Eve-teasing is a euphemism for street-based sexual harassment, which is a widespread issue across Bangladesh affecting the emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing of Bangladeshi women. The media can play a vital role by covering news and raising awareness of eve-teasing. Historically, the headlines in Bangladesh focused on more obvert forms of gender violence—rape, murder, acid attacks—framing eve-teasing as a mere nuisance, a fact of life in the country. How the media portrays eve-teasing in Bangladesh is a subject about which there is currently very little research. This content analysis of the two main national newspapers in Bangladesh assesses how the media reported street-based sexual harassment over the course of a seminal year—2010. It was during this year that the government of Bangladesh enacted the Family Violence Prevention and Protection Act in acknowledgement of the prevalence and seriousness of gender violence in the country. Similar acts had been passed by the governments of nearby countries India and Sri Lanka in 2005, and Nepal in 2008 (Fardosh, 2013). This study looks at how Bangladeshi newspapers covered ‘eve-teasing’ prominently (as front-page news), in a year when it was acknowledged as a serious issue, through the passing of a law by the Bangladeshi government.

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新闻中“戏弄”的潮起潮落：孟加拉国街头骚扰女性的头版报道

夏夜戏弄是街头性骚扰的委婉说法，这是孟加拉国普遍存在的问题，影响着孟加拉国妇女的情绪、心理和身体健康。媒体可以通过报道新闻和提高对前夕戏弄的认识发挥重要作用。从历史上看，孟加拉国的头条新闻都集中在更明显的性别暴力形式上——强奸、谋杀、酸液袭击——将除夕戏弄视为一种令人讨厌的事情，是该国生活中的事实。媒体如何描述孟加拉国的夜间戏弄是目前很少研究的主题。这份对孟加拉国两家主要国家报纸的内容分析评估了媒体在 2010 年这一开创性的一年中如何报道街头性骚扰。正是在这一年，孟加拉国政府颁布了《家庭暴力预防和保护法》，以承认该国性别暴力的普遍性和严重性。邻国印度和斯里兰卡政府于 2005 年通过了类似法案，尼泊尔政府于 2008 年通过了类似法案（Fardosh，2013 年）。这项研究着眼于孟加拉国报纸如何突出地报道“前夕戏弄”（作为头版新闻），在这一年，孟加拉国政府通过了一项法律，承认这是一个严重的问题。