Bangladesh
Bangladesh Rape Expatriate Bengalis protest against rape
Expatriate Bengalis living in different countries of the world have expressed solidarity in the anti-rape movement. Writers, journalists, cultural activists and celebrities from around 12 countries protested in a video message.
Violence against women from Bangladesh, punishment of perpetrators, speedy trial process, change of attitude of men, family education and other issues have come up in this protest.
"We want to see the country as livable for women," said a prominent anti-rape campaigner on his Facebook page. Make every woman safe. Participating in the campaign are journalist and writer Urmi Rahman from India and research scholar Lipika Roy from Benares Hindu University, writer and columnist Ajay Dasgupta from Australia, poet and author Nazmeen Mortuza, actor Tony Diaz from UK, Kazi Maruf, former Khairul Islam Pakhi and President Nargis Akhter, writer and journalist Saraf Ahmed from Germany, lawyer and writer Nijhum Majumder from UK, human rights activist Ajanta Debray, writer and cultural activist Shah Sultana Rumi Haque, teacher from Unan University in China Shanta Maria.
Also present are Rashed Shaon, a writer and journalist from Canada, Nitupurna, a social worker, Nadeem Mahmoud, a researcher at Osaka University in Japan, Sultana Rupa, a woman entrepreneur from South Korea, Jumuna Mahmud, a journalist from Italy Tawfiqa Shahed, president and writer of the Women's Association, developed from France, and Rajshree Mumu, a cultural activist, Jeniffa Binte Jamal, a model and student from Malaysia, and Shapla, a student.
