'Role of Grassroots Organizations in Combating Violence within the Family"

It is women themselves who should take the first step to protect themselves from violence, especially when it happens inside their homes. They must know their rights and also included giving special attention to violence against  disabled women, trafficking women in the name of giving them work in foreign countries. creation of more one-stop crisis centers at police stations, unification of the religious laws according to which women are sometimes deprived and discriminated against, especially with regards to property and marriage issues.

According to professor Shahnaz Huda's paper, 'Role of Grassroots Organizations in Combating Violence within the Family", an increase in female autonomy can cause conflict between a woman and her husband or his family, thereby increasing the risk of domestic violence. In a family, women are socially discriminated against with regards to nutrition, general care, etc. This is a very common practice in many of the educated families in society as well. professor Huda emphasizes the need to make the men more aware about these issues as they are often the men more aware about these issues as they are often the abusers. They should be make aware about family laws and that violence of any kind, is not be justified under any circumstances. Moreover, in many families, women encourage or sometimes even directly commit violence against other women, for instance, over dowry, a common occurrence in many parts of the country. One of the solutions, according to professor Huda, is to interact with religious leaders. They should speak against dowry and domestic violence, learn and understand the correct version of religious laws and mobilize against illegal fatwas. Another solution, which she talks about, is the changing of the general attitude towards the girl child. Right from the time of birth, confidence should be instilled in children equally in boys and girls. Boy should also be taught to respect girls from a very early age and not treat them in a condescending way, mirroring the adults around.

In fact, Home Minister programme coordinator from Oxfam Bangladesh, analyses a man and his thoughts in his paper 'victimizing Women From A Man's perspective' speaks of a man's age-old attitude towards females. According to the paper, centuries of patriarchal leads us to believe in man's superior power to think and act logically and better as compared to a woman. We tend to depend on his all-worldly ability to fight the world and at the same time take for granted his tendency to underestimate and victimize women.

The national council, apart from bringing to the forefront the extent to which women all over the country are tortured and oppressed, gave people from diverse backgrounds the oppertunity to brainstorm how we can stop this disease that debilitates society and prevents it from progress. As the Executive Director of the Foundation put it. the way to go about fighting violence against women is to have zero tolerance for it.