Sara Hossain and Shireen Pervin Huq on recent GBV cases in Bangladesh

Sara Hossain, Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates, and member of the Bureau of South Asians for Human Rights, speaks on the recent cases in Bangladesh. Emphasizing the need to reflect upon the prevalence of nineteenth-century colonial laws, Sara Hossain shared current demands of the ongoing rape law reform movement in Bangladesh. She further noted that the way in which women’s movement frames its arguments and the way in which we make our alliances are particularly critical.
Shireen Pervin Huq, Dhaka-based women’s rights activist and founder member of Naripokkho, speaks on the recent cases in Bangladesh. While noting the importance of law in telling the possible from the not possible and the right from the not right, Shireen Pervin Huq pressed upon the need to tackle the culture of misogyny in case of violence against women. Even as she spoke about this being an intergenerational fight, she highlighted the problem with women’s movements’ overemphasis on prosecution and punishment.
Sapan seminar Gender Violence in South Asia: Feminise to Humanise - eighth in the monthly series: Imagine! Neighbours in Peace, a title borrowed from unpublished Chowk.com anthology, 2005
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Video edited by Hamza Arif, Naya Daur