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Researcher: Zakir Hossain
The divorced, deserted and the widows of Bangladesh
live a highly vulnerable life not only because of their
gender but also because of the socio-cultural customs
and flaws in the legal system specially related to the
inheritance of property. These women are deprived of
their rights to income, inherited property, proper living
space and remain almost in social isolation in the male
dominated society and trapped in a dependency relationship
throughout their lives. The research seeks to understand
and analyse the socio-economic and human rights situations
of these vulnerable groups to be able to identify awareness
raising and other intervention needs in terms of ensuring
inheritance rights, facilitating dispute resolution,
receiving public services and aids, and enhancing the
dignity and status of women in society. The action part
of the research also includes an element of providing
training to these vulnerable groups to raise their level
of awareness, build confidence, for changing the attitude
and mindset towards increased self-respect and self-esteem.
Community people will be involved for ensuring the property
rights of women and for initiating discourse related
to the socio-economic upliftment of women. The process
of the research is expected to lead to the development
of an Operation Module to be used by concerned local
NGOs at least 10 of which will be provided with the
module and necessary training to undertake similar activities
for improving the condition of the vulnerable group
of women.
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