City Desk :
Speakers at a workshop have stressed the need for joint and sincere efforts of all stakeholders to bring an end to domestic violence against women for revitalizing social values and building a peaceful society.
They also underscored the need for showing cooperative attitude to each other among the family members and in the working places and institutions and assist empowering the womenfolk to eradicate the social crimes once for all.
The speakers said this at a workshop on “Challenges and Recommendations for Implementation of Domestic Violence (Protection and Safety net) Act 2010 and Ordinance 2013”, held on Saturday at the conference room of Khulna Divisional Commissioner’s Office.
Under the Protecting Human Rights Programme (PHR), Plan International Bangladesh, a non government organization, organized the programme aided by USAID.
Chaired by Angela Gomez, Executive Director of ‘Banchte Shekha’, a Jessore based NGO, the workshop was attended by Divisional Commissioner of Khulna and Additional Secretary Md. Abdus Samad as chief guest while Additional Commissioner Faruk Hossain attended as special guest.
Advocate Towhida Khondokar, Director of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association, delivered the welcome speech and presented a power point presentation while Judicial Magistrates, Women Affairs Officers, Lawyers, NGO personnel and Journalists, among others, spoke.
