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Measures against stalking to be included in school curriculum: Nahid

Staff Correspondent
Measures against stalking will be incorporated in the school curriculum to raise awareness among students and unite them against it, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday.
Teachers will also be trained to increase awareness and counsel their students, he said while addressing a seminar on "Developing Social Movement Against Girl Stalking and Sexual Harassment at Educational Institutes, Roads and Workplaces" organised by Steps Toward Development, an NGO, at the capital's CIRDAP auditorium.
However, he did not mention any timeline regarding the inclusion of the preventive measures against stalking in the academic curriculum.
Nahid proposed some methods which could be implemented by the Education Ministry as stalking is directly related to higher dropout rates, increase in child marriage and overall lower percentage of educated girls.
He emphasised the importance of creating a massive social movement against stalkers as well strict implementation oflaw against them.
Pointing at several examples of stalking and its consequences in the country, ShaheenAnam, executive director of Manusher Jonno Foundation said a victim of stalking will never
commit suicide if she gets adequate support from her family.
If a social movement cannot be waged timely, only formulation and implementation of laws can never ensure the freedom and security in the lives ofwomen, she added.
Academic of Dhaka University Mahbuba Nasreen said, "Instead of using the term 'eve-teasing', it should rather be termed as 'sexual harassment' or a specific kind of repression on women”, she said.
While presenting the keynotes Ranjan Karmakar, executive director of Steps, mentioned some initiatives already taken by the home and education ministries to prevent stalking.
According to a study by Steps, police was active in 50 percent of the incidents of stalking in the last three months. Cases were filed in 37 percent of the incidents where perpetrator could not be held or was bailed and in 13 percent of the times the victims did not file any cases, he added.
Speakers also talked about active participation of young population in combating the social menace. They said movements beginning at educational institutions actively led by the students would have a stronger impact in eradicating the problem.
Educationist Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury and Founder Member of Ain O Saiish Kendra Hamida Hossain also spoke at the programme.