National Child Protection Subcluster Information Management Officer reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sara Khatun,
Programme Manager, NETZ
Our project began in 2018 with an aim to strengthen the grassroots civil society so that they can actively enhance their operational space and direct it towards the protection of human rights and prevent violence based on gender and other identities. This project has been implementing in partnership with WE CAN, DASCOH Foundation, and NETZ with the financial assistance of the European Union. Bangladesh has various laws to promote women s rights and prevent violence against women but there is a gap in implementation. Through this project, we have organised 3,200 civil society actors in 128 groups and arranged regular dialogues with 1,600 representatives from 44 public authorities; training has been provided to 160 marriage registrars and 40 female police officers on Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) and Domestic Violence Protection Act (DVA). So far, 1,501 gender-based violence (GBV) cases have been reported by the CSOs and addressed with co
Project Manager-Gender Based Violance reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pandemic and Disaster - Life of women and girls in climate-vulnerable areas
The Daily Star and Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) jointly organised an online discussion titled “Pandemic and Disaster - Life of women and girls in climate-vulnerable areas” on November 29, 2020. Here we publish a summary of the discussion. Speakers’ serial has been maintained as per the flow of the discussion.
Banasree Mitra Neogi,
Gender Advisor, Manusher Jonno Foundation
This particular study was conducted to observe the collective effects of the pandemic and the climate crisis on women in Bangladesh, especially the ones living in disaster-prone areas. Today s discussion has two main objectives: to showcase the study findings and to find a way to tackle the challenges.