This year on May 1, Sammilito Garments Sramik Federation, along with other labour activists and union leaders, will hold a rally to mark the struggle that workers of our nation face,

The Rana Plaza collapse that killed around 1,100 people put western retailers at the brink of pulling out their business from Bangladesh.

"I am a good teacher, as I do not scold or punish my students. If they do not understand something then I explain it to them,” declared a four-year-old who was acting out the role of a “teacher”; the “students” were his parents.

On Friday, the news of the death of Romel Chakma at the hands of security forces spread like wildfire in social media. The subsequent reports surrounding his detention, death and cremation are puzzling, to say the least.

The International Bill of Human Rights together with the CRPD provides a comprehensive charter, among other things, to be adopted by a ratifying state for a modern and non-discriminatory mental health system.

An intricately woven IT platform could incorporate electronic health records, digital payments and other technologies.

The questions the government should be asking is how the use of the internet can be made safer, the private data of the users be protected, and what infrastructural and policy reforms may be made to ensure that access to the internet can translate to its radical goals.

On March 28, the Bangladesh government approved the project titled “Cyber Threat Detection and Response” under which internet monitoring equipment will be installed by May of next year.

Physical injuries are some of the more visible, and at times most deadly, consequences of gender-based violence. But the long-term mental health consequences are often invisible and left untreated.

Within the last 5 years, thanks to political support and national education, autism awareness in Bangladesh has grown immensely.

The last time anyone involved in investigating Tonu's case gave any real updates was last June.

When buying a product in Bangladesh, apart from the usual concerns about its price and quality, consumers have to worry about whether the product they buy, including life-saving drugs and baby food, can cause actual harm to their health or even be fatal to them.

The future envisioned for humanity and our shared planet, across all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, rests on fully freeing women’s power and potential. It is time to act on the high ambitions of the 2030 Agenda and guarantee that every woman can thrive and contribute, including through decent, dignified work.

For the last few days, I have been thinking of a group of adolescent girls (studying in high school) whom I met in a char of Lalmonirhat district several years ago.

UN Women expert Shahra Razavi reveals the real value of unpaid care, and how we can reduce the burden on women by tackling entrenched stereotypes.

On this International Women's Day, I want to remember Nasima, Dolly, Shyamoli and all those women who did not allow violence and discrimination to break them, but rather gave them strength to stand up and fight back.

No country can afford gender-based violence. In Bangladesh, the costs of gender-based violence are estimated at 2.1 percent of the country's GDP.

In absolute terms, women could earn countries in South Asia an additional 400 billion dollars in the next ten years! Clearly, women hold the key to economic success for South Asia: their empowerment can fuel further development.

On February 17 this year, much to the surprise of many Bangladeshis, especially those from the Hindu community, Pakistan's Senate...

The newly legislated Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 (CMRA) of Bangladesh legally permits child marriage (between male below 21 and female below 18) under a “special circumstances” provision (SCP) when it is deemed in the best interests of the marrying children