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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 addresse ....
Taking responsibility of girl child ‘discomforting’ for society, families Says rights activist Sultana Kamal Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent Both society and families feel discomfort in taking responsibility of a girl child as soon as she is born, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal has said. A great revelation of this discomfort is child marriage, she said while addressing a virtual roundtable on Strengthened Civil Society Protects and Promotes Women s Rights organised by Netz Bangladesh in partnership with We Can, Dascoh Foundation, and The Daily Star. Addressing as guest speaker, Kamal said many parents think they do not need to be responsible for their girl child once she is married off. ....
Work together to end child marriage: speakers City Desk City Desk In order to ensure women s empowerment, child marriage needs to be eliminated, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatunnesa Indira said at a webinar held on Thursday. The webinar, titled National Webinar on Grassroots Approaches to Prevent Child Marriage , was organised as part of the Shouhardo programme funded by USAID and the government, and implemented by CARE Bangladesh. The objective of the webinar was to disseminate the findings from a study by CARE on child marriage, a press release said. Speaking as chief guest, Indira also said the government has taken several measures to reduce the prevalence of child marriage. ....