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A crisis is quietly unfolding in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, where long-running mountain streams are drying slowly but inexorably, pushing Indigenous communities deeper into precarity. This is not ...
A college professor in Bangladesh ... that Islamists were using their increased visibility since last year's popular protests to create an environment of fear so that women were confined to ...
Bangladesh's influential Islamist coalition has demanded the abolition of a government Women's Commission, a further indication of how hardline, religiously fuelled activism is strengthening after ...
The Women's Affairs Reform Commission in Bangladesh has submitted its report to Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. The report highlights key recommendations for improving the welfare and rights of ...
Bangladesh commenced their ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2025 campaign with a commanding 178-run victory over Thailand on April 10, 2025. The match, held at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium ...
By: Samata Biswas, The Sanskrit College and University. Women in Bangladesh have been hitting the streets, protesting an increasing number of instances of rape and violence against women across the ...
Bangladesh recently saw several incidents of rapes and attack on women on the street. In one such incident, two women were assaulted in the capital ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for ...
So where does this leave us, and in particular around gender given the approach of International Women’s Day ... achievements but use them to fuel our own ambitions. Happy IWD!
Islamist radicals, long considered a fringe group in Bangladesh, managed to stop two women’s football friendly matches in the north of the country in late January, raising fears of increasing ...
Successive governments in Bangladesh have allowed harsh, discriminatory personal laws to persist. After a year of interviews, Aruna Kashyap finds women trapped in abusive marriages or propelled into ...
Bangladesh women are inching closer towards direct qualification for the ICC Women's ODI World Cup 2025 in India as they registered their maiden win in the format against the West Indies in ...