eve teasing
In recent time eve-teasing (sexual harassment) has become major concern in Bangladesh. How far the law and the government have been successful in combating the issue of eve-teasing? Explain and illustrate.
19. Mar, 2012
1. INTRODUCTION:
Bangladesh, a developing country, though holding quite a small area is inundated with uncountable problems. Among these, eve-teasing, recently has become the burning issue for the country owing to its adverse effects on women, especially to the teenage girls. Eve teasing has remained a concern since many years[1]. But the fact that it has taken a massive shape is of great concern. The practice of eve-teasing is a form of sexual assault that ranges in brutality from catcalls, sexually evocative remarks, brushing in public places, to outright groping and very recently teasing by mobile phone and mobile tracking. It is an obvious fact that no conscious citizen of our country is unaware about this ugly situation created by the youth who follow delinquency. Suicide of a probable school or college girl as an outcome of eve-teasing is an obvious news whenever we scroll down the daily newspapers.
Eve-teasing has no bounds. Every other person on the streets intend to assault women ranging from rich to poor, being literate to being uneducated. It is very sad that, a healthy number of educated boys from reputed families are growing lust towards this practice. According to the report from ‘Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association’ (BNWLA) the probable eve-teasers on the streets of Bangladesh are teenage boys, traffic police, rickshaw pullers, bus drivers, supervisors or colleagues of the working women. Statistics suggests [[2]], 32% of the eve teasers are students, 33% are middle-aged men while 35% are anti-socials.
A common scenario of defining how women are sexually harassed would be the fact that these teasers wait in schools mostly, in colleges or they just sit outside the houses and as soon as they cite the girls walk past them
19. Mar, 2012
1. INTRODUCTION:
Bangladesh, a developing country, though holding quite a small area is inundated with uncountable problems. Among these, eve-teasing, recently has become the burning issue for the country owing to its adverse effects on women, especially to the teenage girls. Eve teasing has remained a concern since many years[1]. But the fact that it has taken a massive shape is of great concern. The practice of eve-teasing is a form of sexual assault that ranges in brutality from catcalls, sexually evocative remarks, brushing in public places, to outright groping and very recently teasing by mobile phone and mobile tracking. It is an obvious fact that no conscious citizen of our country is unaware about this ugly situation created by the youth who follow delinquency. Suicide of a probable school or college girl as an outcome of eve-teasing is an obvious news whenever we scroll down the daily newspapers.
Eve-teasing has no bounds. Every other person on the streets intend to assault women ranging from rich to poor, being literate to being uneducated. It is very sad that, a healthy number of educated boys from reputed families are growing lust towards this practice. According to the report from ‘Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association’ (BNWLA) the probable eve-teasers on the streets of Bangladesh are teenage boys, traffic police, rickshaw pullers, bus drivers, supervisors or colleagues of the working women. Statistics suggests [[2]], 32% of the eve teasers are students, 33% are middle-aged men while 35% are anti-socials.
A common scenario of defining how women are sexually harassed would be the fact that these teasers wait in schools mostly, in colleges or they just sit outside the houses and as soon as they cite the girls walk past them