By Jenefa Jabbar
The 410 Legal Aid Centers that I manage in Bangladesh for BRAC’s Human Rights and Legal Aid Services received approximately 35,900 requests for assistance in 2020. Almost all of them involve gender-based violence against women and girls.
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There has been a large increase in cultural reports provided for court sentencing. (File photo)
The number of cultural reports and their cost to taxpayers has sky-rocketed, with mixed views on whether they are a good use of more than $3 million that could have been spent on rehabilitation rather than report writing. Figures provided under the Official Information Act show the number of cultural reports invoiced to the Ministry of Justice shot up from 346 in 2019 to 1557 in 2020. The cost to the ministry rose from $639,311 in 2019 to $3,299,373 last year. A cultural report, which can be used by any offender, is an extra way of outlining the offender s background and how they may have come to offend.
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A woman walks her dog in the snow Tuesday. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
Though the power may be back on and the freezing temperatures are going away, there are still more ways Norman residents can help their neighbors moving out of last weekâs winter storms.
After freezing temperatures left many residents isolated, cold and some without power this past week, Michelle Evans, homelessness program coordinator for the City of Norman, said that she was heartened to see everyone come together to help one another.
âIt was a really neat thing to see how everyone came together,â Evans said. âAnd not just for the homeless, but literally neighbors helping neighbors.â