Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Activities Galore in March 2009
March 8 is celebrated as the International Women’s Day every year. This year 19 campaign allies In Bangladesh planned events from March 1-20 using International Women’s Day as a peg for its activities. During this period, the allies managed to mobilise 44,023 Change Makers.
The activities included: press conferences, rallies of people and vans, forming human chains, organising theme fairs, door to door campaigning, tournaments, displaying campaign posters on rickshaws, street theatre, folk dances, and display of posters and distribution of campaign literature.
Young Journalist Forum, Chittagong, Bangladesh
The Young Journalist Forum in Chittagong in Bangladesh has been associated with the campaign since 2007. Their efforts to raise attention on different aspects of violence against women through programmes in their educational institutions need special mention. They have managed to gather attention, support and participation of a cross section of people.
Women’s Club, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
Laila Arzumand, one of the member’s of District Alliance, in Dinajpur, Bangladesh has banded housewives in the area together to form a women’s club and unite under the banner of ‘We Can’. Started in 2007, the club has gained wide membership and allows women to discuss their problems within homes, families and the society without fear of being reprimanded or judged.