Several rights organisations on Sunday placed suggestions to reform commissions, upholding equality and dignity of women in every sphere in society, including workplaces.
At a press conference held at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital, Socialist Women's Forum placed a 17-point suggestion to the Women Affairs Reform Commission, a press release said.
Equal inheritance rights, uniform civil code, education and employment opportunities, guarantee for equal pay at workplace, quality health (…)

Nominating women to reserved legislative seats has done little for the cause of women in Pakistan. Political parties must be made to field more winning women candidates.
In Pakistan's last general election, in February 2024, Suriya Bibi became the first woman to be elected to the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwah from Chitral, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. She contested the election as an independent candidate with no prior history of contesting elections, though the (…)

On October 7, 2023, Gaza-based armed group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200. They demanded that Israel free Palestinian prisoners from its jails and withdraw its settlers from Palestinian land. This flare-up in a chain of decades-long conflict led to another chain of reactions, with Israel's all-out war on Gaza killing more than 50,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including an overwhelming number of women and children from October 2023 to December (…)