Ensuring justice for rape victims and survivors in Bangladesh has mostly been understood and pursued in punitive terms. While ensuring punishment of the perpetrator is important, redress for the rape survivor is seldom discussed. The objective of this report is to restore the balance in the discourse on justice for rape, so the urgent necessity of granting monetary remedies to the rape survivor becomes clear. To this end, the report highlights the inadequacy of the existing provisions on compensation for rape, and offers a reform proposal, drawing on examples from other laws relating to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Bangladesh and notably, the more comprehensive compensation framework for rape in our neighbouring jurisdiction, India.
Full Report
RLR_RR2 SCS6 ver 2 final 5 feb 2020 without hp (blast.org.bd)