ISDE Bangladesh: Road March to end Violence Against Women held at Chakaria:Demanding Political and Social Protest against Sexual Harassment

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Road March to end Violence Against Women held at Chakaria:Demanding Political and Social Protest against Sexual Harassment

Road March to end Violence Against Women held at Chakaria

Demanding Political and Social Protest against Sexual Harassment

Strong political commitment by the political leaders and members of the youth organizations are essential to Change the attitudes to think a women is also a human being, which also help to stop eve teasing and other sexual harassment to the young teenage and women. It is alarming for us eve teasing and sexual harassment become serious social crime amongst our society. Many young women become stop to goes school, collage and work places due to sexual harassment. Political organization works for the whole community where 50% are women. If 50% population forces to stop their normal mobility, the whole community will loses to get progress of the community and advancement of the nation will hamper. If the women’s mobility become stop, the advancement process will stop down. So, the political leaders should raise awareness of the bad impact of the sexual harassments and eve teasing to their supporters, young teenagers and whole community. The political leaders also need to train on about the danger situation of the sexual harassments. Sexual harassments are now not only social issue it also a political issue and all the progressive parties have to works to change the behavior and attitudes towards women. These were said by the speakers at the road march and gathering at various spots of the Chakaria Upazila under Cox’s Bazar district. The Road Show is organized to raise demand political social protest against sexual harassments to mark the International Fortnight on Violence Against women (VAW) on last 15th December. ISDE Bangladesh with the association with local Upazila administration, Upazila Social Entrepreneur Council and Women Activist Group organized the events.

UP Chairman ATM Ziaudding Chowdhury addressing

The Road Show (Sanghati Jatra) is inaugurated by the local freedom fighter and central leader of Bangladesher Workers Party Haji Bashirul Alam, amongst others Chairperson Upazila Women Activist Group and women leader Umme Kushum Minu, women leaders Lannatul Bakeya Rekha, Awami league leaders S M Manjur Hossain, Students leader Ashikur Rahman, teacher of BN School and Collage Ekramul Hoque, Sindabab Kamal, Labi Das from Chakria Sangit Nikton lead the road march. Among other Giash Uddin, Progarmme Manager, Sk Azad Kamal Tipu assisted the march.

CTG Press Club President inaguarted the Sanghati Jatra(Road Show)

The road march going round the various parts of the Upazila and conducted cultural functions, gathering and street meetings. The local political leaders, teachers, journalist, students and youth leaders, women leaders, local UP Chairman, members shows their solidarity about the demands. Some of them are took part in the road procession, human chain. Later is the road march finished at the Chiringa station Chittagong Cox’s Bazar highway with cultural function.

Reported:
Sk. Azad Kamal Tipu
Deputy Program Manager
ISDE Bangladesh
Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar

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Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh is a local non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, voluntary, social development organization working in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Rangamati, Kagrachari and Bandarban hill districts. ISDE Bangladesh was established in 1992, with the initiation of some like-minded social workers to serve the socio economically depressed & backward groups in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. It seeks to create self-sustaining rural communities through process of battling against rural drawback and the social economic energizing of the poor; such a process involves a number of suitable social and economic activities. ISDE Bangladesh is instrument in assisting the poor in working for their own developments instead of being the passive receive of it. It works in the identified rural and urban areas targeting sustainable social change that will contribute in ensuring a better life for the vulnerable people, with special emphasize to women and children. ISDE Bangladesh works adopting the target group development approach and most of the groups are associated with women members. It implements its all activities targeting on purpose to protect rights of the target women and children. It continues its all efforts to ISDE Bangladesh’s commitment through mainstreaming gender in a participatory development process. It collaborates with different local, national and international NGO’s and Government Departments in realizing their common goal of women empowerment, human rights, gender, environment, and education, rural and urban development. It envisages a society with improved environment human dignity and security. Its mission is guided by people’s aspirations that significantly contributes in changing the existing socio-economic status of target groups; facilitate the need-based services focusing to reducing gender discrimination and improving environmental status that will yield poverty reduced better life by enhancing people's capacities, initiatives and commitment followed by the principles of human rights, governance, gender and equity. Strengthen effective people’s participation at all stages of program designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation harnessing local and external resources that will contribute greatly in sustainable social change. ISDE Bangladesh works in line with Target Group Approach as well as Community Approach followed by the principles of human rights, good governance, gender sensitivity, equity and participation targeting poverty reduction. It gives equal emphasis to ISDE Bangladesh scheduled castes and ethnic groups as target groups. ISDE Bangladesh grew to its present level by responding to the needs of the people. From 1993 ISDE started moving to a more exhaustive approach with resources and financial assistance from a number of development partners. ISDE Bangladesh has been gradually expanding its activities in more remote and neglected areas of the country.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Road March to end Violence Against Women held at Chakaria:Demanding Political and Social Protest against Sexual Harassment

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