Violation of Women’s rights in Domestic and Working level in Bangladesh

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prelude
Letter Of Submission		i
Approval		ii
Dedication		iii
Acknowledgement		iv
Abstract		v
Abbreviations		vi
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 Statement of Research Monograph	01
1.2 Research Question	03
1.3 Objective Of The Study	03
1.4 Justification	03
1.5 Bangladesh At A Glance	05
1.6 Methodology of the study	06
1.7 Limitation of the work	06
CHAPTER TWO  BASIC CONCEPT OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS PERCEPTION ABOUT WOMEN’S STATUS
2.1 Nature of Women Rights in Bangladesh Constitution	07
2.2 Nature of Women Rights in some statute	07
2.3 Nature of Women Rights in Muslim laws	08
2.4 Nature of Women Rights in UN Conventions	08
CHAPTER-THREE DIMENSION OF VIOLENCE IN WORKING LEVEL AGAINST WOMEN IN BANGLADESH
3.0 Forms of Violence Against Women in Bangladesh	09
3.1 Physical abuse	09
3.2 Sexual abuse	09
3.3 Psychological abuse	09
3.4. Economic abuse	10
3.5 Violence Against Women in Workplace of Bangladesh	11
3.6 Reasons behind Violence Against Women	14
CHAPTER FOUR: WOMEN RIGHTS UNDER STATUTORY LAWS IN BANGLADESH
4.1 The Divorce Act-1869	20
4.2 The Muslim Family Court Ordiance-1985	21
4.3 The Dowry Prohibition Act-1980	22
4.4 The Guardian and wards Act-1890	22
4.5 Acid control Act-2002 and Acid Aparad Dhaman Ain-2002	23
4.6 The Muslim dissolution of marriage Act-1939	23
4.7 Nari-o-shishu Nirjaton damon ain-2000 amended 2003	24
4.8 The Penal Code-1860	24
4.9 Eve –Teasing Prevention Act-2010	25
4.10 Some Important Case Analysis on Family Laws in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh	26
Case Reference -1	26
Case Reference -2	29
Case Reference -3	32
CHAPTER FIVE: CAUSE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN DOMESTIC AND WORK LEVEL IN BANGLADESH
5.1 Introductory statement	36
5.2 Rape	37
5.3 Dowry-related violence	38
5.4 Acid violence	39
5.5 Sexual harassment/stalking	39
5.6 Domestic Violence	39
5.7 Honor Killing	40
5.8 Female genital mutilation	41
5.9 Force Marriage	41
5.10 Forced sterilization and forced abortion	41
5.11 Violence by the police and other authority figure	45
5.12 Eve-teasing by the male through words	42
5.13 Some Recent Important Steps Towards Ensuring Rights or women	42
5.14 A Proposal of Unified Family Cod in Bangladesh by Committee of Bangladesh	43
5.15 Opinion of Law Commission; on the Study report for Marriage, Inheritance and Family Laws in Bangladesh towards a Common Family Code	44
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
6. 1Summary	47
6.2 Findings	47
6.3 Recommendation	49
6.4 Concluding statement	52
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reference	53-55

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