Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Special Report: Suicide in Bangladesh

This is link to DI website where our report was published http://www.dispatchesinternational.org/?p=990
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Editor’s Note: The following was a study conducted by students at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, led by a faculty member,  between 2011-2013. Due to the sensitivity of the issue, names of interviewees have been omitted.
Lead author: Varuni Ganepola*
Contributors: Afsana Sadiq Atuly, Jyoti Pokharel, Neha Rauniyar, Sorya Seang, Dechen Zangmo, and Srijana Shrestha

Sunday, October 13, 2013

A Marriage is Everything in a Woman’s life


 
Merak Community and the people
In the summer of 2012, I along with my batch mates Bhutanese friends of Asian University for Women, were involved with one of the remotest community 'Merak, Trashigang' conducting a qualitative research work on 'Understanding Teenage Pregnancy' in Mreak. Meeting and interviewing teenage mothers and hearing their stories was heart breaking. Below is a story told by 65
 year-old woman.