Eve teasing

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    Young woman often face verbal abuse and taunts in Bangladesh, and sometimes stalked by colleagues at school or other young men. Eve-teasing in Bangladesh has taken such a heavy tool on the country’s women that the education ministry there has voted to have an “Eve-Teasing Protection Day”. The announcement was made after the increasing concern over the worrying number of girls and women who have recently committed suicide in the country to escape eve-teasing, a cuphemism for sexual harassment. Some young women, unable to bear the repeated insults, have even gone so far as to commit suicide, it takes weeks before these cases can be heard in the normal criminal court and the convection rate is said to be very low. (ANI ) Mobile courts in Bangladesh have been empowered to prosecute people accused of sexually harassing women, or Eve-teasing, officials have said. According to the BBC, anyone convicted to sexual harassment or stalking of women will face a year in jail or a fine of 70 dollars or both. ”In a country where the prime minister (Sheikh Hasina ), foreign minister (Dipu moni ), Home minister ( Sahara Khatun ), agriculture minister (Motia Chowdhury ) and the leader of the opposition ( Begum Khaleda  Zia ) are female, women and girls cannot walk on the streets, use public transport, or go to school, shops, parks or other public places without often being ogled, taunted, harassed, sexually molested, groped and assaulted –and in some cases, attacked with acid, abducted and raped, “ The daily star Lamented in a commentary Saturday.

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