Her organisation, Banchte Shekha ('Learn to Survive') helps those who are abused by their husbands. In the course of her life, Angela Gomes, originally from the Mathbari parish in Gazipur, has, ...

After founding the women's group Banchte Shekha 40 years ago, Angela Gomes widely hailed as icon for the oppressed Angela Gomes, a Bangladeshi Catholic and a champion of women's rights, founded ...

More than four decades after a Catholic laywoman founded a community group that paved the way for the socioeconomic emancipation of countless Bangladeshi women, it is struggling for survival amid ...