Justice for women still far away

   Women have been victims of inequality in all aspects of aspects of their lives in all ages.In the last century, women made made advances in the socioeconomic field amidst innumerable hindrances, but the cruelty towards women has not decreased.
    It is astonishing that women fall victims in a state which claims that there is the highest possibility for the full development of the freedom of women.Needless to say that in order to secure justice,state laws shall have to be friendly towards women so it is easy for them to access justice to a greater extent.
     Women litigants in Bangladesh are deprived of justice due to weaknesses in the legal framework.The personal laws promulgated during the British colonial regime are in force till now in our country , In many of those laws , women have been discriminated.
     In spite of the abolition of self immolation of Hindu wife in her dead husband's pyre, child-marriage,and other forms of oppression, the right of the women in the state-level could not be established in full in our social system. Victims of dowry , killing ,abduction, torture for the realisation of dowry, acid throwing etc become head lines in newspapers.The laws in the state level failed to establish the right women and to assure justice to the litigant women.Simultaneously , with the degradation of law and order at the state level,oppression of women is advancing and women lag behind in getting justice.
      On the face of the demand of the women's organisations to remove discrimination in providing justice, the government promulgated the Family Court Ordinance on June 17, 1985.It was prosumed that the Family Court ordinance of 1985 would play an epoch-making role in protecting the rights of women.However, after 25 years , it is observed that success of this law is so scanty, there is nothing the deprived village women are getting which is worth mentioning.
      It is time for the government to take steps for revising the law, The applied problems of the family courts,for which the women of Bangladesh remain in crisis, are as follows