Bangladesh is phisically and culturally a part of Indian subcontinent. In 1971 it becomes an indipendent State, after a war of liberation that separates it from Pakistan. Bangladesh had been joined with Pakistan in 1947, and it was called East Pakistan.
After the Liberation, the Country was economically destroyed because of the war, and in 1974 there was the terrible famine that called the attention of European media to the country. In these circumstances of poverty and limited development, the condition of the women, influenced by Hinduist and Muslim religions, is traditionally a condition of absolute submission to the head of the family, father, brother or husband.
Lies to the northeast of India, Bangladesh confines with it on north and west, with Myanmar on south-east and with the Gulf of Bengala on south. There are many rivers; the most important are Gange and Brahmaputra. This water abundance makes difficult the communications and the transport, so for a victim of burn, there are logistical problems, before she could enter a suitable centre of treatment.
So it's important to guarantee a first aid intervention on a provincial scale, to assure that the victims were appropriately prepared for the transport to the capital.

Bangladesh is a Democratic Republic, actually the government is made up of the Awami League, and the Prime Minister, Sheik Asina, is the country founder's daughter, murdered in 1975. Most of politics and economy is in the hands of few families, that compete for the power to the damage of the rest of the population.

Country's trouble is the population increase, that today is about 120 million of inhabitants on a surface of 147.570 kmq.
Bangladesh has the highest density of population (861 inhab./kmq)of the world, but it is one of the poorest countries, with a yearly per capita income of about 240 dollars.
It is one of the few countries with a male majority (52% men and only 48% women) in the population.
This is because of the mortality rate (higher for the little girls), the lower longevity of the women, and the high mortality in childbirth.
In the education, today, there is an improvement, thanks to the interventrion of the UNO: in fact today the presence of the girls in the primary school is the same of the male one: 80% in the cities and 85% in the rural area.

The childish malnutrition rate is 66%. The 75% of malnourished children has irreversible damages up to the adult age. The childish mortality rate is 77 for a thousand; it increases in the cities until 81 for a thousand, and in the urban slums is 138 for a thousand. The sanitary condition is shoddy; there is only the 50% of the covering of the medical services and an only doctor every 5000 inhabitants. There are more than 10000 cases of burns every year, above all to women and children within the family. Another problem is the violence against the women. There are 1000 cases of sexual violence every year, the 20% of them are against minors. The cases of violence, sexual or not, are many more, but they aren't reported because of shame.