RAJSHAHI, Nov 24, 2019 (BSS) – Speakers at a meeting here today observed
that the role of mass-media is very important towards ensuring a gender-
balanced and equity-based society through halting all sorts of repression and
violence against women and children.
They also mentioned that the media both print and electronics has
already established a number of instances towards supplementing efforts of
law enforcers to bringing many persons who were involved in repression,
violence and cruelty against women and children to book through objective
reporting.
They came up with the observation while addressing a media mobilization
meeting titled “Role of Mass-media towards Preventing Repression and Violence
against Women” at conference hall of Association for Community Development
(ACD), a rights-based non-government organization.
Brac and ACD jointly organized the meeting aimed at sensitizing the
media personnel on objective reporting related to culminating the violence
and repression against women and children.
Chaired by ACD Executive Director Salima Sarwar, the meeting was
addressed, among others, by Brac Divisional Manager Raihanul Islam and its
Technical Manager Mehedi Hassan, ACD Monitoring and Documentation Officer
Ruhul Amin and its Media Manager Amzad Hossain Shimul as focal persons.
The speakers viewed that building social awareness among the community
people, especially parents and teachers, has become an urgent need for
prevention of child marriage and dowry for substantial and sustainable
reduction of violence against women.
The government alone or any single organisation is not capable to free
the womenfolk from violence and repression, so community participation is
very important in this regard.
Salima Sarwar said overall national development could be possible
through ensuring education and all other fundamental rights of the children
coming from the poor and underprivileged families.
Physical and mental development of children could also be possible
through protecting them from violence and deprivation, she added.