Empowerment > Women's rights
By সেকালের যৌতুক একালের রোলেক্স
“মেয়ের বিয়ের যৌতুকের টাকা জোগাড় করতে বাবা-মার শেষ সম্বল বিক্রি করল” – গ্রামগঞ্জে ঘটে যাওয়া এমন সব কাহিনী আমাদের সবারই কমবেশি শোনা । এসব কাহিনিতে কখনওবা বাড়ি বন্ধক রেখে শ্বশুরবাড়িতে মেয়ের “ভরণ পোষণ” যোগান দেয় বাবা।
ছেলেবেলায় আমার একজন মাস্টার ছিলেন, যৌতুকের রঙ্গিন টিভি আর মটরসাইকেল পাননি বলে যিনি প্রতিদিন আক্ষেপ করতেন আর মনে মনে সিদ্ধান্ত নিতেন স্ত্রীকে বাপের-বাড়ি পাঠিয়ে জিনিসগুলো উশুল করবেন। একজন &lsqu...
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একজন একা মা কি করে বাঁচেন এই সমাজে?
অনেকদিন ধরেই ভাবছিলাম লিখবো একজন একা মায়ের টিকে থাকার লড়াইয়ের গল্প। বন্ধুদের অনেকেই বলতো, প্লিজ তুমি লেখো। তোমার লেখা পড়ে যারা লড়াইয়ে হার মানছে, তারা কিছুটা হলেও সাহস পাবে। অন্তত ভাবতে পারবে, এই লড়াইটা তার একারই নয় কেবল। এমন অনেক মা আছে, যারা নিত্যদিনই লড়াই চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে সমস্ত প্রতিকূলতার বিরুদ্ধে। কখনও বা জয়ী হচ্ছে, কখনও হার মানছে। জয়ের তালিকা যদিও খুব একটা বড় হয় না এসব মায়ের, তারপরও যতোটুকুই হয়, তার সব কৃতিত্ব কিন্তু মায়ের একারই। এখানে আর কারও ভাগ থাকে না। সেজন্য তৃপ্তির জায়গাটাও থাকে অক্ষত।
আমি তেমনই একজন মা। দুটি ছেলেমেয়ের মা। মেয়েটির বয়স ২১ বছর, পড়ছে ভা...
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By sadiatmannanPublished: 22 April, 2012
I am just a person who loves almost everything about women.
মর্যাদায় গড়ি সমতা - A National Campaign
A man being the bread-earner in a family is a common stereotype that prevails in our society. Due to this economic prowess of the man that is viewed by most, a woman’s contribution towards her family, the society and the nation is undervalued. This perpetuates the understanding that a man is superior to his counterpart and leads to numerous negative outcomes for women, along with being appointed to a lowered status that they do not deserve.
A person receiving 8 hours a day for the self may be considered to be ample, but not when she works for the rest of the per...
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The Avoidable Consequence
How many times have we heard someone say, “Oh, we didn’t really plan on our 3rd child” or “She was an accident?” Then you see the couple bring up their “blessing” so well and hear them say stories about how proud they are of their “mistake”. Unfortunately not all pregnancies turn out to have such happy endings. The outcomes of such accidents can range from sterile abortions by professionals to messy, illegal methods of termination, most do not even go past the 1st trimester.
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When Birth Control Goes Wrong
The prevalence of birth control products in Bangladesh especially among the upper classes might be considered to be a positive change in our overpopulated nation, however the lack of information and the frequent wrong application of such products is startling and terrifying. As a medical student, I often face strange cases in the emergency room. The worst kind is when young women come to the ER with incomplete abortions or who are so severely ill that their ill informed decision can mean a lifetime of suffering.
Many wome...
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Shahana Siddiqui's speech at the Digital Marketing Summit about Maya
Internet is now! That was the message at the Digital Marketing Summit 2012. Social media hasfundamentally changed the way we communicate. That’s what presenters kept stating, showing,explaining. Message heard loud and clear!
The Digital Marketing Summit was an excellent platform for communication and marketing teams ofdifferent leading organizations, corporations and even start ups to present the new and innovativeproducts and services they were offering and how they were marketing themselves in the new worldorder of social media and digital marketing. It was refreshing to ...
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TEDxDhaka: Ivy Huq Russell - Maya.com.bd
Ivy Huq Russell is the founder of Maya.com.bd, a web initiative dedicated to connect women in Bangladesh to useful information & each other. She believes connections empower people.
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WAEPA, Bangladesh celebrates International Women's Day
Women Architects Engineers Planners Association (WAEPA), Bangladesh celebrated International Women's Day with an informal gathering of architects, engineers and planners on March 10, according to a press release.
The venue was the conference room of Planner's Tower (Level 7), of Bir Uttam C.R. Datta Road, Dhaka.
The focus of the celebration was to give recognition and reception to three distinguished pioneering women graduates from the first batch of each of the disciplines of architecture, engineering and planning.
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By Aiding Bangladesh Women, CARE Cuts Child Hunger
Women's empowerment is a popular mantra in international-development circles, linked to the premise that the most effective way to help an overall society is to invest in women.
But what does women's empowerment mean? How is it defined? Can we measure it?
How do providers of humanitarian aid support women's-empowerment projects?
The antipoverty group CARE finds in a March 8 report that investments in Bangladeshi women's health and social mobility correlated to a 28-percent drop in childhood malnutrition.
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IWD 2012 vision video - AA Bangladesh
On the occasion of International Women's Day in 2012, girls from Bangladesh's rural areas state what they want to be in future. Day's slogan: ''Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures"
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