Women rights
Why the reluctance to fund women's businesses?
SME loans to women entrepreneurs should be made easy to obtain
Relationship Matters: Setting Friendship Goals
Our relationships and how we navigate them keep evolving with the times. Often, we find questions or worries so personal that they can only be shared with a stranger, but any random stranger is no real solace! Nor is the advice safe. With that in mind, Star Lifestyle brings to you a brand-new relationship advice column from certified experts. This hopes to tackle the host of worries, questions and forks in roads of the relationships plane that includes the personal, professional to psychological. Read on for insights, and shoot us your concerns, even anonymously at [email protected], or send us a message on Star Lifestyle's Facebook page.
Relationship Matters: Setting Professional Boundaries
Our relationships and how we navigate them keep evolving with the times. Often, we find questions or worries so personal that they can only be shared with a stranger, but any random stranger is no real solace! Nor is the advice safe. With that in mind, Star Lifestyle brings to you a brand-new relationship advice column from certified experts. This hopes to tackle the host of worries, questions and forks in roads of the relationships plane that includes the personal, professional to psychological. Read on for insights, and shoot us your concerns, even anonymously at [email protected], or send us a message on Star Lifestyle's Facebook page.
Revisiting the Narsingdi assault
On 18 May, 2022. A young woman was physically assaulted for her attire at the Narsingdi station while on her way to Dhaka to sit for an exam.
Withdraw time bar on Pahela Baishakh celebrations: Rights body
After coming down heavily on the government instruction to finish all celebration programmes of Pahela Baishakh at open places by 5:00pm, a women rights body demands withdrawal of such restriction.
Once upon a time in Afghanistan…
Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.
INTERNATIONAL CEDAW DAY 2015 / Withdrawal of reservation
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in December 1979 as a bill of rights for women. Till date, it has been ratified by 188 countries of the world.
Towards a consensus on Bangladesh priorities
There are nearly as many different opinions about what Bangladesh should focus on to achieve middle-income status as there are Bangladeshis.
Gallant fight to win back husband
A young woman in Mymensingh stages hunger strike to win back her husband who refused to accept her as wife even after one and half years of their marriage.
BNP apologises to women
BNP apologises to the country’s women over sexual assault on some women by rowdy men during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University campuses.
Rural women's double jeopardy
JUST how vulnerable the village women are to harassment, coercion and graft while seeking justice or claiming other entitlements has been brought to bold relief by a TIB study.
#SheForHe
THE International Woman's Day comes every year with new campaigns, new tag lines, new slogans and newer pledges. Every year, there seems to be more men endorsing women's rights.
Feminist solidarity in neoliberal times
ANOTHER International Women's Day has come and gone. This year, my Facebook feed was jammed with passionate debates on the merits of the BBC documentary 'India's Daughters.'
Hindu women's divorce rights
Divorce is a procedure whereby the married couple decides to separate and break all the vows that were taken during the sacred ceremony of a marriage. In Bangladesh the Hindu women are suffering greatly to seek divorce or to demand compensation from husbands.
