Bodies as Sites of Struggle: Naripokkho and the Movement for Women's Rights in Bangladesh

Shireen P. Huq
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Shireen P. Huq: Member, Naripokkho

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2003, vol. 29, issue 3-4, 47-66

Abstract: Women in Bangladesh suffer both an unequal legal status with regard to many important rights and an inferior position with regard to cultural beliefs and practices. This situation is aggravated further by what appears to be a lack of social and political will to deliver justice on violations that women routinely suffer, and, on the part of women themselves, by a lack of knowledge, confidence and skills to challenge such situations. The most frequent violations that women suffer in Bangladesh have to do, first, with their personal status and cultural identity as females - they are frequently treated as minors with few rights but disproportionate responsibilities - and, second, with their legal status as unequal citizens, because of which they are routinely and systematically the recipients of lesser resources, opportunities and righ

Keywords: Naripokkho; Movement for Womens Rights; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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