Nine years have passed since Sohagi Jahan Tonu was raped and murdered inside the restricted Cumilla Cantonment on March 20, 2016. The case filed for her murder was supposed to be resolved within 180 days. However, nine years on and there has been no significant progress.

This case is yet another tragic example of how unsafe this country is for women.

On December 2, 2021, 16-year-old Sadia Akhter (not her real name), a domestic worker, stole gold jewellery and cash from the apartment in Wari, where she worked, complying with her boyfriend’s instructions.

The value of a female is largely determined by what she can offer to her family and society

A court in Manikganj today (August 7, 2022) sent a 60-year-old man to jail in a case filed for raping a fifth grader student six months ago at Khaserchar village of Dhalla union under Singair upazila in Manikganj.

The husband of a rape victim comes under acid attack in Noakhali’s Subarnachar hours after he took part in a human chain organised to protest the persecution on his wife, family members claimed.

The High Court yesterday banned the controversial two-finger test or 'virginity test' of rape victims, a medical exam victims had to go

The High Court prohibits the controversial use of “two-finger test” conducted for the rape victims to prove the rape.

The HC, while delivering the judgment, pointed out a few loopholes in the investigation and the case the prosecution presented. Coupled with the absence of medical evidence, the court decided to acquit the accused.

A local Awami League leader allegedly tortured a woman who was reportedly raped and asked her to leave her village in Nandail.

The investigation officer of a rape case claimed to have found the involvement of the victim's brother more than a year and a half after the incident and the court based on that sent him to jail on January 29.

Police have arrested three youths in connection with “raping” a garment worker in Mirpur area of Dhaka.

A wife of a rickshaw-puller is allegedly raped after she was picked up by a group of miscreants on Saturday night in Dimla upazila of Nilphamari.

A 16-year-old girl committed suicide on Tuesday night after she was reportedly raped in Chandpur village under Jagannathpur upazila

A headmaster of a school is suspended for raping a female colleague in Kushtia, according to a case filed last night.

For a rape victim, justice in the existing legal system in Bangladesh means further humiliation and unending hassles.

A study by this paper has found that 82 percent of rape victims are under the age of 20, many of them minors. More than half of the victims were schoolgirls who were raped on their way to or from school. About twenty-two percent were sexually abused at home.

A study by The Daily Star has discovered that 82 percent of the rape victims are under the age of 20. Fifty two percent of girls or women are raped by an individual male,37 percent are gang-raped and 11 percent faced rape attempts.

WHAT is as deplorable as the sexual assault and the attempted rape on a minor at a higher secondary school recently is the way the school authorities have handled the matter.