Umama Fatema, spokesperson for the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, declared that politics in Bangladesh cannot be mainstreamed without addressing women's rights and opportunities. Criticizing political tokenism, she wrote, “Now I see arbitrations on women's rights, just after they were told to sit quietly post-July.” She defended the Women’s Reform Commission’s report and criticized calls to scrap it altogether. “If women’s issues are ignored, all other reform reports should also be considered void,” she argued.