The young generation of the country have been urged to stand up for the emancipation of women and not to be an obstacle on the way to women development.
Speakers at an exchange of views on ‘role of young generation to stop repression against and sexual harassment of women’ made the call in Rajshahi on Wednesday.
Rajshahi unit Bangladesh Mohila Parishad organised the programme at the Freedom Fighters’ Library at Miapara in the city.
The unit president, Abeda Rayhan Buli, chaired the meeting while the organisation’s general secretary Kalpa Roy, its legal aid secretary Sakila Islam Juthi, organising secretary Anjana Sarker also joined the discussion.
Students from several educational institutions, including Rajshahi University, Rajshahi College and Rajshahi Medical College, and young people also attended the programme.
Women leaders said women have hardly any say in the families, society or in the state.
They said the incidents of repression against women increased alarmingly at present as there was a little response from the families or society to draw an end to such crimes.
They also said most of the stalkers were teenaged or from young generation and for this reason they urged building up of consciousness among young people to stop sexual harassment of women.
The young people took an oath for not committing harassment of women and for extending their hands toward women as friends.
