Tag: Gender Based Violence

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 […]

This is an excellent opinion piece authored by Uchacha-A Chak. She is a researcher, activist, and a member of Lokayoto Bidyaloy. Violence against women is normalised in our societies to such an extent that it is almost invisible, like the air we breathe. Neither the perpetrators nor the systems that permit and breed violence against […]

This is an opinion piece by Parvez Uddin Chowdhury, a humanitarian worker and independent researcher published on the Daily Prothom Alo on 1st December 2021. Have you ever wondered what happens to women and girls when a society or community is forcibly displaced and becomes refugees in another country? We all know about the kind […]

Just as people’s online activities have increased in the country, so has abuse and violence against women in the cyber world. Over 50 per cent of women who use the internet are victims of online violence. Demands have been voiced for a quicker and easier way to get a resolution to the problem. The issue […]

A year ago, the youth-led platform Beyond Candid was formed with the intention of bringing stories about social injustices and gender-based violence to the forefront through candid lenses. For Co-Founder Masud Parvez, the platform is a means of getting to his dream of building a better tomorrow while ensuring a safer world for future generations. […]