if their spouses or families discover they have had sex … Read More »
‘Ban gender detection of unborn babies’
A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to prohibit the gender detection of unborn babies, in order to … Read More »
Rape victim’s family says they are being threatened
Family members of a 15-year-old girl, who was gang-raped by four youths on January 15 in Gazipur, alleged that they were being threatened by relatives of the accused, who are her … Read More »
13 Rohingya women rescued in capital
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday rescued 13 Rohingya women from a house in the capital’s Aftabnagar. A human trafficking gang had holed them up there for seven months with plans to … Read More »
Time to do away with character evidence
BLAST report on rape victims calls for scrapping of related provision At the Court Street yesterday, a heavily pregnant 17-year-old waddled about from one lawyers’ chamber to another, looking for someone … Read More »
Rape, Violence against Women: Form commission within 30 days
HC directs govt; asks why no death penalty for rape of children under 16 The High Court yesterday directed the government to form a commission within 30 days under the law … Read More »
Most women do not regret having an abortion, study finds
An overwhelming majority of women who get an abortion do not regret the decision to undergo the procedure, according to a new study published in the academic journal Social Science & … Read More »