Police have arrested a private university teacher for molesting a student at a barbecue party at the Uttara residence of the accused.

Seventeen eminent citizens have expressed grave concern over murder and humiliation of teachers in Ashulia and Narail, and urged the government to strictly address the incidents.

A case has been filed against an unidentified man with Shahbagh Police Station in connection with sexually harassing a young woman on the Dhaka University campus last Wednesday (June 8, 2022).

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Rajshahi University authorities have suspended the four-year increment of a teacher, and also his promotion, for harassing – sexually and mentally – two students of the university’s Institute of Education and Research (IER).

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Police today arrested a man on charge of sexually abusing a five-year-old girl in the capital’s Kafrul area.

A former bank official has been sent to jail on charges of sexually abusing four children in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila after he surrendered before the court yesterday.

Anti-rape protests continued across the country for the seventh consecutive day today as different organisations took to the streets demonstrating against rape, sexual harassment and violence against women.

Police have arrested one in a case over sexual harassment of a student of Jagannath University (JnU) inside a running bus on the International Women's Day observed lately.

For a girl or a woman living in Dhaka city, the possibility of being sexually harassed is a reality she has lived with from a very early age.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher for allegedly harassing an 11-year-old boy in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila.

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned to suspend Md Durul Huda, a teacher of Rajshahi University School and College, who allegedly sexually harassed a student in October last year.

The parliamentary standing committee on home, foreign affairs and expatriate welfare and overseas employment will hold joint meeting to discuss repression and sexual harassment against Bangladeshi female workers abroad specially in Middle Eastern countries.

A man is crushed under the wheels of a bus when he was hurriedly getting down of the vehicle after two women passengers brought allegation against him of sexual harassment in Chattogram city.

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed has been criticised by three opposition lawmakers in parliament for the ministry’s failure to stop torture and sexual harassment of Bangladeshi female workers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has urged all concerned to be careful and sincere so that the people involved in the incidents of torture and rape of women and children cannot get bail from the High Court.

The incident of violence against women, particularly rape, has increased significantly in the recent months comparing to that of the previous year, says a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her government’s firm stance against sexual violence including rape and called upon males of the country to be more vocal, preventing the epidemic of such incidents in the society.

At least 204 people fell victim to “extrajudicial killings” by law enforcement agencies across the country in the last six months, Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) says.