Gender Discrimination

Speakers at an event at BRAC INN, Dhaka on 22 December 2024. Photo: Courtesy
RMG

Speakers call for safer workplaces, gender justice for women in RMG sector

They also underscored the importance of ensuring maternity leave wages and providing secure transportation for female workers

Both men and women are involved in stone quarrying in Panchagarh, but their roles and wages differ significantly. Photo: TBS
Thoughts

Gender inequality and environmental risks in Panchagarh’s stone quarries

FILE PHOTO: Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
Middle East

UN envoy urges world court to prosecute Afghan gender discrimination

Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

We must recognise urgent need to advance gender equality: UNFPA representative in Bangladesh

Muhammad Zayed Hossen Jubayer. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

'You get what you deserve': The minds behind gender-based violence

A worker arranges food packets inside a retail store in Kolkata October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo
South Asia

Women's participation in Indian workforce low due to gender discrimination -Oxfam

Rwandan President Paul Kagame poses for a photograph with members of the Rwandan Parliament. PHOTO: PAUL KAGAME’S FLICKR ACCOUNT
Thoughts

How autocrats use women’s rights to boost themselves

Photo: Collected.
Bangladesh

43% female UNOs face obstacles while taking action against graft: TIB

Photo: Reuters.
Sports

US women's team files appeal in gender discrimination lawsuit