Avijit Saha, Arpita Dutta, Ridwan Islam Sifat
Background COVID-19 outbreak has drawn out institutions to closure with several challenges for university students of undergraduate level in Dhaka city including an emergency shift from traditional learning to online learning, which associated digital divide, left several arguments in response to te...
Ridwan Islam Sifat
Highlights • COVID-19 has increased the risk of domestic violence.• There are numerous reports and unreported cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh, including physical, financial, psychological, and sexual abuse.• Tele-counseling and video-counseling mental health services may help to the victim'...
Ridwan Islam Sifat
On 27 March 2020, the World Health Organization warned that stress, anxiety, and fear would increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation (World Health Organization, 2020). Another research showed that due to COVID-19 crisis, suicide, domestic violence, mental disorders, anxiety, depressive disord...
Ridwan Islam Sifat, Maisaa Mehzabin Ruponty, Md. Kawser Rahim Shuvo, Mehjabin Chowdhury et al.
The pandemic has affected every walk of life, and mental health is no exception. Bangladesh has been operating under a resource crisis, and this crisis has incurred and is incurring a governance priority dilemma. Unending vacations of the educational institutions are taxing our students' mental sere...
Ridwan Islam Sifat
Faria Ahmed, Ridwan Islam Sifat
The COVID-19 Pandemic has affected people's health, mental health, livelihood, and well-being of people across all sectors. In this research, we were interested in studying first-hand accounts of rickshaw-pullers, a segment of informal workers in Bangladesh who have suffered greatly from the virus a...
Faria Ahmed, Ridwan Islam Sifat
The purpose of this study is to explore how the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has affected the mental health of our society in Bangladesh as a thorough assessment of mental health is salient during this pandemic crisis. The study seeks to ensure that their unheard voices are reached to both nati...
Ridwan Islam Sifat
In South Asia, the hijra are referred to as a third gender, as a group of transgender women and nonbinary and intersex people who were assigned male at birth Some estimates suggest that more than 10 000 hijras live in Bangladesh, whereas others indicate there are more than 100 000 However, they are ...
Ridwan Islam Sifat, Faria Ahmed, Md. Rafid Abrar Miah, Manila Khisa
The COVID-19 lockdown in Bangladesh has left hijra individuals at an increased risk of poverty and food insecurity due to the economic crisis. COVID-19 challenges the fundamental foundation of the public health system, and now the hijra group is out of the system because of stigma and discrimination...
Semonti Jannat, Ridwan Islam Sifat, Manila Khisa
Ridwan Islam Sifat, F. H. Yasin Shafi
The ‘third gender’ or ‘hijra’ people, who identify themselves to be neither male nor female, are largely socially excluded. This article followed the qualitative method of research. Four focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with 28 hijra respondents, and three interviews were conducted with...
Ridwan Islam Sifat
/SUMMARYSocial Safety Net (SSN) programs refer to the social service programs that help temporarily vulnerable and shocked people, such as lower-income people. The SSN program aims to provide residents with little money, access to school, improvement of treatment facilities, helping people with phys...
Faria Ahmed, Ridwan Islam Sifat
<ns4:p>In this paper, we study the transgender or Hijra communities to recognize and discuss the ongoing and long-term economic, mental, and emotional effects of lockdown on the most vulnerable who are worse off than daily wage earners. Hijras are a group of transgender people, non-binary and inters...
Avijit Saha, Arpita Dutta, Minhazur Rahman Rezvi, Ridwan Islam Sifat et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down economic growth and disrupted labor markets throughout the world, including Bangladesh. A significant proportion of people lost income sources in the formal and informal sectors, triggering them to return to villages, and the transition introduces us to the new ...
Ainun Nishat Chowdhury, Ridwan Islam Sifat
Abstract The concept of Islamophobia and the persecution of the Rohingya minority—these two phenomena are highly significant in the world context. These factors have affected systematic violence and statelessness for many years by the Myanmar Buddhist majority and the Myanmar government itself. The ...