Nilima Jahan

Around 114 women were raped in the first three months of 2024, said  Ain O Salish Kendra yesterday. Three victims were killed and one died by suicide after rape, the human rights organisation added.

At least 41.6 percent of young women in Bangladesh were married before they had turned 18, reveals the latest government survey.

Despite the Dowry Prohibition Act-2018 being in force, the demands for dowries are still prevalent in many communities, leaving newlywed women and their families reeling under undue financial pressure.

After enduring six pregnancies so far in her 13-year-long marriage, 36-year-old Rokeya Begum, a resident of Korail slum, is now a mother of three children, the youngest being two years old.

Despite the government’s continuous efforts to eliminate child labour by 2025 and ensure universal access to primary and secondary education by 2030, recent data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics paints a concerning picture.

When 24-year-old Mithila Islam, mother of a nine-month-old, discovered she was pregnant again, she was already 10 weeks into conception.

Twelve-year-old Yamin Sheikh was born with a heart defect that has only worsened over time. His father Md Motiar Rahman Sheikh, a landless day labourer from Bagerhat, could not afford proper treatment for his little one.

Karima Begum found herself in a challenging situation when her husband returned home.

Two people, including a local AL leader, were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a woman and her minor daughter in Char Wapda union of Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila early Tuesday.

Before she was raped, Joba (not her real name) lived the life of a regular homemaker and bore the identity of a wife, a mother and a woman of her own volition.

In a rather grim development, the child mortality rate in Bangladesh saw a rise in 2022 compared to the previous four years, as per the latest data available.

In a city where one rarely comes across women-friendly public transportation and harassment is a common phenomenon, a coach reserved for female commuters in the country’s first-ever metro rail came as a blessing.

With the harvesting of Aman crops, the prices of BR-28, Paijam, Guti and aromatic rice were supposed to decrease. Instead, the rice prices have gone up by Tk 2-8 per kg in the last 10 days in Dhaka’s kitchen markets.

Sukanta Roy was 19 when he first got the chance to vote in 2014.

Many women questioned how a well-known parlour could breach the privacy of its patrons

Over 30,000 babies are born annually in the country with congenital heart defects, with only 3,000 of them having access to surgeries, according to Bangladesh Journal of Cardiac and Thoracic Anaesthesiology, 2023.

In 2006, recognising the flaws in existing laws for compensating victims of violent crime, the law commission proposed the Crime Victims Compensation Act, requiring the creation of a district-specific fund for victims of specified offences, including rape, to ensure compensation as a guaranteed right.

Despite being of school-going age, 12-year-old Sayem and his siblings -- Siam, 8, and Sadia, 6 -- are out of school at present.

In Bangladesh, media reports indicate a threefold increase in child deaths due to drowning, which is recognised as a leading cause of mortality among children under five in rural areas.

As a mother, I believe that children should never die before their parents.