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Early marriage, high dropout rate bar to women’s dev

Speakers tell nat'l workshop

Staff Correspondent
Early marriage and dropout rate of female children are still high in the country which are holding back women to move forward for their development.
Lack of security in education institutions and sexual harassment cause high dropout rate of schoolgirls accompanied by high prices of essentials.
Speakers made the observations at a national workshop on 'Shadow Report for Beijing+ 15 Assembly' organised by NGO Coalition on Beijing Process (NCBP) at Women's Voluntary Association (WVA) auditorium in the city yesterday.
The workshop aims at gathering recommendations from different stakeholders and the organisations working with women development issues for drafting primary report of the assembly scheduled to be held at UN Headquarters in New York in 2010.
Presenting a keynote paper, Women for Women President Salma Khan said the UN has recently expressed concern over the early marriage and dropout rate in the country as 63 percent girls are becoming victims of early marriage.
"Though the government has taken some initiatives to empower women for increasing their participation in parliament or local government, but here also the women are facing different difficulties," she added.
Terming the ihit&tiveof electing 45 lawmakers for women's reserved seats in parliament a significant role in empowering them in political areas, Salma said the female lawmakers from reserved seats have no specific area for work which is another setback in their development.
Raising awareness is a must to way out from different setbacks facing the women in the way of development, she added.
Addressing the workshop as the chief guest, lawmaker Sarah Begum Kabori stressed the need for arranging seminar and symposium more in rural areas to make people aware of the issues related to early marriage, dropout rate of girl child, reproductive health and environment.
Terming education a best tool to fight against all odds in society, she called on all parents to send their children, especially the girl children who are becoming victims of early marriage.
"Integration of public and private efforts is a must in empowering women," Kabori added.
Eight organisations placed their draft reports at the workshop, including Violence against women', 'Women in economics', 'Women and environment' 'Women in decision-making', 'Women in education and ICT' 'Women and health, 'Human rights of women' and 'Women in media’.
NCBP Member Secretary Mahmuda Islam conducted the workshop.