Social resistance indispensable to resist violence against women
BSS :
Ensuring women rights has become crucial to establish equity-based society through ending violence and repression against them.
Wide-ranging social awareness among the community people, especially parents and teachers, is very important for prevention of child marriage and dowry for substantial and sustainable reduction of violence against women.
Government officials, development activists and other stakeholders made the observation while addressing a district-level dialogue in Chapainawabganj on Thursday.
DASCOH Foundation organised the dialogue titled “Prevention of sexual harassment, child marriage and violence and repression against women” at Civil Surgeon Office supported by NETZ Bangladesh.
Civil Surgeon Dr SM Mahmudur Rashid addressed the discussion as the chief guest while District Education Officer Abdur Rashid, Social Service Officer Firoz Kabir, Deputy Director of the Department of Women Affairs Sahida Akhtar and Assistant Director of the department of Youth Development Ashiqur Rahman spoke as special guests.
Area Coordinator of DASCOH Foundation Ruhul Amin gave an illustration on the issue besides putting forward a set of recommendations on how to solve the problem during his keynote presentation.
Terming the child marriage as the major violence and gross violation of human rights he said there is no alternative to eliminate it collectively.
There is an urgent need to establish social networks and alliances involving government and non-government organisations, community people, civil society and media to attain the cherished goal.
Besides, utmost emphasis should be given on strengthening legal assistance and effective enforcement of laws regarding women repression to eliminate the number of violence against women.
The discussants unanimously termed the present government as women-friendly and mentioned that the government has attached top priority on women development.
Civil Surgeon Dr SM Mahmudur Rashid put emphasis on both men-women equal participation for achieving the SDGs by 2030 coupled with building a developed and prosperous Bangladesh by 2041.
