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How You Can Help
Your support is important. Help us SUSTAIN our projects and BUILD new ones.
Make a long term difference to educating girls.
Make a unique contribution to our programme of work.
Marufa suffered in silence while her father beat her mother.
After joining the BKAF girl’s alliance, Marufa is not silent anymore. Learn more about Marufa’s experience.
From a domestic worker and victim of violence to school student and doctor in the making, read how the PHREB girl’s alliance network BKAF has helped change Rita Akhter’s life.
Since December 2006, our Tulip School helped 600 girls learn basic Bengali, English, maths and life skills.
With more confidence and knowledge they are better equipped to face the challenges of early marriage, eve teasing,
domestic violence and discrimination. Read how PHREB’s Tulip School has helped Nishi Paul change her life.
My name is Lily Barua, Headmaster, Kushum Kumari City Corporation Girls High School,
Chittagong. Since 2004, PHREB has been educating our students and teachers about human rights and gender equality.
They organize series of programs such as lessons for students and teachers, cultural functions, theatres, sports and debates.
Read how PHREB school program helps her school reducing girls drop out rates and early marriages.
Imams in Bangladesh are more likely favour the position of men when making religious verdicts in rural Bangladesh,
but this is slowly changing. Imams belonging to PHREB’s Imams Movement for Women’s Rights are letting go of their male bias and
standing up for women. Read how Imam Fazlur Rahman declared a verdict in favour of domestic violence victim Rena.
Since 2005, PHREB has been motivating local government leaders to stand for the victims of domestic violence,
early marriage and eve teasing in their areas. Some elect commissioners have joined in the community platform
"Social Committee for the Prevention of Violence against Women". Read how this committee prevents violence against
women and ensure social justice for the victims.
PHREB unites boys and girls, parents and community leaders to combat violence against women. Girls who belong to the BKAF work in their communities with peers and parents to build public awareness of gender based violence, safe water and sanitation, reproductive health and AIDS. Read how BKAF members assisted 12-year-old Rekha with the dilemma of early marriage.
Picture withheld to protect her indentity. Shima (not her real name) is a university student. Her teacher and friends raped her and she didn’t tell anyone. One evening she attended an adolescent girls and young women's motivational dialogue organized by BKAF and felt motivated to speak out against what happened. She shared her story with PHREB staff. Read how we helped her to get justice.
Picture withheld to protect her indentity. Reba, 15 (not her real name) is a victim of gang rape. The rapists violated her for five days in a locked room. Learn how PHREB’s legal aid and counselling program supported her to get justice, and get her life back.
PHREB has received 1854 greeting cards from the students of the Netherlands till March 31, 2009. These cards have encouraged many abused girls, including Rahima, who was the victim a gang rape. The perpetrators wanted to kill her by throwing her raped body into the Bay of Bengal but luckily she was saved. Rahima was shown albums containing these beautiful cards, to which she said, "I am so happy because of these wonderful cards". At 24, she is a traumatised women however she is getting mental strength from seeing these beautiful cards.
Latest News
On Friday 1 May 2009 in 120 mosques in Chittagong, more than 150,000 people heard Imams talk about the rights of female domestic workers and violence against women.
In the first quarter of 2009, our School Team educated more than 78,000 students, 1400 teachers and 2000 parents.
PHREB Director Mr. Faridul Alam will meet representatives of government and non-government organizations in Holland to explore possible partnership between PHREB and Dutch Organizations.
The News Paper Kaishur Avilash will be published in May 2009.
Her Excellency Ms. Henny de Vries, First Secretary (Gender and Governance), Royal Netherlands Embassy in Bangladesh, paid a daylong visit to PHREB on 8 June 2008. She visited PHREB Tulip School. School Workshop and BKAF Programs.
The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a set of guidelines defining sexual misdemeanours to prevent any kind of physical, mental or sexual harassment of women, girls and children at their workplaces, educational institutions and other public places including roads across the country.
Latest Events
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Major Activities planned for the month of May 2009.
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Bangladesh
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E: phreb@phreb.org
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