Implement Women Dev Policy
Karmojibi Nari, an organisation of women workers, demanded immediate implementation of National Women Development Policy 2011 to enable women to realise their rights.
At a press briefing at its office at Shegunbagicha in the city yesterday, the organisation leaders said the policy would pave the way for women to enjoy their rights by scrapping social discrimination and patriarchal mindset.
Fundamentalism is the key enemy of women and a “communal” group is trying to portray the policy as anti-Islamic, meaning against the Quran and Sunnah, said the organisation's President Shirin Akhter.
“Whereas there is nothing in the policy that goes against the Quran and Sunnah,” she said, adding that they are practically battling fundamentalists.
Shirin also said the country's women are in such a position that they are not able to enjoy their laboured earnings and hardly get the just share of their father's property, that Muslim law promotes.
Drawing an example of micro-credit, the organisation member Rahela Rabbani said it is women who take micro-credits but many cases revealed that their husbands were utilising the money, unduly resulting in the debt's burden falling on women.
The policy is a realistic guideline and it is important to formulate laws on its basis for its proper implementation, they said
The policy categorically highlights issues like education, power, leadership, rights and partnership that would help women move forward, said speakers.
The organisation's Executive Director Rokeya Rafique, General Secretary Sharmin Kabir and Director Mahmuda Imam also spoke.
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