This election is the first following the 2024 July uprising that led to the ouster of the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
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Bangladeshi voters went to the polls on February 12 for the first election to take place since the ousting of Sheikh Hasina in 2024.
Landmark ruling cites UN evidence of coordinated state killings as Dhaka confronts its deadliest crackdown in decades.
Restoring democracy will be a tall order for the interim government as it grapples with security, economic and geopolitical crises.
Calls to return Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, from India are growing, but is this a feasible outcome?
Bangladesh’s interim government faces an uphill battle to get the country’s economy back on track.
The country’s interim leader shoulders the weight of a nation’s hopes, facing monumental expectations of uniting a fractured society, restoring the economy and reestablishing law and order.
The disproportionate impact on men during the Bangladesh protests highlights how gender roles and socio-economic disparities push men into the frontline of civil unrest.
Bangladesh has avoided total collapse, but what step the country takes next remains to be seen.
Military leaders have formed an interim government and promised a transition to civilian rule. Protesters who brought down the previous government are demanding nothing less.
Bangladesh’s repressive leader has been forced out after 15 years in power.
The protesters initially wanted to change a quota system for government jobs. But deep-seated frustrations quickly erupted.
A curfew has sealed Rohingya refugees inside camps run by armed criminal gangs. Here’s what Australia and other nations should be doing to help.
Police brutality has left many protesters dead in Bangladesh, but the authorities are not being held to account.
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Director, Centre for Accountability and Global Development, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Reader in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Doctoral Candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis and Public Scholar 2024-25, Concordia University
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Professor of Development Economics, University of Manchester
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Professor of Economics, University of Dhaka
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PhD Candidate in Legal Analytics, University of Galway
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University
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Associate Professor in International & Community Development, Deakin University
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Assistant Teaching Professor, Dept. of Environment, Culture, & Society, Thompson Rivers University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer of Global Governance, Politics and Security, American University School of International Service