Recents Activities

Combating Gender-Based Violence Project (CGBV)

Gender-based violence / Violence against Women (GBV/VAW)’ concept highlights the fact that violence against women is an expression of power inequalities between women and men.The community typically groups these abuses into three categories such as Family Violence, Community Violence and State Violence.

Bangladesh is a male dominant society, where the social institutions, at all levels, are controlled by patriarchal creed. The existence of acute gender inequalities, entrenched in the overall structure of Bangladesh, does not allow girls and women to realize their potential. In fact, they are confined within the gender stereotypic expressive roles as daughter, wife, and mother and are kept inside the four walls of home. Different kinds of female abuse and exploitation activities through oral, physical, or mental tortures, e.g. dowry, sexual harassment, acid throwing, and physical torture happened in all over Bangladesh. Jhenaidah District does not it exceptional while high rate suicide, 72% women, and girls suffer multiple forms of violence including domestic violence (BBS, 2015). The problem of GBV/VAW cannot be addressed fully without the involvement of all the actors, e.g. police, judiciary, doctors, lawmakers, Union Parishad, Upazila and Zilla Parishad members, youths, teachers, religious leaders directly or indirectly responsible for the issue. Hence AID Foundation had initiated the project named Combating Gender-Based Violence Project (CGBV) supported by MJF since July 2017 for two years duration.