Dhaka, May 30 (IANS) Women in Bangladesh have faced mounting social, cultural and political resistance against them amid rising visibility, reflecting a troubling backlash fuelled by the active resurgence of extremist sentiments, a report has stated.Citing Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) data, Bangladeshi media outlet ‘New Age’ reported that nearly 76 per cent of women across the country experience violence at some stage in their lives.It added th…
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Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) Pakistan’s sanitation workers endure hardship driven by entrenched caste hierarchies, discriminatory hiring, absence of legal protections, institutional neglect, social stigma, gendered exploitation, and economic injustice. Their suffering is deeply embedded in the fabric of the state and society, rendering it largely invisible, a report said on Tuesday. According to a report in the European Times, with their labour sustaining cities, preventing disease, and upholdin…
Alwar, Feb 8 (IANS) A disturbing case of suspected female infanticide has surfaced in Rajasthan’s Alwar district after police recovered the foetus of an eight-month-old baby girl from a plastic bundle on Sunday, triggering outrage and raising concerns over social awareness and police response. The incident came to light after a bundle wrapped in a salwar and polythene was discovered lying in bushes located between Baroli and Nyana villages in the Govindgarh area.The bundle had reportedly been sp…
Dhaka, Feb 3 (IANS) Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Shafiqur Rahman’s recent social media remarks equating women’s work outside the home with prostitution are not merely a conservative stance but dehumanising, reducing teachers, garment workers, doctors, nurses, journalists, police officers and civil servants to a single degrading label, a report said on Tuesday. According to a report in ‘Time of Bangladesh’, in a country where women are from the numerical majority rather than a marginal m…