The bill on equalizing the rights of men and women has caused fierce reactions from Islamist circles in Bangladesh. Demonstrators in Dhaka said they were rejecting "Western laws for women".
Thousands of supporters Islamist Hefazat e Islam group gathered in Dhaka, the capital Bangladesh, in order to protest against the proposal to equalize the rights of women and men.
The leaders of the group stated that the proposals to equalize the rights of both sexes are contrary to Sharia law.
More than 20.000 people gathered outside the university in Dhaka, some carrying banners reading "Say no to Western laws for women".
It was also announced that demonstrations will be organized across the country if the government agrees to equalize the rights of men and women, reports N1.
Mamnul Haq, the leader of the group, demanded that the current government punish those who came up with the proposal.
He said the proposal to give equal rights to men and women "offends the majority of people in Bangladesh".
Haq also called for a ban on the Awami Party, whose leader, former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was ousted in violent demonstrations last August.
During those demonstrations, hundreds of people died and Hasina fled to India, where she is to this day.
Sources: N1/Beta/AP
Demonstrations across the country against Donald Trump's deportation policy have been announced for Saturday. There is also the "No Kings" group, which says that they want "no thrones, no crowns, no kings" in the USA.
Israel's latest fierce airstrikes on Iran are actually a continuation of the military campaign that the Jewish state began after the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Since then, it seems that the determination to deal once and for all with all their enemies in the region has been woven into the collective consciousness of Israelis. Regardless of the cost and consequences
Israeli forces have launched another attack on Iran, targeting sites near the Fordoz nuclear facility south of Tehran, the BBC reports. Tehran responded with a missile attack on the Jewish state
The Israeli military's biggest attack on Iran in decades, carried out overnight under the code name "Rising Lion", targeted all key segments of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. During the operation, leading physicists, including Fereydoun Abbasi, were killed, and technological and military facilities were also hit. The world woke up this morning with the question: has a nuclear conflict just been avoided - or has it just begun
Only one of the 242 passengers survived the crash of an Air India plane on Thursday (June 12th), the airline confirmed
Aleksandar Vučić now has only the old, proven methods of classic dictatorships left, because these modern methods of insanity and poisoning the public are failing. And that, however, goes against his head
Vučić is not defending the state, but himself from the state. With a drum on his back and a guitar in his hands, this man-orchestra performs two or three of the same songs without hearing, with falsifications and falling out of rhythm. His government and politics are like that. In short - dangerous for the environment
Arrests of professors, punishment of people, firing of journalists... The regime of Aleksandar Vučić is shining and is yet to shine. It is the decadent phase of the regime, the one towards the end
The archive of the weekly Vreme includes all our digital editions, since the very beginning of our work. All issues can be downloaded in PDF format, by purchasing the digital edition, or you can read all available texts from the selected issue.
See all
