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Bangladesh women’s committee condemns Hefazat-e-Islam’s ‘misogynistic, barbaric’ statements

Dhaka, May 6 (UNI) Bangladesh’s Samajik Protirodh Committee, a coalition of 67 women’s rights and human rights groups, has fiercely condemned Hefazat-e-Islam’s call to dissolve the Women’s Affairs Reforms Commission, branding the group’s rhetoric as "misogynistic, violent, and barbaric".
The civil-society platform strongly criticised the procession carried out by the radical Islamic group on May 3, during which demands were made to dissolve the women's reform commission and reject its reform proposals, The Daily Star reported.
The Samajik Protirodh Committee also referred to a recent incident near the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University, where Islamist radicals were seen flogging an effigy of a women in a saree, describing the acts as "appalling, disgraceful, and shocking to the entire female community".
It noted that while 11 reform commissions have been formed under the current interim government, and 10 have already submitted their reports without resistance, only the Women's Reform Commission's report has been met with such "violent and regressive backlash" from anti-women quarters.
"The misogynistic and undemocratic campaigns by religious fundamentalist groups are not only unconstitutional but also pose a direct threat to gender equality and human rights," said Fauzia Moslem, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, speaking on behalf of the committee.
Criticising the government's silence and inaction in the face of what it described as "grave injustices and barbarism" perpetrated against half of the country’s population, the committee called on the interim government to take swift and decisive action to build a gender-equal, secular, democratic, and humane state.
The statement concluded with a call to all democratic and progressive forces to unite against anti-women fundamentalist activities and to uphold the values of equality and justice.
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