UNB :
Some 1,182 incidents of sexual harassments were recorded in the country in the first 10 months of the year (January – October).
Of these, 955 were rapes, 220 were gang rapes and 259 were attempted rapes. In other words, there are about four incidents of rape in a day.
At the same time, about 84% of women in the country have faced sexual harassment in some form or various forms -everywhere from the roads, in or on vehicles, at educational institutions, in the workplace of course and even at home.
The Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA) chief Salma Ali presented this information in a roundtable discussion titled ‘Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh: Current Context and What to Do to Prevent It’.
The figures and statistics presented in the discussion were compiled from different national dailies and online news portals from January to October this year.
