Dhaka, Nov. 25 -- Speakers at a webinar on Tuesday said a strong birth and death registration law is particularly important for safeguarding women's fundamental rights, including access to education, healthcare, social protection and justice.

The webinar titled "Stronger Registration Laws to Protect Women's Rights" was organised by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) with support from Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UNB reports.

The theme of this year is "UNiTE to End Digital Violence against Women and Girls."

Although the government of Bangladesh has committed to achieving universal birth and death registration...