Dhaka, May 6 -- Bangladesh's Samajik Protirodh Committee, a coalition of 67 women's rights and human rights groups, has fiercely condemned Hefazat-e-Islam's call to dissolve the Women's Affairs Reforms Commission, branding the group's rhetoric as "misogynistic, violent, and barbaric".
The civil-society platform strongly criticised the procession carried out by the radical Islamic group on May 3, during which demands were made to dissolve the women's reform commission and reject its reform proposals, The Daily Star reported.
The Samajik Protirodh Committee also referred to a recent incident near the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University, where Islamist radicals were seen flogging an effigy of a women in a saree, describing the acts a...