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Establish Gender Equality, Women Human
Rights and Good Governance:
Human rights and fundamental freedoms are the
inherent rights of every human being. Since states of the world have
recognized and affirmed faith and commitment on the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the responsibility goes to the government to translate
their faith and commitment into reality. Practically, the people worldwide
are deprived of the assertion of their human rights and fundamental
freedoms to a great extent.
Bangladesh is not an exception to the prevailing
human rights scenario worldwide. In Bangladesh, women constitute almost
half the total population (48.5%), 85% of them live in the rural areas and
are usually kept apart from men other than their family. Here the men
dominate women in both rural and urban areas, regardless of their class
identity. They virtually do not enjoy the right to take part in decision
making, to work outside home, to express their say in marriage, for free
movement, for equal share of property, guardianship and control over
resources and body. They are domesticated and limited to cook and feed,
bringing up children, taking care of the elderly people in the family and
in other household activities. In its 3 years of journey, Rainbow Nari O
Shishu Kalyan Foundation has firmly followed some popular contemporary
views - development is gender blind; the trickle-down benefits of
development should equally reach women and men; all households should
enjoy the same benefits and the same constraints etc.
Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kalyan Foundation has its own
vision towards promoting a just society in which both men and women can
work together to form institution to attain a greater degree of
self-reliance in managing their own affairs, resources and achieve a
higher and sustainable standard of living.
Gender awareness and women’s legal right activities
under Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kalyan Foundation are initiated with the
objectives of increasing social awareness on gender related issues and to
extend the legal supports to its target beneficiaries to establish women's
legal rights for eliminating all types of discrimination against women.
Women beneficiaries of the organization are now more conscious than before
of their rights concerning women’s legal rights, dowry, divorce, demerits
of early marriage and unregistered marriage, mohorana (dowar), polygamy,
inheritance and ownership of property, family planning etc.
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