Women played a crucial role in the recent protests that led to the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government in Bangladesh. Their active participation signifies a shift in the country's gender dynamics, with ...

Zobaida Nasreen said that “those who served on the [women’s affairs] committee are now being openly threatened and defamed, ...

According to Bangladeshi media reports, they assaulted at least 10 people, including two women, in the Gulistan ... BNP activists, working alongside students, raided multiple hotels and searched ...

Catholic bishops have verbally agreed to form the team led by the Women Desk of the Catholic Bishops ... not receive social security support at work. The study covered 1,507 women from different areas ...

the help desk model would be self-sustaining with the engaged participation of journalist associations. This would secure a safer, more supportive, and more effective working culture for journalists, ...

More than 20,000 followers of the group rallied near the Dhaka University, some carrying banners and placards reading “Say no to Western laws on our women, rise up Bangladesh.” The group ...

But this time her child survived -- something she credits to Nargis Akhter, one of the thousands of Bangladeshi women working as "skilled birth attendants" to help mothers through delivery.

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 ...