While Assam’s government urged residents to utilize the Citizenship Amendment Act, widespread fears of undermining existing legal claims and forced migrant status led many families to avoid the process entirely.
“My recognition as a stateless and forcibly displaced person has become a long-term barrier to obtaining any formal opportunities for education or work.”
For Rohingya youth, their education is interrupted not because they lack determination, but because educational opportunities in refugee camps in Bangladesh are limited.
Marriage has become a migration route for Rohingya refugee girls, as brokers exploit families’ hopes of overseas grooms, turning promised reunions into trafficking journeys driven by deception, coercion, and profit.
Our democracies are stronger when everyone, regardless of their gender, can fully participate and assert their place in politics.
Child marriage among Rohingya refugees rose 21 percent last year as education cuts deepened. Teachers report more girls leaving school for marriage, with most never returning because of family restrictions.
In post-uprising Bangladesh, LGBTQI+ activists face a convergence: a hostile political class, vanishing international funding, and a state that participates in the violence against them .
Bangladeshi migrants, trying to attempting to reach Greece or Italy by boat via Libya, are considered “gold” by human traffickers, fueling a USD 190 million smuggling economy.
With the current anti-gender attacks on any gender-related work, organisations are being forced to reimagine the manner in which they describe their work.
As Iran-Israel-US tensions escalated into conflict and supply chains disrupted, Bangladesh is facing an energy crisis, heavily exposed by its reliance on imports, which supply about 95 percent of its national energy needs.
Interview with former Awami League Home Secretary Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who is currently exiled in India, on the recent Bangladesh general election, and the Awami League leadership’s ongoing legal challenges.
An analysis of seventy-two pieces of AI-generated content, showed that AI was a powerful political weapon, and was used to manufacture false narratives and shape electoral outcomes ahead of Bangladesh’s national election.
Lasting peace cannot be delivered from a distance. It must grow within communities themselves shaped by local realities, and supported by international partners willing to listen before they act.
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