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Opening

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A daughter is not a price.

NotPrice is a Bangladesh-focused public evidence project about dowry pressure, the harm it creates, and the verified routes people can support.

Law and survey evidence:

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What Dowry Means

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A gift becomes harm when it becomes a demand.

The legal line matters because pressure can hide inside polite language, family bargaining, or repeated requests around marriage.

Under Bangladeshi law:

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How Pressure Works

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The demand is rarely only one moment.

Dowry pressure can begin as expectation, become negotiation, and continue as leverage after marriage. The harm is not only the amount demanded; it is the pressure created around the demand.

When dowry is reported:

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Before The Wedding

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Before the wedding, choice can narrow.

Before marriage, the space for education, work, mobility, and consent can shrink. This section uses child-marriage context without making unsupported dowry-causation claims.

Before adulthood:

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Marriage Negotiation

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This is where expectation becomes demand.

In negotiation, a family gift can be turned into a condition. The law matters because the demand can be wrapped in custom, respectability, or future promises.

Legal line:

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During Marriage

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The demand can continue after the wedding.

Survey evidence links dowry in marriage with higher violence and controlling behavior. The figures below are association, not proof for every individual case.

In dowry marriages:

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After Violence

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Survival often happens in silence.

After violence, many survivors do not disclose, seek treatment, or take legal action. These figures are broad VAW/IPV response context, not dowry-specific figures.

After violence:

08 / Bangladesh Evidence Map

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Bangladesh Evidence Map

The map shows curated public reports that explicitly mention dowry. District color means monitored report count in this dataset, not violence prevalence.

23monitored reports
Dhaka5 in selected district
No monitored reportMore reports

09 / Organizations & Support

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Organizations & Support

Support verified legal aid, crisis response, shelter referral, and survivor services. If you need help now, use the verified numbers shown here.

Need help now?

If there is immediate danger, call 999. For violence against women and children, 109 is a verified national entry point. For legal-aid information, 16699 is the government legal-aid helpline.

If using this site could put you at risk, close it and use a safer phone or trusted person.
Call 999Call 109Call 16699
Donation verifiedASFAcid Survivors Foundation

Survivor support organization with official donation routes.

Survivor support and advocacyBangladesh
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Donate to ASF
Donation verifiedBLASTBangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust

Major legal-services organization offering legal aid, litigation, and rights support.

Legal aid and human-rights litigationnational with local units
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Donate to BLAST
BRAC
Donation verifiedBRAC SELPBRAC Social Empowerment and Legal Protection

BRAC programme area relevant to legal protection, gender equality, and social empowerment.

Legal protection, gender equality, social empowermentnational / international donation route available
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Donate through BRAC USA
Contact verifiedASKAin o Salish Kendra

Human-rights organization with legal aid, mediation, rapid response, and gender justice work.

Legal aid, mediation, rapid response, human-rights advocacynational / Dhaka-based office
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call ASK helpline
Contact verifiedBMPBangladesh Mahila Parishad

Women’s rights organization with legal support, violence-resistance work, and shelter-home activity.

Women’s rights advocacy, legal support, shelter homenational with district branches
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call BMP office
Contact verifiedBNWLABangladesh National Woman Lawyers' Association

Women lawyers' organization relevant to legal aid, women’s rights, and protection work.

Women lawyers' association, legal aid and rights supportnational / Dhaka-based office
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call BNWLA
Shong
Contact caveatShongjogBRAC Shongjog

BRAC directory for service information across legal, shelter, health, police, social, and other support routes.

Service directory / referral informationnational directory
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Open Shongjog
Scope limitedDMP WSIDDMP Women Support & Investigation Division

Dhaka Metropolitan Police unit for women and children support and investigation coordination.

Police women-and-children support divisionDhaka-focused
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call office
Contact verifiedMJFManusher Jonno Foundation

Human-rights foundation relevant to women’s rights, advocacy, and movement support.

Human-rights and governance foundationBangladesh
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Open MJF
Contact verified999National Emergency Service 999

National emergency number for police, fire, and ambulance response.

Emergency responsenational
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call 999
Contact caveat109National Helpline Centre for Violence Against Women and Children

National helpline for violence against women and children.

Women and children violence helplinenational
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call 109
Contact verifiedNLASONational Legal Aid Services Organization

Government legal-aid route and national legal-aid helpline.

Government legal aidnational
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Call 16699
Info onlyOCCOne Stop Crisis Centre / Cell

Government crisis-centre/cell information under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

Government crisis-response service informationgovernment service information
Last verified: 2026-07-06
Open OCC information

These are verified starting points, not guarantees of outcome. Contact details can change, so every card shows a last-verified date.

10 / Leaflets & Print Materials

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Carry the message offline.

The leaflet set separates a practical Bangla help card from an English awareness and supporter handout.

English PDFThe English two-page dowry awareness leaflet supplied for public download and printing.
English leaflet front preview: A crime since 1980. Still a death sentence today.