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Barrister
Rabia Bhuiyan, MP
Barrister Rabia Bhuiyan is the first
woman Barrister of Bangladesh and also a distinguished
parliamentarian. A senior lawyer of the Supreme Court,
she was a Minister in 1986-87 and her parliamentary life
to date extends over two terms. Born in 1944 in a very
respected educationist family she had a very
distinguished educational career, topping the list in
her honours examination in Dhaka University. She passed
her Bar examination from Lincoln’s Inn, UK, and was
enrolled as a Barrister-at-Law. She obtained her BCL
from the University of Durham, UK. Her focus is on
Family Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.
Barrister
Rabia Bhuiyan was a member of the Parliament from 1986
to 1988 and was again elected in 1996. Apart from her
law practice she also teaches law and is presently the
Principal of Bhuiyan Academy of Law and Business
Administration. She is actively associated with a number
of associations, both political and social. She has a
number of publications to her credit mainly on the
subject of women and gender issues.
Barrister Rabia Bhuiyan has attended
more than one dozen international conferences and was
elected Vice Chairperson of Ministerial Conference of
the Non-Aligned Countries held in Delhi in 1985. In
addition to politics and her legal practice she is also
involved in social work. It is here that she came in
close contact with Mother Teresa while working for
abandoned girls and children afflicted with leprosy.
Barrister Rabia Bhuiyan is married to Mr. A.K.M.
Mozammel Haque Bhuiyan, also a Barrister, and has a
daughter and a son.
Professor Panna Kaiser,
MP
Prof.
Panna Kaiser, born in Borura, Comilla in 1947 has been
active in public life since her early teens. Her
husband, Mr. Shahidullah Kaiser, was one of the most
progressive of our writers and journalists and was
killed by the hated Al-Badar Cadres-the collaborators of
the Pakistan Army on the eve of the Liberation of our
country. She has a post graduate degree in Bengali from
the University of Dhaka.
Since
1972 she has been an activist in propagating the values
of our War of Liberation and was one of the members of
the Nirmul Samannay Committee. She has also been
involved with women’s affairs through her association
with the Bangladesh Mohila Parishad and has been active
in the empowerment of women and of issues relating to
gender discrimination. She is a Presidium Member of
Khelaghar, the premier children’s organisation in the
country and has led many delegations overseas on behalf
of Khelaghar. She has introduced the Shahidullah Kaiser
and Sattyen Sen Memorial Award. She has also founded a
number of libraries and high schools.
Her major involvement has been in the
field of re-establishing in our society the ideals and
spirit of our glorious War of Liberation. She is a
prolific writer and besides publishing regularly in
newspapers and journals, has authored 22 books mostly on
the theme of “Muktijuddher Chetona” and women’s
issues. She has visited many countries in the capacity
of member and leader of various delegations including
children’s, women’s and Parliamentarians’. She a
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament from one of the
reserved seats for women.
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