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BSS, Rangpur

Speakers at a discussion on Monday stressed the need for upholding cooperative attitude and joint efforts to bring down domestic violence and social crimes to zero level for building peaceful and violence-free families.

Mithapukur Upazila Paribarik Nirjatan Protirodh Jyote (PNPJ) organised the meeting for preventing domestic violence against women and creating change-makers at Hena Memorial Mohila College in Mithapukur Upazila town.

Chaired by Acting Principal of the College Prof Khwajanur Rahman Khwaja, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Lecturers Golam Mostafa, Rezaul Haque, Mizanur Rahman, Shakila Parveen, Hasina Zaman, member- secretary of PNPJ Pradip Kumar Goswami and Subhash Chandra Sheel of Gano Unnayan Kendra.

Over 70 participants including teachers, civil society members, professionals, public representatives, women community leaders and NGO activists attended.

The speakers discussed various types of domestic violence and repression against women in almost every family due to lack of awareness and opined for undertaking a collective initiative by the civil society for building a crime-free society with no domestic violence.

Later, a 25-member change makers' committee comprising teachers and employees was formed in the meeting with a view to building violence-free families through conducting awareness building activities in the area.