Defaced image of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein raises questions on women's rights and feminism.

It is our responsibility to make society safe for girls by strengthening child protection system at the community and national levels.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was an autodidact who became a formidable champion of women’s rights and education when women in South Asia, especially Muslim women, were forced to live in subhuman conditions, almost like animals, or even worse than animals

Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and Begum Sufia Kamal (1911-1999), two icons in Bangla literature and culture, were not kins but kindred spirits.

Taliban’s ban on women’s higher education will further harm the country

Her 1903 piece “Alonkar na badge of slavery” marked the start of Rokeya’s explicitly feminist writing.

My mother's preoccupation with women's education went beyond her family. She would help any woman wanting to advance herself, through education and through jobs.