WORKSHOP ON “COMBATING DEPRESSION IN WOMEN: LET'S TALK”

It was definitely after office hours when a phone call came and made me panic. The number on my screen was unknown but it was pretty easy to guess where the call came from. The law enforcement bodies have a digit sequence that most journalists in the city are trained to recognise.

A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

On a warm spring afternoon, as I was desperately looking for a vacant rickshaw near the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong city, I heard a woman shouting from behind, "Baba! Wait, let me just finish my roti!

In the last few years, our education sector has been facing an inexorable crisis- disclosure of question papers, which is really unfortunate and disgraceful.

International Women's Day is just around the corner. Every year this day brings with it a fresh calculation of the triumphs and losses of the women's movement.

An Islamic State offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting fighters and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said.

Greek villagers stage a street battle with bags of colored flour in an annual tradition called the Flour War.

In the face of scathing criticism from local and international activists and human rights groups about what qualifies as a “special case”, here I am pondering if we truly understand the challenge at hand.

In 2015, the global community adopted 17 Global Goals, also called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aimed at ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and combating climate change.

Last time the world witnessed a phenomenal growth in agricultural productivity was back in the 60s.

Vaccines do not just prevent disease, they are a long-term investment in the development of a society and in the health of its children.

In a historic moment on September 8, 2000 the United Nations (UN) adopted the Millennium Declaration that urged for “efforts to promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law, as well as respect for all internationally recognised human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development.”

Over the next 15 years, the Sustainable Development Goals will influence more than USD 2.5 trillion of money in development aid...

The government of Bangladesh recognises combating corruption as critical to progress towards realising the Perspective Plan - Vision 2021, the 7th Five Year Plan (7FYP) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The need for local government is stimulated by the rationale for transferring the authority, responsibility and resources from the national government to its field units, to enable them in decision-making, planning and management.

The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 under the title “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Poverty is a multidimensional crisis encompassing social, economic and political components. In the last two decades, Bangladesh has shown tremendous progress in both absolute and social poverty alleviation.

On September 25, 2015, at the end of the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the UN General Council drew up Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their place.

The statement above holds true for all countries irrespective of economic conditions or political system.