A female student of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia has been missing for four days.The victim was identified as Smrity Khatun, 25, a third year student of English Department and daughter of Anowar Hossain of Mokumpur village in Kushtia district.
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Cam girls: Inside Romania’s sexscam industry
Interactive webcamming is the fastest-growing sector of the global pornography business. In Romania, thousands of women work as “cam-girls” from studios and from home. It is a 24/7 market, the majority of clients logging in from North America and Western…
Iran’s Rouhani nominates female vice presidents
Iran President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three women as vice-presidents and one as a civil rights assistant following criticism of his all-male cabinet. Iran’s 12 vice-presidents run organisations linked to the presidency. There has been only one female cabinet member…
Bogra rape victim taken to Rajshahi safe home
Dhaka, Aug 8 – The female student who was reportedly raped by Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar was taken from Bogra to a safe home and her mother to a support centre in Rajshahi on Monday night.
Police to examine Rubi’s claim Salman Shah was killed
Dhaka – Police will examine the claims of Rabeya Sultana alias Rubi, a beautician, that Salman Shah, the popular movie hero did not die, rather he was killed, said concerned police officials.
Barisal doctor sued for ‘rape attempt’ on female patient
Dhaka, Aug 6– A case was filed with a local court in Barisal on Sunday against a physician on the charge of trying to rape a female patient.
Bogra rape: Tufan, Rumki sent to jail
Dhaka, Aug 6 – A court in Bogra on Sunday sent Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar and Bogra municipality female councillor Marzia Hasan Rumki to jail over the shaving of the heads of a female student and her mother after…
Gender equality? It’s still a man’s world
By Anna Shen San Francisco, California, Aug 3 (IPS) – Gender inequality is the greatest moral and social issue of our time — and the world’s most critical economic challenge. If half of the global population cannot fulfil their human…
Bogra rape accused Tufan-Rumki remanded again
A court here on Friday placed Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar and Bogra municipality female councillor Marzia Hasan Rumki on a two-day fresh remand over the shaving of the heads of a female student and her mother after the rape…
Youth are at forefront of the digital economy, says ITU
Geneva, 3 Aug (Kanaga Raja) – Some 830 million young people, representing more than 80 per cent of the youth population (aged 15-24 years), are online in 104 countries, according to new data released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
HR body chief blames culture of imputiny for rise in rape incidents
Expressing concern over the growing incidents of rape in the country, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque on Thursday attributed such hatred acts to social instability and the culture of impunity.“It’s necessary to immediately arrest the accused,…
Gender pay gap in Europe
by Alexandra Scheele Though the two principles “equal pay for equal work” and “equal pay for work of equal value” have been legally fixed with the European Treaty of Rome 1957 as well as with the subsequent Equal Pay Directive…
340 children raped in BD in six months – report
A total of 340 children, including 24 physically challenged ones, were violated in the country in the last seven months of the current year, according to statistics of Child Rights Advocacy Coalition in Bangladesh.Of them, some 46 fell victims to…
Jordan: Seize Opportunity to End Impunity for Rape
Jordanian lawmakers will decide on August 1, 2017, whether to remove or amend an infamous provision in the country’s 1960 penal code that allows people who commit sexual assault to avoid punishment if they marry their victims, Human Rights Watch…
Women and children for sale for sex, slavery, organs…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Jul 28 (IPS) – It is happening now. Millions of humans are forced to flee armed conflicts, climate change, inequalities, and extreme poverty. They fall easy prey to traffickers lurking anyone who can be subjected to…
UK broadcaster defends plan to air Princess Diana recordings
A British broadcaster is defending its decision to broadcast recordings of Princess Diana candidly discussing her personal life after some royal watchers called it a betrayal of the late princess’ privacy.Channel 4 says the video tapes, made in the early…
Rumki among five remended for torture on girl, her mother
A court here on Monday placed five people, including a female councillor of Bogra municipality, on different terms of remand in two cases filed for shaving the heads of a female student along with her mother after the rape of…
Women held with huge quantity of Phensidyl in Rajshahi
Rajshahi – Police have detained a woman-druggist with huge phensidyl in Rajshahi on Thursday. The detained Laila Begum has been doing this drug business for many years.
Hillary Clinton’s new book calling – What has happened
Hillary Clinton is calling her new book “What Happened” and promising unprecedented candour as she remembers her stunning defeat last year to Donald Trump. “In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be…
Pakistan arrests head of village council over girl’s rape
Multan, Jul 27 (AP/UNB) — A police spokeswoman says officers have arrested the head of a village council for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a teenage girl in central Pakistan.
The extraordinary life of a 91-year-old beauty queen
Krystyna Farley is a 91-year-old beauty pageant queen in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous. Although she grew up in a loving home in rural Poland, her childhood was cut short by the…
Harmful surgery on intersex children unnecessary
Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said in a report released today. Despite decades of controversy over the procedures, doctors operate on…
BD civil surgeon summoned over faulty caesarean section
The High Court on Sunday summoned three people, including the Civil Surgeon of Patuakhali, to appear before it on August 1 to explain the incident of leaving a surgical instrument inside the abdomen of a woman during a cesarian operation.…
Saudi women arrested for wearing mini scart in public freed
A woman named Khulood was interrogated yesterday in Riyadh and handed over for prosecution. Her transgression? Wearing “indecent” clothing. But the same night, Saudi authorities released her without charge. A brief Snapchat video of Khulood appeared over the weekend with…
Man who raped daughter awarded 30 years in jail
A court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping his 14-year old daughter in Sadar upazila.The convicted man was identified as Hanif Uddin, 42, son of late Abdul Khaleq, resident of Dhopaghat Hodipara village in…
Childhood should be time of innocence
Childhood should be a time of innocence, play, and learning. But 15-year-old Subekti spent his shackled to the floor of his family’s house in Serang, a city about a three-hour drive from Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.For the past six years, since…
Halting sexual exploitation of children in tourism
By Baher Kamal Rome, Jul 18 (IPS) – While the business sector jumps for joy as the number of tourists grew in 2016 for the seventh consecutive year to reach 1.2 billion, and as the first four months of 2017…
Housewife convicted for torturing domestic help
Dhaka – The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 of Dhaka yesterday sentenced a housewife to life term imprisonment in a case filed for torturing an 11-year- old domestic help and dumping her into a dustbin assuming her dead in…
Restricting women’s clothing and freedom in Belgium
The European Court of Human Rights has struck another blow to women’s autonomy, ruling in favor of bans on full-face veils enacted in 2011 in Belgium.Echoing a 2014 ruling in S.A.S v. France, the court cited the vague idea of…
Graft case against Tarique’s Mom-in-Law scrapped
Dhaka – A three-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday scrapped the trial proceedings of a graft case against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman’s mother-in- law Syeda Iqbal…