‘Gender-based violence is a national emergency’ | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
July 11, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025
‘Gender-based violence is a national emergency’

Bangladesh

TBS Report
15 October, 2020, 08:25 pm
Last modified: 15 October, 2020, 08:30 pm

Related News

  • Israel declares national emergency, seeks global assistance as massive wildfire nears Jerusalem
  • No place is safe, no one is safe: A world at war with women and children
  • Unicef, European Union, MoWCA unite to implement community-led child protection in Bangladesh against violence
  • Unicef, Bangladesh govt organise campaign against gender-based violence
  • Australia to declare east coast floods a national emergency

‘Gender-based violence is a national emergency’

Ain O Salish Kendra says that from January to September, 975 women were raped, 43 killed after being raped, and 204 faced attempted rapes

TBS Report
15 October, 2020, 08:25 pm
Last modified: 15 October, 2020, 08:30 pm
Representational Image. Picture: Collected
Representational Image. Picture: Collected

Feminists Across Generations, an alliance of individual activists fighting gender-based violence, termed such violence as a national emergency and put forward a list of 10-point demands against rape and sexual violence.

Declaration of the demands - including ending all gender-based violence by private and state actors, zero tolerance, victim-blaming at all societal levels - was made at a press conference in the capital on Thursday. 

The other demands are that rapists cannot be sheltered at home, schools and workplaces; existing rape laws must be reformed to recognise and criminalise marital rape, irrespective of the victim's age when she is raped by her spouse and others.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

Speakers at the press conference said, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating impacts on economy and public health, women also bear the burden of an increase in violence at home and beyond.

According to Ain O Salish Kendra, a human rights group, from January to September this year, 975 women were raped, 43 killed after being raped, and 204 faced attempted rape.

Another 12 women committed suicide in connection with or in pursuance of rape, it added.

At the press conference, the speakers said the platform is not only protesting individual cases of violence by men against women, but also protesting the culture that has allowed this violence to perpetuate.

They recognise the need to broaden the scope of our organizational efforts beyond trial and punishment to include discourse around long-term change.

"We are challenging the notion of women's bodies as the custodian of their own honour and that of their families; we are contesting male entitlement over women's bodies. We are angry at our families, our schools, our government – for blaming the victim, for forcing us to change instead of holding perpetrators accountable, for cultivating a culture of impunity," they added.

Top News

national emergency / Violence Against Women & Children

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • How tender rules and a lone bidder stall a $2.5b power plant
    How tender rules and a lone bidder stall a $2.5b power plant
  • Bangladesh and US hold tariff talks for second day on 9July 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing
    35% tariff: Bangladesh, US 'reach general consensus on some issues' on second day of talks; final round today
  • BNP senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed. Photo: Collected
    No scope for electoral alliance with Jamaat, door not closed for NCP: BNP's Salahuddin

MOST VIEWED

  • Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin/TBS
    SSC, equivalent results: Pass rate drops to 68.45%, GPA-5 also declines
  • In terms of stream of education, girls maintained their excellence as well. Photo: TBS
    SSC 2025: Girls dominate boys by over 5%
  • Govt vehicle purchase, foreign trip, new building construction banned: Finance ministry
    Govt vehicle purchase, foreign trip, new building construction banned: Finance ministry
  • Students sit for SSC exam at Motijheel Girls' High School on 10 April 2025. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
    SSC exam results out: Here's how you can check online and via SMS
  • The overall pass rate across all boards this year, 68.45%, is significantly lower than last year's. Photo: Focus Bangla
    SSC 2025: Rajshahi board records highest pass rate, Barishal lowest
  • Representational image. Photo: Collected
    35% tariff: Bangladesh, US 'agree on most issues' as first day of talks ends

Related News

  • Israel declares national emergency, seeks global assistance as massive wildfire nears Jerusalem
  • No place is safe, no one is safe: A world at war with women and children
  • Unicef, European Union, MoWCA unite to implement community-led child protection in Bangladesh against violence
  • Unicef, Bangladesh govt organise campaign against gender-based violence
  • Australia to declare east coast floods a national emergency

Features

Photo: Collected/BBC

What Hitler’s tariff policy misfire can teach the modern world

16h | The Big Picture
Illustration: TBS

Behind closed doors: Why women in Bangladesh stay in abusive marriages

19h | Panorama
Purbachl’s 144-acre Sal forest is an essential part of the area’s biodiversity. Within it, 128 species of plants and 74 species of animals — many of them endangered — have been identified. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS

A forest saved: Inside the restoration of Purbachal's last Sal grove

19h | Panorama
Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

11 July 2024: Riot vehicles, water cannons hit the streets as police crack down on protesters

12h | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

'Hypocrisy' will not continue, Iran tells IAEA

'Hypocrisy' will not continue, Iran tells IAEA

14h | TBS World
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

14h | TBS World
Will the title 'Honorable and Excellency' be abolished?

Will the title 'Honorable and Excellency' be abolished?

15h | TBS Today
July Declaration must be constitutionally recognized: Akhtar Hossain

July Declaration must be constitutionally recognized: Akhtar Hossain

15h | TBS Today
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net