Broad based awareness needed to curb gender violence

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Prime minister Sheik Hasina yesterday put accentuation on making mass awareness to the public to take out bias and violence against women saying that just establishing laws isn't sufficient to complete this.

"Everybody must recall a certain something: authorizing laws just won't help stop brutality and abberations against ladies... we need to make mindfulness in the public eye. To get that going, ladies and men need to cooperate," she said.

(PM) was attending to a program on International Women's Day at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka.

The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs organized the occasion managed by Meher Afroze Chumki, director of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Women and Children Affairs Ministry.

UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh Mia Seppo was available as an exceptional visitor while service Secretary Kamrun Nahar conveyed the appreciated location.

The leader and ladies and kids issues serve said that we should recall that no general public can be fabricated leaving half of its populace behind.

"For that, we additionally need to cooperate... this is the most dire issue," she included.

Communicating her profound disdain over assault of kids and ladies, Hasina said this is particularly preposterous without a doubt. "The individuals who carry out this kind of deplorable wrongdoings are foes of the general public," she said.

She asked all to plug the names, locations and pictures of attackers legitimately so individuals treat them with disdain.

"The lawful course is additionally there, yet this issue not just exists in Bangladesh, it torment progressively created nations also," she said.

The head administrator asked all to stay alert against oppression young lady kids also. "We as a whole need to work unitedly on the off chance that we need to manufacture this general public."

Reviewing the job of Father of the Nation in maintaining the nobility of ladies, Hasina said Bangabandhu guaranteed break even with rights for everybody in all circles of life.

While discussing Bangabandhu's different advances taken for recovery of those moms and sisters who were tormented by the Pakistani occupation powers and their neighborhood associates, she said numerous guardians did not acknowledge their little girls who were unfortunate casualties amid the 1971 Liberation War.

Hasina said the accomplishments of ladies can be seen wherever in Bangladesh.

She referenced that the nation's ladies are presently in working in larger amount positions in all areas like organization, legal executive, training, just as resistance and law authorization.

The PM likewise expounded different advances taken by her legislature for the improvement and welfare of ladies.

About the "Lifetime Contribution for Women Empowerment Award" she got from Institute of South Asian Women (ISAW), Hasina stated, she devoted the honor to the womenfolk of the world incorporating those in Bangladesh.

A narrative on ladies strengthening and their accomplishments in Bangladesh was screened at the program.

Prior, the leader circulated "Joyeeta" grants among remarkable ladies for their accomplishments throughout everyday life.

Afterward, she went to the social program and visited ladies business people's slows down.

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