BUET students still remember Sabequn Nahar Sony who was killed in June 2002 during a fight between two rival political groups. Tragically, she died at the hands of a few wayward students at the very campus where she went to fulfil her dreams. In 2019, an undergrad student of Chittagong University was raped by a senior student of the same university. And in Sylhet s MC College, a gang-rape episode was again prime news recently. Campus violence has badly stained the academic environment for decades and women have often borne the brunt of such inhuman assaults.
The presence of female students in our higher education landscape goes back to 1921 when the University of Dhaka opened its doors. In the following 100 years, their presence has grown remarkably on campus as an index of equity, which is also a constitutional right. Unfortunately, their safety and security in the tertiary education environment remains uncertain. For many female students and their parents, the university campuse