Bangladeshi Women Trafficking Survivors Situation in Family and Society: NGO Response towards Their Reintegration

Trafficking is a wide spread business that not only violates women and children’s human rights but also push them towards a vulnerable state with no protection of life. This paper aims to focus on the perception behind the reintegration process of trafficking survivors, who has returned from India to their families and communities in Bangladesh. In doing so, this research helps to understand the perception of survivors in their reintegration along with the perceptions of community people and family members. This study also brings forth in discussion how their life has been changed and their acceptance in society has been denied. This research was carried out with the help of BNWLA and it intends to find out what BNWLA is doing to reduce those challenges. The study findings show that reintegration of survivors is challenging. Different NGOs and government are working to change people’s mind about the reintegration of survivors and provide facilities to the survivors to get empowered. This study recommends increasing the awareness among people about survivors’ reintegration

Clinicopathological significance of preoperative thrombocytosis in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer

Background: Reactive thrombocytosis is reported in a variety of solid tumors. A few studies have documented preoperative thrombocytosis in ovarian cancer. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, during January to December 2019. A total of 94 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer between 18-70 years of age who underwent primary surgical treatment were included in this study. Chi-square tests were done to see the significance of differences between the two groups where p<0.05 considered as the level of significance with 95% CI. Results: The mean age was 45.39±13.23 years in the thrombocytosis and 48.98±15.46 years in without thrombocytosis group with a range of 18 to 70 years (p=0.231). The difference in education and occupation were statistically significant (p<0.05) between the two groups. The mean Hb% was 10.02±1.47 (gm/dl) in thrombocytosis and 11.15±1.52 (gm/dl) without thrombocytosis group. The difference was statistically significant (p<0.001) between two groups. The study showed that 30 (75.0%) patient’s serum CA-125 was >500 in the thrombocytosis group and 9 (16.7%) in the without thrombocytosis group (p=0,001), OR=15.0, 95.0% CI=4.92 to 47.72, p=0.001. Optimal cytoreduction between two groups were observed statistically significant (p=0.004), OR=3.49, 95.0% CI=1.33 to 9.28. The difference of grade of tumor observed statistically significant between the groups (p=0.022). The 11 (27.5%) patients had lymph node metastasis in thrombocytosis group and 6 (11.1%) in without thrombocytosis, OR=3.03, 95.0% CI=0.91 to 10.48, p=0.022. The OR of developing lymph node metastasis was 3.03 times higher in the thrombocytosis group. Conclusions: Thrombocytosis was commonly detected in preoperative evaluation of women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer. Anemia, higher serum CA-125 level >500, sub-optimal cytoreduction, advanced stage disease, higher grade tumor, and lymphnode metastasis were significantly more frequent in patients with thrombocytosis

Bangladeshi Women Trafficking Survivors Situation in Family and Society: NGO Response towards Their Reintegration

Trafficking is a wide spread business that not only violates women and children’s human rights but also push them towards a vulnerable state with no protection of life. This paper aims to focus on the perception behind the reintegration process of trafficking survivors, who has returned from India to their families and communities in Bangladesh. In doing so, this research helps to understand the perception of survivors in their reintegration along with the perceptions of community people and family members. This study also brings forth in discussion how their life has been changed and their acceptance in society has been denied. This research was carried out with the help of BNWLA and it intends to find out what BNWLA is doing to reduce those challenges. The study findings show that reintegration of survivors is challenging. Different NGOs and government are working to change people’s mind about the reintegration of survivors and provide facilities to the survivors to get empowered. This study recommends increasing the awareness among people about survivors’ reintegration

Trafficking in Women in Bangladesh: Experiences of Survivors and Challenges to their Reintegration

This study aims to focus on the challenges behind the reintegration process of trafficking survivors in their families and communities in Bangladesh. In doing so, this research tries to explore the experiences of trafficked survivors in the process of being trafficked, their life in brothel and returning to Bangladesh. In addition, it helps to understand the perception of survivors in their reintegration along with the perceptions of community people and family members. This study also brings forth in discussion how their experiences in brothel and challenges to reintegration have affected their construction of identity. This research was carried out with the help of BNWLA and it intends to find out what BNWLA is doing to reduce those challenges. This study is consisted of 12 in-depth interviews with trafficking survivors, two focus group discussion with community people, some interviews with survivors’ parents and BNWLA key persons. The data was collected in June-August and analyzed the data using two different theories: Empowerment theory and Stigma theory. Thematic approach has been used to analyze data. The study findings show that reintegration of survivors is challenging. Shelter home provides facilities to the survivors to recover themselves. It takes long time to recover psychologically for the survivors and they lose the self interest to return to community. Self stigmatization of survivors becomes severe when they start living in community. BNWLA is working to change people’s mind about the reintegration of survivors and provide facilities to the survivors to get empowered. However, the empowerment of survivors is not easy due to poverty and stigma imposed by the community people. This study recommends to increase the awareness among people about survivors’ reintegration. BNWLA should be more strategic to ensure sustainable sources of income that will stop the survivor re-trafficking. Government, donor agencies and other NGOs should collaborate with each other to strengthen the anti-trafficking program and facilitate the reintegration of survivors

Bangladeshi Women Trafficking Survivors Situation in Family and Society: NGO Response towards Their Reintegration

Trafficking is a wide spread business that not only violates women and children’s human rights but also push them towards a vulnerable state with no protection of life. This paper aims to focus on the perception behind the reintegration process of trafficking survivors, who has returned from India to their families and communities in Bangladesh. In doing so, this research helps to understand the perception of survivors in their reintegration along with the perceptions of community people and family members. This study also brings forth in discussion how their life has been changed and their acceptance in society has been denied. This research was carried out with the help of BNWLA and it intends to find out what BNWLA is doing to reduce those challenges. The study findings show that reintegration of survivors is challenging. Different NGOs and government are working to change people’s mind about the reintegration of survivors and provide facilities to the survivors to get empowered. This study recommends increasing the awareness among people about survivors’ reintegration.