Posted in Rural Women, tagged ASA, Bandhan, Forbes, Grameen Bank on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
KOLKATA: What started as a fledgling organisation five years ago at Konnagar in West Bengal has now bagged the honour
Posted in ICT for Development, Rural Women, tagged Empowerment, Girl, ICT on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As in many developing nations, girls in Bangladesh are still not enjoying equal educational, economic, and social opportunities. ICT has opened up a new door of opportunities for girls in Bangladesh. Girls need to access to ICT for the same reasons as boys. They need to learn ICT skills for their educational achievements, personal development, [...]
Posted in Rural Women, South Asia, tagged Sexual Health, UNFPA, Women on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Hyderabad, India (Oct 29): A four-country UNFPA study released today at the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Hyderabad warns that sex selection and son preference in the Asian region will “affect the stability of the marriage system”.The global impact of this sex ratio scenario will impact families. With [...]
Posted in Press Release, Rural Women, tagged 4th APCRSH, Sexual Health on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
New Delhi: The third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) shows that significant proportions of all married women have experienced physical and sexual violence perpetrated by their husbands. But as a recent study shows, many of the young men, who could be termed as `marital rapists’, are in need of basic information about sexuality.
But how can [...]
Posted in Press Release, Rural Women on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Violence against women is one of society’s universally decried ills. However, to move from platitudes to action and improvement, a clear understanding of the problem is required. It is important that the extent, nature and root causes of such violence are well-documented. By analysing such information, concrete steps can be taken, both legal and charitable, [...]
Posted in Rural Women on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
An ultra-poor woman is making soil burner as a part of her Income generating activities. It’s an environment friendly burner and general people used to buy it to cook their daily foods. Photograph by Md. Shahidul Islam/voiceofsouth.org from Sirajganj. All rights reserved.
Posted in Rural Women, Snapshot on July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Sweets” is a symbol food to celebrate any good things. Specially in South Asia, we love to eat sweets on any good occasion. This is a picture that showing two rural lady preparing hand made paper based packets to carry sweets. Non Governments organization SAP-Bangladesh providing micro credit loans to rural ladies to do such [...]
Posted in Knowledge for Development, Opinion, Rural Women on July 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Child marriage” is an acute problem in Bangladesh, being largely symptomatic of the extent of poverty which exists. And the suffering of a child after becoming a house wife in early age is really horrible.
A few months ago, I heard a story from on of my media colleges about Khadija Khatun who is staying in [...]
Posted in Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on July 10, 2007 | No Comments »
‘’I thought many times, whether God created me only for sufferings! When my husband cried out from chest pain, it became unbearable for me like a beloved wife. I used to go from door to door to borrow some money to buy medicines for my husband. But my relatives and neighbors were reluctant to lend [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Mukhara, Bangladesh: I have an intention to visit villages to find out the rural development. As part of this, few weeks ago I have visited a rural hinterland village named Mukhara to see the present state of Helena.
Helena? You may ask me question that, who is she? Well, Helena is a Village Phone Lady who [...]
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