Around 4 percent of live-in househelps in Bangladesh are abused sexually, while 21 percent suffer from physical violence and 61 percent are subjected to verbal harassment by their employers and family members, found a recent study.
Sexual abuse can be the most traumatising experience a child has to go through. The memory of how helpless they felt, to be too young to raise their voices haunts them for the rest of their lives;
"Our class teacher used to grab my hair and shake my head grabbing it."
On 18 May, 2022. A young woman was physically assaulted for her attire at the Narsingdi station while on her way to Dhaka to sit for an exam.
Rajshahi University students form a human chain protesting physical harassment of female students by unknown people on the campus.
Jagannath University authorities suspend four of its students for allegedly harassing a female student on the campus.
