Considering the above stated facts, we may make the following specific recommendations to
establish and enhance the guarantee of the minority women‟s rights in Bangladesh:
1. Establishing mass awareness of the minority wonen‟s won rights and its implementation through
academic and social education. Education is a key component to ensure economic, social and
political participation of minority women. However, there needed to extend practical support from
their own families.
2. Make a politically stable country, where Bangladesh Government should take steps to adopt
various programmes and strong antidiscrimination policies to ensure minority women‟s full
inclusion and active participation in education, economic and employment sectors, policy making
and development on a massive and regular basis from the grass root level to the high profiles.
Simultaneously, government should enact relevant laws and implement these national and
international treaty laws.
In Bangladesh, due to the Islamic and patriarch ideology, Government may face a lot of public
pressure not to implement programmes that benefit minority women, but they should not be
discouraged from upholding the rights of minority women.
3. Make affirmative action targeting minority women and create social awareness for the
importance of the recognition of minority women and respect for diversity in societies. For this
reasons, there needed to have educational programme for the Muslim majority and non-Muslim
males too. The whole population must realise that not all aspects of minority women rights are legal
issues, they are all are everybody‟s social obligation.
4. Not certain quota in the parliament (though there is no quota for the Minority male/female), but
appropriate attention should be paid to the inclusiveness and representativeness of consultative
bodies, including the participation of numerically smaller minorities. Also, a full Participation of
Minority Women in management and governing bodies of education from the Pre-School
construction till the University and professional academies – so that the minority women can
resolve the problems of less inclusion and relevant discriminatory policies.
5. The Hindu women must be given equal rights to property. Although, it is not a persecution issue,
but due to the lacuna and on-going discrimination, the Hindu women are deprived from the
inheritance rights. Since, dowry is prohibited; the Hindu women practically carry less value to the
husband. They often consider to the husband as an empty moneybag. Besides, in case of her
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