Sexual Harassment!

Sexual Harassment is one of the epidemics of public life in Bangladesh. This is now our main social problem, overcoming many problems in the country. In recent times, our society and family have been badly injured by this terrible problem. The teenagers and their parents, relatives are not getting rid of its terrible aggression. The time has come to get rid of the problem of social values, principles - ethics, norms and the order of life.

What is sexual harassment: Even a few days ago, sexual harassment was identified by the phrase 'eveteasing'. Eveteasing is a slang language of sexual harassment that refers to Eve, the first woman mentioned in the Holy Qur'an and the Bible. The Bengali synonym of the word ‘eveteasing’ prevalent in the Indian subcontinent is ‘teasing women’.


Every woman, including school-going college students, teachers, working women commuters, is often harassed on the way to and from work. Mobile phone, internet as well as technical abuse tactics, including verbal, non-verbal or physical harassment by bullies. Obscene remarks, whistling, intentionally sexually explicit songs, threats, illegal sex claims, etc. fall into the category of verbal harassment. Examples of unsolicited harassment include lewd gestures, obscene gestures, sexually explicit images or videos, uncomfortable staring, retreats, texting or texting on mobile phones, hints of flying kisses, obstruction of walking, etc. Moreover, putting hands on the neck and shoulders, standing close to the body, hugging, kissing, using unpredictable sexual desire according to the physical relationship, pushing in the crowd, taking still or moving images for the purpose of blackmail or character assassination etc. Examples of physical harassment.

Sexual harassment is the most horrible experience of a woman's life. Its impact on women's lives is miserable and negative. Such behavior harms women emotionally. It hinders a woman's freedom of movement, deprives her of her inexhaustible vitality. This oppression is not only on the victim girl; Instead, it hit his entire family. Sad but true is the fact that 75 to 80 percent of these incidents of harassment take place in the vicinity of educational institutions. School or college going girls are the main victims. As a result, a significant number of female students dropped out of school prematurely to survive. As a result, the trend of child marriage increases, which is one of our social problems.

Causes of sexual harassment: The severity of sexual harassment in our society is as deadly as cancer. Its prevalence is spread everywhere in villages or cities. Due to this, the suicide of women has increased. In modern society, the victims of this deadly disease are not only women, but also protesting teachers, parents or guardians.

Notable causes of sexual harassment include:

*Decline of moral values ​​in social, cultural, and family life.

* Lack of respectful attitude towards women.

*Introducing women as advertising products and objects.

*Pornography is rampant.

* Free and uncontrolled display of satellite TV Lack of healthy culture.

* The unawareness of the parents and the family in raising the child and creating awareness.

* Not implementing a proper religious education curriculum that is conducive to healthy character building in the education system.

* Lack of effective laws to remedy and prevent sexual harassment and ignorance in this regard.

Prevention of Harassment Day: For the first time on 13 June 2010, the Prevention of Harassment of Students was observed across the country with the aim of building a joint resistance for the overall security of the students. Earlier, on May 14, 2009, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment banning eve-teasing as sexual harassment. The judgment of the High Court Division has been asked to be complied with as per the law till a law is made in this regard in the Parliament.

Suicide of women who are scared and emotionally disturbed due to sexual harassment is now one of the social problems in the country. In this age of extreme excellence in science and technology, such harassment must first be stopped in the long-awaited development of the world. It is important to find out the real source of this and take family, social and state initiatives. As well as removing the limitations of the required legal framework and coordinating initiatives at all levels. Besides, effective steps should be taken to prevent violence and abuse against women by preventing them from committing suicide.

The following can be considered in this case:

*The appropriate role of the family in the child's upbringing and socialization.

*Establishment of religious values, ethics and ideals.

*Strengthen social movements and resistance.

*Socially boycott the perpetrators and give exemplary punishment.

*Strict restrictions on mobile phones, the Internet and open-air culture - to ensure prohibited and controlled use.

*Not presenting women as vulnerable products.

*Increasing the practice of healthy speech and healthy culture, creating the mentality of women to wear decent clothes and to behave decently.

*Obstructing the aggression of obscenity, sexual perversion, vulgar literature, movies and subcultures everywhere.

*To play an active role in local administration and law enforcement agencies.

*To keep the unemployed youth away from immoral good and evil by arranging employment.

* The protection of women and the courage to be self-confident is invaluable.

*Strict implementation of separate laws against sexual harassment and making it public.

In the hope that women will be free from the fear of sexual harassment, stay safe and secure at home and find their dream life, so let's build a comprehensive anti-violence against women and establish a clean and orderly society. In this case, the state and the government must come forward together.