Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Today, 9th December 2010, is Begum Rokeya Day We have come a long way since Begum Rokeya chaired the Bengal Women’s Education Conference in 1926, in Kolkata (Calcutta). She began by speaking in her … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed After more than two decades of fierce struggles by leaders and activists belonging to the women’s movement, the notion of `eve teasing’ was finally banished to the dustbin where it belonged. The High Court … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed While working on last week’s column, `The Nation, or Chhatra League…?’ (published on Monday, April 12, 2010), I had been in two minds. Should I include sexual offences—aggressive behaviour, molestation, physical assault, violence, rape, asking a buddy … Continue reading
HC judgments on sexual harassment rahnuma ahmed The High Court’s verdict was a `revolution’ said Salma Ali, president of Bangladesh Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity (BNWLA) In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the BNWLA, the High Court … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews ] by rahnuma ahmed `You should not have written about such sensitive issues in such indecorous language,’ faculty members at Jahangirnagar University (JU) told me and my ex-colleague, Manosh Chowdhury. It was 1997, four years before I … Continue reading
