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Gender inequality has been improving a lot in Bangladesh, inequalities in areas such as education and employment remain ongoing problems so women have little political freedom. In 2015, Bangladesh was ranked 139 out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index [1] and 47 out 144 countries surveyed on the Gender Inequality Index in 2017.
AIDMAM presented testimonies of gender and caste-based violence at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018. [52] The report, called Voices Against Caste Impunity: Narratives of Dalit Women in India and presented to the United Nations (UN), was the first report on caste-based violence against women to be given to the ...
In 2010, Bangladesh enacted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2010. [24] Domestic violence (DV) is accepted by a significant percentage of the population: in the 2011 DHS survey , 32.5% of women said that a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife for specific reasons (the most common reason given was if the wife ...
The office of the United Nations Secretary General has said the violence in Bangladesh should be "tamped down", adding it stands against any "racially based attacks" or "racially based incitement ...
Even the low-caste jolhas (weavers) had improved their social standing since 1971. Although several hierarchically arranged families such as the syeds, or sayeds (noble born) and the sheikhs, or shaykhs (also noble born), were noticeable in Bangladesh Muslim society, there were no impenetrable hereditary social distinctions. Rather, fairly ...
When a mass uprising forced Bangladesh’s longtime prime minister to step down and flee the country last week, a 65-year-old retired auditor who had worked for her political party feared for his ...
Feminism in Bangladesh seeks equal rights of women in Bangladesh through social and political change. Article 28 of Bangladesh constitution states that "Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life". [1] Sculpture of Begum Rokeya at Burdhwan House, Bangla Academy. She was a pioneer of women's liberation ...
Violence also saw an uptick in the 1950s and 1960s in what had then become East Pakistan (present-day-Bangladesh), leading to large numbers of upper caste Bengali Hindus migrating to West Bengal, Assam and Tripura with official Indian government records indicating 2,519,557 (Hindu) refugees crossed into India from East Bengal between 1941 and 1951.