Societal expectations and cultural norms impact young people's SRHR, including their choices about their bodies, relationships, and futures

Workplace sexual harassment is common in Bangladesh. It inhibits  women from entering the labour market and is also a major reason why they drop out of work.

The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.

The link between the structural and personal is continually at risk of getting obscured in favour of an individualist reading of interpersonal violence.

Bhawaiya, produced and reproduced by both men and women, bears the elements of subverting Bengali gender norms.

While discussing the legal recognition of gender identity, many participants highlighted that the state authorities and general people lack sufficient understanding of the various clusters of the transgender population.

The increasing difficulty of accessing clean water is forcing young women in coastal areas of Bangladesh to try to halt their menstrual cycles by misusing contraceptive pills, putting their long-term reproductive and mental health at risk.

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said Saturday that he is in "a state of shock" after Dani Alves's arrest on sexual assault allegations.

Mehnaz (not her real name), a student of Chittagong University, was sexually harassed by a group of men on her campus a few months ago.

Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) authorities suspended the headmaster of Kapasgola City Corporation Girls High School following protest against him for "sexually harassing" female students.

Women's achievements were overshadowed by the gendered inequalities they continue to face

Scale up such initiatives for a safe city for women

Prof Gitiara Nasreen of Dhaka University speaks on campus sexual harassment and media’s role in normalising sexual violence

On-campus incidents of sexual harassment and violence are regularly reported on

The hostility that the Bangladeshi public usually shows towards women is in no way civilised

An online survey of over 5,000 women spread across 24 districts of the country has revealed that nearly 87 percent of them have faced some form of harassment at least once in their lives.

How is it that we live in a society where a woman must endure humiliating attacks from another woman and her male cohorts in a public place for the clothes she chooses to wear?

The apathy towards ending sexual harassment on campus is a symptom of wider institutional control.

A school student died by suicide after she was reportedly sexually harassed and a fake Facebook ID was opened under her name to make offensive posts in Morrelganj of Bagerhat.

Chittagong University authorities yesterday expelled four Bangladesh Chhatra League activists for their involvement in the sexual harassment of two female students on the campus in September last year.