Is it Poltical Commitment

Speakers in a conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh stressed on poltical commitment of the Government to stop child trafficking. Daily Star reports on December 21, 2006 that "a total of 71 people have been punished since the year 2004 due to their involvement in child trafficking and 394 have been arrested". This number seems low as a lot of trafficking cases go unreported to the Authority. Read more!

Domestic Violance in Bangladesh

Children are at risk when they face domestic violence. In Bangladesh, we still ignore domestic violence as a social problem. Read this article at Daily Star journal on domestic violence. The author, a law student in Bangladesh, writes in his article, "Almost all of civil and criminal laws of Bangladesh deal with violence against women committed within general community by strangers with few exceptions e.g. dissolution of marriage, dowry related violence, dower, maintenance, guardianship and custody. Present laws are ignorant about issues of sexual abuse e.g. marital rape, verbal or psychological or economic abuse caused by domestic violence and also fail to provide adequate remedy. High probability of non-conviction of accused under existing laws lowers rate of filing cases comparing total incidents of domestic violence". Definitely, we've to go a long way to counter domestic violence. Read more!