Tag - Bangladesh
Kamilat Mehdi, a twenty one year old girl has been stalked by a person in Eithiopia. While she was on her way back home, the person came from the shadows and threw sulphuric acid on her face. Not only the acid distorted her face but it also disfigured...
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Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Britain, Uganda, Acid Attacks, Dr Elaine Rocha, Kamilat Mehdi, Eithiopia, British Charity Women At Risk, Politics & Society
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.
In South Asian countries, the culture of patriarchy is deeply...
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Domestic Violence, South Asia, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Bangladesh, Politics & Society
As we are still hankering for women's reservation bill, recent statistics postulates that India does not fare as good as its neighbors in South Asia in women's representation in the national legislatures especially with Pakistan and Bangladesh....
A famous line goes, life is beautiful provided you accept it as it comes to you but unfortunately, this line holds no importance to the women folk in Afghanistan.
Recently, a case has come up where a 13-year-old girl has tried to burn herself in...
While addressing the third Asian Women Entrepreneur Eid Fair, Commerce and Water Resource Minister, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed asserted that women entrepreneurs play a very important part in the financial growth of the country.
Representatives from Pakistan,..
The government of Bangladesh has proposed an amendment in their law according to which jail officials would be entitled to release the women convicts on parole.
If the released convicts were found violating the conditions for parole, they would again.
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