Women’s Issues

Narigrantha Prabartana and UBINIG Celebrating Women's Struggles (on the occasion of 100 years of International Women's Day) Introduction The International Women's Day on 8th March, 2010 is going to be very significant for the women's movement around the world, and particularly for the women in Bangladesh as it is the completion of 100 years of declaration of the International Women's Day. This Day has become very familiar to the Women's Movement as "Antorjatik Nari Dibosh" and is celebrated all over the country. Women's organizations in Bangladesh are preparing for celebrating the occasion with many events. The International Women's Day was first declared by German Socialist leader Clara Zetkin at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910 held in Cope...

Narigrantha Parbartana Roundtable Discussion on International Women's Day, Venue: National Press Club, VIP Lounge. Date: 6th March, 2010 Time: 10 am – 1:30 pm. Organized by: Narigrantha Prabartana, UBINIG and Odhikar. Professor Latifa Akhand is presiding over second session of the roundtable discussion The preparations for the Roundtable discussion started in early January, 2010, in the Monday regular meetings of women in Narigrantha Prabartana. Specific issues were selected for discussions and discussed in an informal manner to clarify the understandings of the women's issues. The theme for the Roundtable Discussion was "Struggles and Challenges faced by women in patriarchal economic and social situation: Demand appropriate policies". The National Committee members with advice ...

Celebrating Women’s Struggle

International Women’s Day 2010