Tag: Bangladesh

To prepare for the Special Rapporteur’s visit to Bangladesh, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR) is calling for Written Submissions seeking input from civil society, human rights organizations and other interested stakeholders regarding Human Trafficking. From October 31 to November 9, 2022, Ms. Siobhán Mullally, the Special Rapporteur of […]

Worldwide, young women and girls with disabilities face up to 10 times more violence than women and girls without disabilities, and Bangladesh is no exception. In Bangladesh, young women with disabilities are at a high risk of experiencing gender-based and other forms of violence due to social exclusion, limited mobility, lack of support structures, communication […]

Reports of classrooms empty of girls in the ninth and tenth grades are coming from all over Bangladesh. This is an opinion piece authored by Shaheen Anam, Executive Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF). Shorolika Parveen from Kurigram dreamt of playing in the national football team someday and had even received a best player award […]

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bangladesh Women Judges Association (BWJA) to address and redress violence against women (VAW) during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, reports UNB (United News of Bangladesh). Van Nguyen, deputy resident representative of UNDP Bangladesh, and Hosneara Begum, president of BWJA, signed […]