women

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Bangladesh

Women, children bear brunt of climate disasters in southern Bangladesh: IRC report

Environment Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury speaks at a workshop on Gender-Responsive Climate Financing in Bangladesh at a city hotel on Wednesday (6 March). Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Women are the key driving force of Bangladesh: Saber

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Health

We need to create space for dialogue on sexual, reproductive health: Speakers

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Banking

Women presence in bank boards drops to 13.51%

Women raise hands at an event where the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan was visiting, in the village Ladkui near Bhopal, India, 8 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
South Asia

With handouts, piped water and cooking gas, India's Modi woos women voters

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RMG

Skill development, welfare of women RMG workers stressed

Four women out of 62 independent candidates won in the 12th national election and became members of parliament.
Politics

4 women out of 62 independent candidates become MPs

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Offbeat

Smell of women's tears may reduce aggression in men: Study

Five prominent women named as Begum Rokeya 2023 awardees
Bangladesh

Five prominent women named as Begum Rokeya 2023 awardees

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai speaks during the 21st Nelson Mandela Annual Peace Lecture on the tenth anniversary of his death, in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 5, 2023. REUTERS
World+Biz

Malala Yousafzai likens Taliban's treatment of women to apartheid in Mandela lecture

The ADB will research how the growing threat of heat stress affects women and identify specific policies, actions, and investments that can help governments reduce the impacts of heat on women and girls. Photo: ADB
Climate Change

New ADB initiative to strengthen women's resilience to heat stress in Asia

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Bangladesh

Strategies, guideline on online safety of journalists, women, human rights defenders discussed

JS polls: 24 women get AL tickets
Politics

JS polls: 24 women get AL tickets