By: Quazi Baby, Executive Director of Participatory Development Action Program
On 17 September at 11 a.m. Participatory Development Action Program (PDAP) arranged a rally on Street Harassment in Dhaka, Bangladesh. About 50 participants (including men, women, girls and boys) joined at the rally, holding a banner where it was written “Campaign against street Harassment ”. While walking along the road, participants shouted, “Stop Street Harassment!” The rally was finished at 11:45 a.m.
After finishing the rally, 20 grassroots women, girls, men and boys came to PDAP’s office and attended at the discussion programme. I explained about the reason for street harassment and how we can protest this harassment. Grassroots leaders explained about the present situation for girls and women. They said we all are unsafe on the street. We all need to protest jointly with other organization. But we do not have enough time to do this, because we need to earn money for running our family.
During the discussion, four grassroots leaders Ms. Madina, Ms. abida, Ms. Akbari Ms. Noorjahan spoke on their sufferings where they are living and what they do to overcome the situation. Besides, two young girls (Shirin and Ferdoushi) and two young boys (Mehdi and Noor) were spoken about their feelings and showed their solidarity to protest against harassment.
