Naila Kabeer
* Foreword - John Gaventa * INTRODUCTION * 1. The search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions in an interconnected world.- Naila Kabeer * CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS * 2. Towards an actor-oriented Perspective on human rights - Celestine Nyamu-Musembi * 3. The emergence of human rights in t...
Shireen Huq
Summaries This article explores the values and limitations of a rights?based approach to development focusing in particular on its potential for extending notions of citizenship to include women. It discusses the function of international conventions as a mechanism through which citizens can hold th...
Shireen Huq
In 1999 the government of Bangladesh forcefully evicted sex workers from a large cluster of brothels just outside Dhaka. Members of the sex worker organisation, Ulka, immediately sought support from Naripokkho, a country-wide women’s NGO. The Naripokkho office was transformed into an impromptu shelt...
Shireen Huq
Women in Bangladesh suffer both an unequal legal status with regard to many important rights and an inferior position with regard to cultural beliefs and practices. This situation is aggravated further by what appears to be a lack of social and political will to deliver justice on violations that wo...
Shireen Nigar, Islam Md Shimul, Md. Sakhawot Hossain, Razia Sultana et al.
• Local fig varieties ( Ficus hispida and ficus racemosa ) showed higher phytochemical contents than mediterranean fig ( Ficus carica ). • Oven drying at 50–55 °C for 24 h preserved higher phytochemical levels compared to sun-drying. • Ficus racemosa exhibited the highest antioxidant activity among ...
Md Zahirul Islam, Rajan Chandra Ghosh, Md Faisal, W Adger et al.
Bangladesh is likely to be one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change due to geographical location and geo-morphological conditions. Bangladesh experiences extremely disastrous situations like a cyclone, flood, saline water intrusion, water logging, heavy rainfall, river ero...
Shireen Huq
In order to trace the trajectory of women's gains and losses since Bangladesh's independence over four decades ago, the centrality of women's bodies is brought to the fore. This is illustrated through the campaign work surrounding the movement to oppose violence against women and the struggle for se...
Shireen Huq
A. K. Obidul Huq, Ielias Uddin, Md. Tazul Islam, Eyad Ahmed et al.
World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency due to the recent spread of COVID-19 throughout the world. Millions of people are affected daily and thousands died. Almost all countries are now paying attention to control this pandemic outbreak. Therefore, researchers are t...
Shireen Huq
This paper deals with the experiences of Naripokkho, a women's organization that seeks to carve out an autonomous space for feminist politics in Bangladesh that is neither driven by the women and development agenda nor subsumed within a male-dominated party politics. This has allowed the organizatio...
Mashhura Huq, Shireen Afroz, Tarannum Khandokar, Sabrina Akter et al.
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major health problem in children worldwide. Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis (IPD) has been reported as the preferred modality for the management of AKI in low-resource setting countries like Bangladesh. Its efficacy in different varieties of AKI is less em...
Mashhura Huq, Shireen Afroz, Sabrina Akter, Moshrefa Newaz et al.
Background: In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, intermittent peritoneal dialysis (IPD) has been identified as the preferred modality for the management of AKI. PD is a safe, simple and inexpensive procedure and has been used in pediatric AKI patients. However, its effectiveness in treatment of...
Mohammad Abduz Zaher, Marjia Sultana, Sonia Zebsyn, Progati Bakshi et al.
Healthy life expectancy in elderly people largely depends on their dietary behavior. This study aimed to investigate the gender differences in food consumption patterns among elderly outpatients in a renowned hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of 85 elderly outpatients (56 male and 29 female) fr...
Ielias Uddin, Sumaiya Mamun, Shireen Nigar, Mohammad Abduz Zaher, A. K. Obidul Huq
A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among the 385 urban households at Rajshahi city in Bangladesh, which was selected by purposive random sampling methods at the time of March to December 2019. The aim of study was to identify the knowledge, attitude and practices about the micronutr...