Shamsunnahar (57), for nearly half of her life, has been working as a woman human rights defender and a field staff member of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). She limps while she walks, but does not quiver while she talks; she frequents hospitals, relies heavily on medicines, but that does not prevent her from being the defender she truly is. Back in 2018, one Farzana (pseudonym), a victim of physical and mental abuse by her husband, sought ASK’s shelter services ...
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The arms and weapons used during the Liberation War of 1971 are now ‘old, obsolete and ineffective as a weapon to be used during a war’. Citing these reasons, the Government took the initiative to sell these weapons to 3 different arms import companies, two in United States and one in Switzerland, who expressed their willingness to buy them as ancient monuments or antique souvenirs. This was reported in the national news daily Prothom Alo on 05 October 2020, which ...
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Laila (pseudonym) is a person with speech impairment. Back on 26 May 2008, she was rescued by the Tangail patrol police and kept in a public shelter home at Mirpur after filing a GD. When they were making preparations to place her in the shelter home, they realised that she was pregnant. Her situation was slightly more vulnerable than others as, due to her disability, she could not tell the reason of her pregnancy. Considering the situation and time when ...
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Back in 2008, Sumaiya, a student in her 1st grade, got lost while she was on her way home from her school. While she was roaming lost on the street, a pedestrian noticed her and asked her for her home address. As she was unable to recall her home address, he took her to Barishal Hizla where she worked as a house help till 2018. In February 2018, she runs away from her place of work in a launch to ...
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