A group of students of Islamia Dakhil Madrassa at Laxmipur union under Dowarabazar upazila of Sunamganj on Sunday staged demonstration, demanding justice for two fellow students of the institution, as they were severely injured in an attack by a teen gang for protesting eve-teasing.
This is not only a story of Dowarabazar upazila but many of our girls ended up their lives by committing suicide after violation, humiliation and sexual harassment. Members of juvenile gang are constantly stalking, humiliating and harassing female students on their way to schools or other educational institutions.
The government is working to stop eve-teasing. But, many female students are still becoming victims of eve-teasing and violence across the country.
For ensuring social safety for female students, the authorities concerned must stop eve teasing and violence. Family, society and the state have to be sincere and extend their assistance in this regard.
Female students
are still becoming
victims of
eve-teasing
After being violated, stalked, humiliated and harassed sexually, the girls get shocked and frustrated that led them to commit suicide. There is a law to control such violence and eve teasing, but it has not been controlled as police do not take action against eve-teasers, local hoodlums and terrors properly.
Urging the deputy commissioners to take appropriate legal measures to stop violence, eve-teasing, stalking repression and discriminatory behaviour on girls, the Prime Minister several times instructed them to conduct mobile courts immediately to this end. But the prime minister’s strict warnings seem to have had no effect on the incidence of sexual harassment and humiliation of girls.
Now, our girls are studying at school, college and university while women are playing a strong role in making decisions in their family. But they are still being harassed and humiliated by the members of young gangsters under the very nose of the local public representatives and law enforcement agencies across the country almost every day.
Sometime girls’ photographs were being clicked and uploaded to social networking sites by these gangsters. Therefore, a nationwide crackdown on juvenile gang members will have to be launched immediately for ensuring girls’ safe movement, maintaining peace, discipline and stability through eliminating eve-teasing and harassment.