Despite ongoing challenges for women in employment, education, health, and safety, the national budget for fiscal year 2025–26 has seen a reduction in allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s development.
Rights activists warn that this rollback threatens to reverse progress and stall efforts toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In a historic move, Bangladesh’s national budget has, for the first time, pledged institutional recognition for women’s unpaid and unacknowledged caregiving and household work.
Even as pregnancies rise across the country, fewer women are turning to government health facilities, the most accessible and affordable source of care, for help during and after childbirth.
Three years ago, when 12-year-old Ayesha Begum got her first period, she thought she was dying.
Between January and April this year, 87.56 percent of reported rape victims with known ages were children
For 36-year-old homemaker Tania Akter, falling ill meant anxiety over costly treatment and unreliable healthcare.
On a day meant for celebration, three mothers remember the sons they lost during the uprising
Despite ongoing challenges for women in employment, education, health, and safety, the national budget for fiscal year 2025–26 has seen a reduction in allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s development.
Rights activists warn that this rollback threatens to reverse progress and stall efforts toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In a historic move, Bangladesh’s national budget has, for the first time, pledged institutional recognition for women’s unpaid and unacknowledged caregiving and household work.
Even as pregnancies rise across the country, fewer women are turning to government health facilities, the most accessible and affordable source of care, for help during and after childbirth.
Three years ago, when 12-year-old Ayesha Begum got her first period, she thought she was dying.
Between January and April this year, 87.56 percent of reported rape victims with known ages were children
For 36-year-old homemaker Tania Akter, falling ill meant anxiety over costly treatment and unreliable healthcare.
On a day meant for celebration, three mothers remember the sons they lost during the uprising
Lamia, a 18-year-old girl and the eldest daughter of a July martyr, vowed to rebuild her family’s life for her grieving mother. Following the death of her father, she would often say, “We will stand again, Ma. I will take care of everything.”
The Women’s Affairs Reforms Commission has proposed a series of comprehensive reforms to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women embedded in the country’s laws, constitution, policies, and institutions.
