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  Paintings portray women’s issues

  Rakib Hasan | Updated at 10:33pm on March 10, 2020

  A group painting exhibition featuring works by 18 upcoming female and two male artists depicting various women‘s issues including life of women, their contribution to...

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  Solo show remembers violence against women in 1971

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on February 09, 2020

  Noted artist Dilara Begum Jolly is known for her works that highlight histories and events in which women’s plights have been pushed to the periphery,...

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  Time for systematic, inclusive movement against rape

  | Updated at 12:00am on January 08, 2020

  RIGHTS organisations observe that violence against women has taken an epidemic turn. The proposition appears to be true given the five incidents of violence, including...

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  Worrying epidemic turn of sexual violence

  | Updated at 12:00am on January 02, 2020

  RIGHTS situation, especially violence against women, has taken a turn towards the worst. Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra in its 2019 annual report says...

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  PSTC holds prog protesting violence against women

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 08:10pm on December 12, 2019

  A protest programme against violence on women was held at Rabindra Sarobar in the capital's Dhanmondi . The programme titled 'Protest Violence Against Women' was...

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  NHRC must get into its mandated cloak

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 11, 2019

  THE National Human Rights Commission appears to have put up a poor show of its mandate — dealing with cases of rights violation — as...

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  Mexican protesters demand steps to curb violence against women

  Agence France-Presse . Mexico City | Updated at 01:49pm on November 26, 2019

  Demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted monuments and clashed with riot police Monday on Mexico City’s main avenue to protest Mexican authorities’ failure to stop a spiral...

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  Violence against women rises for culture of impunity: rights groups

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:11am on November 26, 2019

  Rights activists in a discussion on Monday said that the violence against women was increasing in the country as the culture of impunity continued letting...

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  Precarious work makes women more vulnerable

  Radhika Balakrishnan and Magalí Brosio | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2019

  That is why the recent International Labour Organisation’s convention on violence and harassment at work is so important. Governments need to take it further, write...

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  Rape of and violence against women must end

  | Updated at 12:00am on October 04, 2019

  When one rape is too many, the rape of 217 women and children only in September, the highest in any single month since 2010, sounds...