Women’s Safety
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Stories about Women’s Safety
Five Bangladesh Universities Move to Strengthen Protection Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
A new initiative is seeking to strengthen how universities in Bangladesh prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence, with a particular focus on safer and more inclusive campuses for women and other members of university communities.
Mariam Became a Public Scandal Before She Became a Public Safety Question
Nineteen-year-old Mariam Khatun spent months being discussed as a powerful MP’s “second wife” after private footage went viral. After her death and an ongoing abetment investigation, Bangladesh should examine a harder question: when a young woman is caught inside a relationship with a far more powerful man, who asks what she wants, whether she feels safe and whether she can speak freely
A Survivor Should Not Need a Map of Institutions to Find Safety
Bangladesh has laws, legal aid, police units, crisis centres and shelters for survivors of abuse. Yet a Dhaka dialogue heard that women and children are still being sent from one institution to another—and that shelter capacity remains severely inadequate.
Murders and Gang Rapes of Women and Children Rose in August, Rights Monitor Warns
A human-rights monitor recorded a sharp rise in some of the most severe forms of violence against women and children in Bangladesh in August, including 91 murders and 12 gang rapes. The figures come from rights-group monitoring rather than a complete national crime database, but the month-to-month increase has raised fresh concerns over safety and accountability.
Stopping Violence Against Women Requires Men to Challenge Other Men
Bangladesh’s violence-against-women crisis cannot be addressed only by asking women to protect themselves. Families, schools and communities also need men and boys to challenge harassment, control and violence among their peers.
Women-Only Buses Cannot Be the Final Answer to Women’s Unsafe Commutes
Bangladesh’s new Pink Bus service has revived an older debate: should women need separate transport to feel safe, or should every bus become safe enough for them to use without fear?
From Marriage Promise to Trafficking Trap: How Bangladeshi Women Are Being Taken to China
From Marriage Promise to Trafficking Trap: How Bangladeshi Women Are Being Taken to China