Speakers at a roundtable here have stressed for ensuring women rights to gender and reproductive health, eradicating violence and repression for flourishing women leadership in building a developed nation.
They said the rate of maternal, neonatal, child deaths and sexually transmitted diseases could be reduced through properly educating and awakening the adolescents on reproductive health and other related issues since their physical change begins.NGO ‘Pollisree’ organised the roundtable on ‘Women rights to gender, reproductive health’ under its ‘Social initiative for flourishing women leadership and empowerment’ project with assistance of Oxfam
Novib at Kawnia upazila parishad auditorium Tuesday.Members of the Upazila Changemaker Committee, physicians, public representatives, NGO workers, civil society members, adolescents, women community leaders and activists, lawyers, journalists and local elite participated.With Kawnia Upazila Nirbahi Officer(UNO) Abdul Motaleb Sarker in the chair, upazila vice-chairmen Selina Talukder Sheuly and Rafikul Islam attended the roundtable as the guests of honour.Medical Officer Dr Keya Rani, Upazila Women Affairs Officer Rebecca Yasmin, Balapara union chairman Nurul Haque, Kawnia Press Club President Mizanur Rahman Mitul, union member Tobarak Ali, addressed. Project Coordinator of Rangpur unit of ‘Pollisree’ Shahnaz Parveen, its Accounts Officer Taskina Sarker, Filed Trainer Kamrunnahar and women leader Shamsunnahar, also addressed the programme.
The speakers narrated role of gender, gender discrimination, reproductive health, domestic violence, economic empowerment of women,change-maker concept, developing women leadership, market management in the roundtable.They said safe motherhood and adoption of family planning methods
could be ensured and diseases like non-fertility at premature age, malnutrition of pregnant women could be avoided through proper knowledge on reproductive heath.Medical Officer Dr Keya Rani narrated different aspects of reproductive health, female education, child marriage, human trafficking, repression, safer sex, STDs, premature pregnancy,complicacy during pregnancy, safe delivery and motherhood etc.Upazila vice-chairman Selina Talukder Sheuly stressed for bringing a change in the social mindset to ensure female education and ending violence and repression for speeding up women empowerment at all levels for national development. -BSS, Rangpur
