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For women in Asia, ‘Home’ is a battleground

Nearly half of the four billion people who reside in the Asia-Pacific region are women. They comprise two-thirds of the region’s poor, with millions either confined to their homes or pushed into the informal labour market where they work without any safeguards for paltry daily wages. Millions more become victims of trafficking and are forced into prostitution or sexual slavery. women in BangladeshOthers find themselves battling an enemy much closer to home; in fact, for many women the greatest threat is inside the home it...

4 ways to successfully implement gender programs

[caption id="attachment_13379" align="alignleft" width="300"]gender A young woman from a village that is known for high levels of women trafficking to other major cities in India. How can development organizations deal with the challenges of running gender programs? Photo by: Anindit Roy-Chowdhury / U.N. Women / CC BY-NC-ND[/caption] That’s a tricky question that often comes up when organizations for instance need to include provisions for gender equality in their project proposals, especially since more and more donors are now insisting that gender be int...

UN Volunteers at Dhaka to curb gender based violence

The 16 days of activism campaign is a global initiative to raise awareness and combat all forms of gender based violence. The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme joined the 2014 campaign in Bangladesh and decided to focus on an issue often raised during discussions with Bangladeshi citizens: gender and public transportation. [caption id="attachment_11379" align="alignleft" width="300"]Bangladesh_2014_UNV_and_Gender_and_public_transportation_1 UN Vo...

Bangladeshi student raped in India

A Bangladeshi girl studying here was allegedly raped by her local guardian, who has been arrested by the police.  Birbhum Police Superintendent Alok Rajoria said today that the man, who had allegedly raped the girl, was himself from Bangladesh. rapeThe girl in her complaint to the police said that she was being blackmailed by the man, who had taken her photographs. The man was arrested from here last night on the basis of the complaint lodged at Bolpur Police Station by the student yesterday, he said. The girl was a residential student, while th...

‘No’ to violence against women

Gender-based violence can take many forms and have different names. Rape, domestic violence, female genital cutting, sex selection, child marriage, sexual harassment, trafficking—the commonality here is that the impact extends far beyond the individual. This is not a woman’s problem; it is a societal and a human rights problem, with a multiplier effect on economies, communities and nations that is truly overwhelming. It ruins lives, costs billions of dollars, and is a grave threat to public health. stop_women_abuseWe can hopefu...

Women on the edge of land and life

November is the cruelest month for landless families in the Indian Sundarbans, the largest single block of tidal mangrove forest in the world lying primarily in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. There is little agricultural wage-work to be found, and the village moneylender’s loan remains unpaid, its interest mounting. The paddy harvest is a month away, pushing rice prices to an annual high. sundarbansFor those like Namita Bera, tasked with procuring 120 kg of rice per month to feed her eight-member family, there is seldom any p...
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