Stop physical torture on women

According to the report of UN, one third of the women is raped or physically tortured during her life and the number is around one billion across the world. We observe many programmes, including seminars, rallies in public places, processions with banners and festoons, and distribute leaflets to raise awareness and to end violence against women. According to the police, around 200 million women were raped, murdered after rape, became acid victims, tortured for dowry etc. during 2011 to June, 2012.
I had an opportunity to work for women empowerment a couple of years ago. I found many women are cruelly treated in their in-laws' and in their own families. Women could teach for one year in the rural secondary schools under our project named PROMTE. After that they were sent to Teachers Training Colleges to get BEd degree after completion of which they were capable enough to get teaching jobs in the rural secondary schools. Not very long ago, women teachers were hardly found even in the urban schools and women teachers of Math and Science were beyond questions. Math and Science teachers were preferred under this project. Around three thousand women were appointed teachers in the rural schools under this project. I was brought up in a district town but the school where I studied had no women teachers. There must have thirty per cent women teachers in the non-government schools, according to a circular from the Ministry of Education. It was the achievement of PROMOTE and some other NGOs. But now the incumbent government has relaxed the rule to some extent.
We have been using a huge amount of money on seminar, gathering, festoons, leaflets and others in the name of work for women. Can these help who are trapped and work as sex workers in the brothel or street girls who are raped and tortured every day and night? Even we don't hear any voice against brothel or even for the safety of the street girls. I would like to request the authority concerned to have more projects like PROMTE for women empowerment, their dignity in families, society and in the state.
It is found that the illiterate people have many children and they are the burden and create problems in our society. We should educate the nation properly.

Md Tofazzel Hossain
Kushtia
tofa01@gmail.com