PHREB Mosque based Women's Rights Campaign reaches 300,000 people every week

2009-08-19 15:16:35

Imams for Women Rights Network members speak about Islam and women's rights, women's right to inherent property, education, health care services, reproductive health, maternal health, safe water and breast feeding. Since 2005, Imams for Women's Rights Campaign has been organizing various innovative programs such as Mosque based Friday speeches, community based religious seminars and dialogues. They mobilize men against child marriage, child pregnancy, eve teasing and domestic violence. This is an emerging network of Imams which started with 14 Imams and as of July 2009 it has 185 members.
The cause is supported by ICCO the Netherlands. For more information, please contact Mr. Faridul Alam, Executive Director, PHREB on farid@phreb.org

Young Women Summit 2010 demands Safe Schools for Girls

2009-08-27 11:01:16

BKAF, a coalition of adolescent girls, organized young women summit on 8 March 2010 to celebrate international women's day 2010 at the Theater Institute Chittagong.
30 Representatives from Chittagong, Hill Tracts, Cox's Bazar participated in this adolescent's summit.
Representatives from the government and non government institutions and police participated in this summit.

PHREB entered into partnership with Swedish Amnesty Fund

2009-08-27 11:34:27

The STOP Violence against Adolescent Girls project aims to Building Human Rights and Gender equality awareness and understandings among people regardless of age, sex and socio-economic conditions, thereby helping to create a society free of violence towards young women and one that acknowledges access to young women’s human rights, and practices gender equality.
28 October 2009 PHREB and Swedish Amnesty signed an agreement to enter into a formal financial partnership.

Schoolgirl burnt to death by stalker

2009-08-27 15:51:00

Tobarak, who lives in the same village - - Kona Bhawal -- swooped on Pinky at around 7:30am when none of her parents or siblings was home.
Pinky, a class-ten student, was studying for examinations when she saw him on the doorstep with a one-litre plastic bottle full of kerosene.
Before she could move, he had emptied the kerosene bottle on her and threw a lit matchstick setting her ablaze, Latifa said quoting from the statement her daughter gave before death.
Flames swallowed up Pinky in no time.
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The hospital beds have been increased to 50 but manpower has not increased The Medical Service is disrupted in Moheshkhali Health Complex

2009-09-13 14:51:09

The number of hospital beds in the health centre of Moheshkhali Upzilla has been increased from 31 to 50. However there remains a significant shortfall in all staff ranging from Doctors and Nurses to Health Assistants required both to meet government standards as well as the needs of the centre’s patients.
The essential services of radiology and Emergency Transportation (Ambulance) remain unused for years. As a result access to comprehensive medical services remained a dream for the island sub- district’s 400 000 people. The local Sub-district Health Officer has notified higher authorities in written statements so many times as yet they have not responded to these concerns.
In 2007, the beds in the Moheshkhali health complex increased 31 to 50 and infrastructures were developed accordingly. The Government standards for a 50 bed hospital are 28 Doctors, 14 Nurses and 27 Health Assistants and an additional 101 employees in supportive services. However at Present 93 positions are vacant in the Moheshkhali health complex.
Current staffing of the complex is 8 Doctors and 1 nurse. Current vacancies in the health complex are in the disciplines of surgery, Medicine, anesthesia, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Dental surgery, 5 assistant surgeons, an accountant, storekeeper, 3 office assistants and 6 Doctors assistants and nursing caretaker.

PHREB Sports Program gains international attention

2009-10-26 10:11:27

Please read the Q&A with our girls from BKAF Sports for Women's Empowerment Program which has published in the Fair Games News website.
Please log on to the following link and leave your valuable comments to encourage Bangladeshi girls: http://fairgamenews.com/