Organization for Women’s Development in Bangladesh (OWDEB)

To build a society which fulfills all fundamental rights of the deprived people where Social justice, peace, harmony and ecological balance prevails.

Ensure a qualitative achievement of women’s equal right, establishment of her dignity and empowerment through their own participation towards a democratic society.

Ensuring participation of both men and women for promoting Democracy, Human rights and establishes a situation of socio-economic and cultural justice for achieving a sustainable democratic society.

In 1990, Amartya Sen observed that the world was short of 100 million women because of excess female mortality in India, China and South Korea. The next year, Ansley Coale put the figure at around 60 million for China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and West Asia and Egypt only.

After 16 years still we read the information as followed :

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY ???

(11 apr 2006) Magistrate: The charge is that you assaulted a person.

Accused: But it was not a person sir, it was my wife. In France, a woman dies every four days after being beaten by her partner.

Ref : http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/130719/66/74337

At the same time there is another scenerio as :

SEPARATE AGENCY FOR WOMEN URGED

(10 apr 2006) As the member nations of the UN discuss reforms at the United Nations, there is a strong demand to create a separate agency to deal with women's issues. Currently these issues are dispersed among several UN bodies - UNIFEM, UNFPA and many others.

Ref : http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/130595/66/74337

THE LAND IS OURS! HOW INDIAN WOMEN FARMERS ARE BECOMING A FORCE FOR CHANGE !!

(11 apr 2006) Women farmers have become a dominant force throughout India, as more and more men migrate to earn money and others issues

Ref : http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/130707/66/74337

Each token example is self explanatory in the issue of Women`s Right promotion and protection.

OWDEB has an initiative to spread its essence to protest and protect women from the cruel shadow of Domestic violence from its early stage. Violence against women is universal till now. It injures or kills one in three women across the world.

The right to gender equality underpins all OWDEB’s work.

We feel proud that we are the part of the regional WE CAN campaign in South Asia, with Oxfam that aims to recruit five million volunteer 'change makers' to help mobilise 50 million people and bring about a big change in attitudes towards women.

“We have taken an oath to be Change Makers in the ‘We Can’ campaign hoping to bring change and end violence against women. “ --- A Commitment of our stakeholder in Chittagong always inspire us to do more and more work to create a gender friendly environment for our women and men also.

Our vision and present situation is in a great socio-political-cultural turbulence because

WE KNOW WOMEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE BUT
MILLIONS OF WOMEN IN BANGLADESH
LIVE WITH ABUSE AND VIOLENCE EVERYDAY

Our participation in the South Asia regional campaign “ to end violence against women” will help:

	Strengthen the movement and transform the lives of millions of women in the region
	Change values, attitudes and behavior that discriminate against women and girls and encourage violence against them Demand action by governments, communities and individuals to end all violence against women.

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