Mostafizur Rahman Khan, Fardaus Ara
Mainstreaming women through gender specific policies is an acknowledged precondition for achieving meaningful development in any developing country like Bangladesh. Yet it is only recently that this issue has been recognized as such in the context of policy reforms in both administrative and local g...
Fardaus Ara, Jeremy Northcote
This article presents qualitative data from interviews conducted with female national parliamentarians and local government councillors in Bangladesh regarding barriers to women’s participation in electoral politics. The evidence suggests that a gender wall comprised of institutional, historical, so...
Fardaus Ara Begum, Md Shafiqul Islam, A Rahman
Objectives: Bangladesh is a country characterized by the shared cultures of different ethnic groups. Parents in different cultures demonstrate diverse psychological functioning when caring for a child with a chronic disability such as autistic disorder. Few investigations have been conducted in Bang...
Fardaus Ara Begum, Abu Sayem Mirza Md. Hasibur Rahman, Md Shafiqul Islam
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased dramatically in the last two decades in the whole world. ASD hampers child’s and their parent’s quality of participation in everyday life. This study examined socio-demographic status of ASD children and their parents in Dhaka city, Bangladesh...
Md. Mostafizur Rahman Khan, Fardaus Ara
The Governments of Bangladesh have announced various policies and programs to empower women. The Local Government (Union Parishad) Second Amendment Act 1997 of Bangladesh is such an initiative which creates the provision of one third reserve seats for women in the local government bodies to be elect...
Fardaus Ara, Md. Mostafizur Rahman Khan
Human trafficking has emerged as one of the world's most heinous and ubiquitous kinds of human rights violations against women and children. It has now become a serious social and political concern on a global and national scale. Bangladesh is primarily a source and transit country of cross-border t...
Md. Mostafizur Rahman Khan, Fardaus Ara
The number of female MPs elected by direct vote in Bangladesh's Parliament is abysmally low due to the low level of female candidates in the parliamentary elections. This study addresses the underrepresentation of female candidates in the election following the supply- and demand-side model of Norri...
Fardaus Ara
The advent of the internet has made dramatic changes in human lives. In addition, the internet also opens avenues for various criminal activities. Women are more vulnerable to cyber threats than men on social sites. Cybercrime against women is at an alarming state in Bangladesh. There is a need to i...
Fardaus Ara, Md. Mostafizur Rahman Khan
Tahamina Begum, Faruque Reza, A. L. Ahmed, S. Elaina et al.
Has Hijab covered face (Hijab-face) any special neural stimulants to persons of the similar traditions? To address this question we performed Event Related Potential (ERP) (128 channels) study by using the Wavelet Transform (WT), a time frequency representation in 9 healthy volunteers in the same cu...
Fardaus Ara
Fardaus Ara
Many proponents of modernisation theory assert that economic growth leads inevitably to social development. Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris and Christian Welzel, in their revised modernisation theory, claim that along with socio-economic development, modernisation fosters cultural change that in the ...
Jannatul Fardaus Ispa, Monir Khan, Saima, Tasfiq Al Amin et al.
Leontice is a genus of perennial, tuberous herbs belonging to the Berberidaceae family, comprising four species: Leontice leontopetalum, Leontice ewersmanni, Leontice armeniaca, and Leontice incerta . These plants are found primarily in mountainous regions and are widely distributed across parts of ...
Abu Sayem Mirza Md. Hasibur Rahman, Md. Ahshanul Haque, Fardaus Ara Begum, Md Farhad Kabir et al.
Children with malnutrition present with aberrant laboratory parameters. This study aimed to identify high-risk diarrheal children with varied nutritional status. The data were obtained from the electronic database of Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh fr...
Fardaus Ara