City Desk :
Satsang Mandir Committee
The 129th Appearance Day of Shri Shri Thakur Anukul Chandra was observed by Satsang Mandir Committee in Kushtia in a befitting manner yesterday. On the occasion the Committee brought out a procession in the town and performed holy bath in the River Gorai. Few hundred disciples gathered in front of the Satsang Temple in the town for prayer. The procession paraded different roads of the town and ended on the bank of Gorai where the disciples took their sacred bath. According to the temple sources, Thakur Anukul Chandra, founder of Satsang, a social movement, came to Kushtia on 30th Vadra in the Bengali year 1325 and took sacred bath with his disciples in the River Gorai.
CARE Bangladesh
A recent survey conducted by CARE Bangladesh has revealed that due to patriarchal family culture, a teenage girl has a little opportunity to raise voice against any decision taken by her guardians against early marriage, even if that goes against her will and freedom. The marriage process excludes voice of girls and they have to act as a silent subject, said child rights activists. A father, the sole decision maker of a family, often arranges marriage for his daughter without consultation with her, even his wife. The family chief thinks he always does the right and intends to run the family in his way. Around 30 percent girls are to set marriage at 15 or below in Bangladesh, said a report of CARE Bangladesh which was published last year (2015). Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage outside sub-Saharan nations and the country sees 65 percent of girls get married before 18 while 51 percent enrolled in secondary schools, according to the last year’s report. Poverty, sense of insecurity, social norms, religious and cultural beliefs and dowry play key role in marrying girl at early age, survey added.
Unnayan Dhara Trust
Different organisations including Unnayan Dhara Trust, Equitybd and Forum of Environment Journalist, Bangladesh organised a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in the city recently. In the programme the leaders of organisations urged the government to be vocal on climate migrant issues in the coming UN High-Level Meeting on “Refugees and Migrants” scheduled to be held on September 19 next in New York. They urged the government to proceed with an international negotiation strategies focusing the climate induced migrant issue in the meeting likely to be attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The government is needed to rethink and have plans to integrate all ministries with a common focus on climate induced displacement, they told.
The function was addressed, among others, by Mostafa Kamal Akand, Networking Coordinator of EquityBD, Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, President of Forum of Environment Journalist, Bangladesh (FEJB), Kawser Rahman of Bangladesh Climate Change Journalist Forum (BCJF), Aminur Rasul Babul of Unnayan Dhara Trust and Waliur Rahaman from WARBE Development Foundation.
Satsang Mandir Committee
The 129th Appearance Day of Shri Shri Thakur Anukul Chandra was observed by Satsang Mandir Committee in Kushtia in a befitting manner yesterday. On the occasion the Committee brought out a procession in the town and performed holy bath in the River Gorai. Few hundred disciples gathered in front of the Satsang Temple in the town for prayer. The procession paraded different roads of the town and ended on the bank of Gorai where the disciples took their sacred bath. According to the temple sources, Thakur Anukul Chandra, founder of Satsang, a social movement, came to Kushtia on 30th Vadra in the Bengali year 1325 and took sacred bath with his disciples in the River Gorai.
CARE Bangladesh
A recent survey conducted by CARE Bangladesh has revealed that due to patriarchal family culture, a teenage girl has a little opportunity to raise voice against any decision taken by her guardians against early marriage, even if that goes against her will and freedom. The marriage process excludes voice of girls and they have to act as a silent subject, said child rights activists. A father, the sole decision maker of a family, often arranges marriage for his daughter without consultation with her, even his wife. The family chief thinks he always does the right and intends to run the family in his way. Around 30 percent girls are to set marriage at 15 or below in Bangladesh, said a report of CARE Bangladesh which was published last year (2015). Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage outside sub-Saharan nations and the country sees 65 percent of girls get married before 18 while 51 percent enrolled in secondary schools, according to the last year’s report. Poverty, sense of insecurity, social norms, religious and cultural beliefs and dowry play key role in marrying girl at early age, survey added.
Unnayan Dhara Trust
Different organisations including Unnayan Dhara Trust, Equitybd and Forum of Environment Journalist, Bangladesh organised a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in the city recently. In the programme the leaders of organisations urged the government to be vocal on climate migrant issues in the coming UN High-Level Meeting on “Refugees and Migrants” scheduled to be held on September 19 next in New York. They urged the government to proceed with an international negotiation strategies focusing the climate induced migrant issue in the meeting likely to be attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The government is needed to rethink and have plans to integrate all ministries with a common focus on climate induced displacement, they told.
The function was addressed, among others, by Mostafa Kamal Akand, Networking Coordinator of EquityBD, Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, President of Forum of Environment Journalist, Bangladesh (FEJB), Kawser Rahman of Bangladesh Climate Change Journalist Forum (BCJF), Aminur Rasul Babul of Unnayan Dhara Trust and Waliur Rahaman from WARBE Development Foundation.
