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Friday, August 25, 2023
Hasina proposes five initiatives to empower women as change-makers
BD News 24
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged a collective effort to empower women and girls in the Global South to actively contribute to achieving gender equality – the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal No. 5. "In the Global South, we must create an...
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Source: Daily Observer
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Bangladesh: Important role of women participation in BD politics
Daily Observer
Despite the remarkable progress of women in many professions, politics is not one of them. Indeed, around the world, women have been conspicuous by their absence in decision and policy making in government. The real empowerment of women is achieved...
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Women’s participation in local government of Bangladesh (Picture: Khabarhub)
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women’s participation in local government of Bangladesh
Khabarhub
Policy frameworks are set to include women in the political process for empowering women, and enhancing rural development, and national development as a whole. Over the years public policies have been made, and revised to mandatorily include women...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
PM Hasina’s leadership helps Bangladesh’s economic recovery from COVID-19
The Independent
Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering today lauded Bangladesh for making striking economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic crediting the success to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership. “Despite numerous challenges, Prime Minister...
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Monday, October 12, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Who owns the world and who merely lives in it?
Dhaka Tribune
The Thomson Reuters Foundation carried out a survey that stated that Dhaka ranked as the seventh most dangerous megacity for women. While sexual violence and cultural practices contribute to Bangladesh’s failure to protect women, what is often...
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Friday, June 12, 2020
Women of Bangladesh emerge as global model of leadership
Dhaka Tribune
Bangladesh ranks 7th in the world in the political empowerment of women. Bangladesh has emerged as a shining global model of women leadership when women take leading positions at every sphere of its political and social arena with them performing...
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Friday, September 06, 2019
For Rohingya women, refugee elections bring new opportunities – and new problems
The New Humanitarian
Romida Begum sat on a chair in her tent home. Nearby, her older male assistant eyed her with a sideways glance. Romida – 27, a woman, and a refugee – couldn’t help but smirk: for once in her life, she was in charge. Last June, Romida and other...
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Monday, February 04, 2019
Interviews
Waseqa Ayesha Khan
Waseqa Ayesha Khan is Member of Parliament of Bangladesh. This interview was conducted in October 2017 in the margins of the IPU Assembly in Geneva.
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Monday, January 14, 2019
Are reserved seats in the parliament sufficient for women’s empowerment?
Dhaka Tribune
There is broad consensus that women’s increased participation in politics is necessary for both the democratic development of the country, as well as women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. In the recently-held 11th general election, 22 women were...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Why Bangladeshi politics is man's domain
Deutsche Welle
Two powerful women – Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia – have dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades, but the South Asian country's women are still underrepresented in parliament and are politically marginalized. Nazla Ibtesham, an 18-year-old...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Interviews
Saber Chowdhury
Saber Chowdhury is a Member of Parliament in Bangladesh and has been the 28th President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, since October 2014. This interview was conducted during the 133rd IPU Assembly. 
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Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy -Photo Commons
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Bangladesh’s only female big-city mayor may also be its most effective
Narayanganj, Bangladesh — This Muslim-majority nation may have a female prime minister, but at the local level it remains difficult for women to gain and hold political power. Salina Hayat Ivy knows this better than anybody. As the mayor of this...
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Professeur Muhammad Yunus-Photo: Yunus Centre/Nasir Ali Mamun
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Professor Muhammad Yunus - Women at the centre of our economic activity
By Professor Muhammad Yunus Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh with the objective of helping poor people escape from poverty by providing loans without collateral to support income-generating activities. From Prof....
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Report / White Paper
Beijing +20 National review, Bangladesh
The period 1995 to 2014 has been a period of economic growth led by increased agricultural production, exports, and remittances from international migration, lowering of dependency on external aid and a growing productive population. It has also...
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Report / White Paper
Country Reviews: Women’s Political Participation in South Asia.”
Governance in all South Asian countries is imbued with a predominantly patriarchal character. This is reflected in the fact that women form a disproportionately small segment of representatives in elected bodies across all levels of governance, and...
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Monday, January 06, 2014
17 women elected MPs in 10th JS, Bangladesh
The 10th parliamentary polls see 17 women candidates elected, according to unofficial results of the election. The number is just one less than the historic high of the 2008 election, when 18 women were elected.However, the current figure can still...
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Women in South Asia: Looking back at 2013, and ahead to 2014
Swarna Rajagopalan takes a look at the events that shaped women's rights and gender issues in South Asia in the last year, and what changes and developments we might see in the new year. 2013 witnessed a new awareness about sexual and gender-...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Hasina 'allowed' to lead polls-time govt
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she has been granted permission by the president to lead the polls-time government. President Hamid has granted her the permission, she said on Wednesday evening during the 19th session of 9th Parliament....
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