Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Nominee for Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)

Bangladeshi activists have been campaigning to stop the nomination of Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Special Adviser to the PM.

Bangladesh: South Asia Court of Women

A three-day 'South Asia Court of Women on the Violence of Trafficking begins on August 11.

Dossier 14-15: Encore plus de miettes pour les femmes?

Le projet de loi (Private Member's Bill) du député Farida Rahman, portant sur une proposition d'amendement à la section V1 du décret sur le code de la famille musulman de 1961 a suscité beaucoup de discussions, en raison de son caractère peu conventionnel et controversé. Ce sont surtout des groupes de femmes activistes qui ont manifesté un grand intérêt. Le projet de loi pose toute la question des droits des femmes d'intérêt général. Nous publions donc aujourd'hui un article critique et serions heureuses de recevoir d'autres contributions, pour ou contre la motion.

Dossier 14-15: Le Forum d’action des femmes présente ses excuses aux femmes du Bangladesh

Dans une déclaration publiée lundi, date commémorant le début de l'action armée dans l'ancien Pakistan oriental, le Forum d'action des femmes (WAF [1]) a présenté ses excuses aux femmes du Bangladesh pour la violence dont elles ont été les victimes au cours des événements de 1971. La déclaration est la suivante:

Fatwas Against Women in Bangladesh

This publication describes death sentences pronounced against women in order to obstruct women's development and education, those against women journalists, women who have been accused of sex outside marriage and cases of violence against women and situates these in the religious/political context of Bangladesh in the 1990s.

Dossier 22: In Memory of Begum Sufia Kamal, the Unrelenting Voice for Democracy, Secularism and Women’s rights in Bangladesh

• Excerpts from: New York Times, November 28, 1999

Sufia Kamal, Bangladeshi Writer and Women's Rights Advocate, Dies
By Douglas Martin

Sufia Kamal, a Bangladeshi poet, political activist and feminist, died at age 88 on Nov. 20 1999 and was buried [...] with full state honors, the first woman to receive that recognition from Bangladesh. [...] [Thousands] of people paid their respects to Ms. Kamal at her funeral [...] in Dhaka. [...] [Begum Kamal] ...

Dossier 22: Post Divorce Maintenance for Muslim Women and the Islamist Discourse

Introduction

We live in an era where relativism and humanism affect almost every facet of our lives. Not least among these facets is the discourse of Islam vis a vis women’s human rights. The importance of such factors as relativism, humanism and gender sensitivity has not come about in a vacuum.

Dossier 21: Mullahs, Migrants, Miracles: Travel and Transformation in Sylhet (Bangladesh)

Introduction

Dominating the courtyard of the homestead of Abdul Hossain is a large and ostentatious shrine. Decorated with Arabic designs and words, and surrounded by flags, the shrine (mazaar) is similar to hundreds of similarly venerated graves scattered over the landscape of rural Sylhet, in north-east Bangladesh. It proclaims for all to see that the late Abdul Hossain is a pir.

Dossier 14-15: More Crumbs for Women?

Farida Rahman MP’s Private Member’s Bill on a proposed amendment to section V1 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 has become a much-talked-about subject because of its unconventional and contentious nature. Particularly, various women’s activist groups have shown tremendous interest in it. The subject of the bill raises the whole issue of women’s rights of general interests.

Dossier 16: Women’s reproductive rights and the politics of fundamentalism: A view from Bangladesh

Women's reproductive rights and the politics of fundamentalism: A view from Bangladesh [1]

Sajeda Amin and Sara Hossain

Will it be we, the women living in the Muslim city, who will pay the price…?