The Daily IIJ

By Jahangir Alam Akash, After some moment whole over the world would be celebrating the International women day on 8th March. This year 2010 is the 100th year of the International day for women. But, still women have been facing great challenge in most of the countries of the world. Many countries of the world have no actual human rights. And the women rights can’t imagine there. Women rights are the human rights.

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Over 30 All Peoples Congress (APC) party women wing has on Monday denounced the purported 1st lady commonly known as Banya Fakei 1st lady.

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Bethlehem is a historical place. It’s the birthplace of Jesus and also an ancient city of the Church. This makes it a holy site for Christians around the world. Bethlehem is a popular city during Christmas. At one time, there was peace in Bethlehem, and Arabs and Jews had a good friendship. But, now there is an ongoing battle between both Jews and Arabs, and the wonderful time of peace that existed 2,000 years ago is gone. Why is there fighting there among men? When will peace come again?

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Many women in Bangladesh suffer from rape, gang rape, murder, torture and acid throwing. The position of women in Bangladesh is vulnerable. Even though Bangladesh has an elected government, the difficulties facing women haven’t ended. Violence against women is a common feature in Bangladesh, and women face various problems under the system of repression.

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There has been growing debate about the global financial crisis and whether Africa can really take advantage of the situation and the challenges of the continent in this regard. This however necessitated the World Bank and Inwent to organize this year’s International Business Forum under the theme “Global Crisis – Africa Challenges”

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We are living in a modern world, where the women are equal to men. More often we see modern women successfully running their own businesses and raising their children at the same time. Although the journalistic profession is dangerous and demands knowledge and professional skills, more and more women in the entire world choose this [...]

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A white paper to integrate gender sensitive policies into the Republic of Sierra Leone Army Forces (RSLAF) will soon be initiated.

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Senior advisor and programme manger of the United Nations development programme, UNDP, has called for proceedings and convictions on sexual and other gender-based violence (SGBV) related cases to be publicized.
Nana K. Busia Jr. made the call during a one-day consultative meeting on ‘Sustained Publicization of Proceedings and Convictions of SGBV’ at the Hotel Barmoi in [...]

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Four women raped and five sexually assaulted by a group of men at the opposition SLPP headquarters in Freetown. According to one of the Victims she said they where inside the building when a group of men entered the building demanding for money.” we told them we don’t have money and they continued to beat [...]

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It may seem futile to say that in Africa gender equality is quite a dream. It may seem so because every African knows that this is an imossible challenge to put at the same level men and women. It may seem so because every African knows and witnesses every day this truth.

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