sexual harassment

Men should be worried

Men all over the world are getting worried. Or at least they should be. What started out as a movement in the US against sexual harassment of powerful men at top positions in Hollywood...
12 October 2018, 18:00 PM

HC seeks report on workers sexually harassed abroad

The High Court today sought a report from the government about the details on how many Bangladeshi workers have been sexually harassed in foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia, so far.
31 July 2018, 08:49 AM

Microsoft expands program for women returning to work

Microsoft Corp is expanding a program designed to increase its hiring of women seeking to rejoin the workforce, following a rash of complaints about sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the world’s largest software company.
6 June 2018, 05:42 AM

Stop sexual harassment at work

Sexual harassment at workplace has emerged as a growing problem for women in Bangladesh as more women are now joining the workforce. Speakers at a discussion on Wednesday talked about the problems of harassment, violence and discrimination facing female professionals in general, and stressed on bringing in appropriate legislation to prevent them. Law, if enforced properly, can greatly help to curb such practices, but it is only part of the solution.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Harvey Weinstein charged with rape

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is arraigned in a New York court, charged with rape and a criminal sex act on two women, nearly eight months after his career imploded in a blaze of accusations that triggered the #MeToo movement.
25 May 2018, 11:40 AM

Tackling the menace of sexual harassment

It is extremely concerning that the guideline issued by the Supreme Court for addressing sexual harassment at educational institutions and workplaces remains unimplemented even after almost a decade. This means that universities and organisations have failed to fulfil their obligation to form committees responsible for investigating sexual harassment complaints and taking appropriate action.
8 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Univ girl harassed on bus: 3 Turag Paribahan staff remanded

A Dhaka court places three staffers of a Turag Paribahan bus on three-day remand in a case filed for sexually harassing a university student in the running bus in Dhaka on Sunday.
24 April 2018, 13:59 PM

3 held for 'sexually harassing' private univ student in bus

Three transport workers are arrested in connection with sexually harassing a private university student in a running bus in Dhaka on Saturday.
23 April 2018, 14:16 PM

3 Eden college students, relatives ‘assaulted, sexually harassed’, 4 held in Dhaka

Three students of Eden Women's College and their three female relatives are “assaulted and sexually harassed” by salesmen of a clothing store at Chandni Chowk market in Dhaka.
24 March 2018, 14:48 PM

March 7 Sexual Harassment: 'Proof found in CCTV footage'

Police yesterday said they found proof of a college girl being sexually assaulted in Banglamotor area on Wednesday, an incident about which she opened up on Facebook.
8 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Cops identifying men linked to yesterday’s sexual harassment on streets: Home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says that law enforcers will take action against those who sexually harassed women on streets in Dhaka yesterday.
8 March 2018, 09:57 AM

What it means to be a woman in the workplace

It is rare for women to be at the top, period. And even rarer for that woman to have worked their way to the top—more commonly, those who hold privileged positions often inherit their family businesses. Here, we feature women in diverse industries who have worked their way to the top, in a man’s world.
8 March 2018, 09:40 AM

On Facebook, they open up

A number of women alleged that they had been sexually harassed by groups of men on crowded streets of Dhaka yesterday.
7 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Youth jailed for sexually harassing Rajshahi SSC examinee

A mobile court jails youth for 10 months and 10 days for sexually harassing female SSC examinee at an exam hall in Rajshahi’s Durgapur upazila.
24 February 2018, 09:25 AM

The sexual harassment reckoning

Deeds, not words!” Britain's suffragettes shouted, as they fought for—and won—the right to vote 100 years ago. Today, that call to arms seems more apt than ever. For all the advances that women have made in the last century, the tendency to pay lip service to women's rights and dignity, without doing what is necessary truly to protect them, is more obvious than ever.
23 February 2018, 18:00 PM

21 women raped, assaulted on public transport in 13 months: Report

At least 17 women were either gang raped or raped inside public transports while four other women were sexually harassed across the country in the last 13 months, a passengers’ welfare platform said.
15 February 2018, 09:03 AM

The spectre of online sexual harassment

Yeanur Rahman came to Dhaka with big dreams. She studied hard, aced her final exams maintaining a good GPA and got admitted into a public university in the capital. Things were going exactly as she had envisioned. Better yet, the freshman thought she had fallen in love with someone in her very first year.
25 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Violated and shamed: Sexual misconduct in Asia

As more victims step out to tell of sexual harassment in the United States and Europe, The Straits Times Asian bureaus look at how the region perceives this rarely publicly-discussed issue.
26 November 2017, 05:04 AM

RU students protest harassment of female students on campus

Rajshahi University students form a human chain protesting physical harassment of female students by unknown people on the campus.
22 November 2017, 15:57 PM

Harassment of women 'can never be tolerated': Ivanka Trump

Sexual harassment of women should "never be tolerated", Ivanka Trump told an audience in Tokyo, calling for women to be treated with greater respect at work.
3 November 2017, 09:32 AM