BSS, Rajshahi :
Ensuring safe space for girls through combating all sorts of violence especially sexual harassment against them has become an urgent need for boosting women empowerment, speakers in a discussion here said.
They observed that sexual harassment at public places restricts girls rights to education, rights to mobility, rights to freedom and rights to life. So, the social crime must be averted through forging social movement.
Gender-sensitive social mindset can help establish rights of the adolescents through reducing violence and repression against them.
The observations came at a networking meeting styled “Elimination of Sexual Harassment against Schoolgirls. Meyeder Jonnyo Nirapad Nagorikotto (MEJNIN)” programme organized the meeting in association with Gender Justice and Diversity Division of BRAC held at its office in the city on Friday afternoon.
During her concept paper presentation Rezwana Afroz, Sector Specialist of Mejnin highlighted the aims and objectives of the event and sought all-out cooperation of the network members on how to prevent and resist sexual harassment and all other violation against girls.
With Network Convener Akbarul Hassan Millat in the chair, BRAC District Representative Jahedul Islam, Sector Specialist Kawsar Bin Latif, BLAST Coordinator Advocate Abdus Samad, Schoolteachers Khoteja Khatun Mousumi, Shapla Hossain and Kolpona Roy Bhowmik and Journalist Ashraf Babu spoke on the occasion.
Ensuring safe space for girls through combating all sorts of violence especially sexual harassment against them has become an urgent need for boosting women empowerment, speakers in a discussion here said.
They observed that sexual harassment at public places restricts girls rights to education, rights to mobility, rights to freedom and rights to life. So, the social crime must be averted through forging social movement.
Gender-sensitive social mindset can help establish rights of the adolescents through reducing violence and repression against them.
The observations came at a networking meeting styled “Elimination of Sexual Harassment against Schoolgirls. Meyeder Jonnyo Nirapad Nagorikotto (MEJNIN)” programme organized the meeting in association with Gender Justice and Diversity Division of BRAC held at its office in the city on Friday afternoon.
During her concept paper presentation Rezwana Afroz, Sector Specialist of Mejnin highlighted the aims and objectives of the event and sought all-out cooperation of the network members on how to prevent and resist sexual harassment and all other violation against girls.
With Network Convener Akbarul Hassan Millat in the chair, BRAC District Representative Jahedul Islam, Sector Specialist Kawsar Bin Latif, BLAST Coordinator Advocate Abdus Samad, Schoolteachers Khoteja Khatun Mousumi, Shapla Hossain and Kolpona Roy Bhowmik and Journalist Ashraf Babu spoke on the occasion.
