After the fall of the Awami League regime in August 2024, the conversations surrounding enforced disappearances have changed significantly.

In Bangladesh, August 30 has become a test of whether the state has learned anything from the evidence on enforced disappearance now before it.

Every morning before work, Rima, a garment worker living on the outskirts of Dhaka, faces a painful dilemma: there is no safe place to leave her two-year-old daughter.

Bangladesh launched its pink, women-only bus service, operated by female drivers, on August 18. This is a step forward in addressing women’s safety and mobility.

For the past several weeks, the effects of the country’s gas crisis have been felt everywhere: factories struggling with inadequate pressure in supply lines, filling stations facing long queues, households receiving little or no pipeline gas, and power plants unable to generate at their full capacity.

August 25 was observed as the “Ninth Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day” in the camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

A few decades ago, becoming a parent in Bangladesh rarely felt like starting from zero. A new mother had her own mother to ask for help.

How do you pay the price of safety as a woman living in Bangladesh? For many, the answer is with dignity.

The government wants to spend Tk 683 crore training more than 50,000 young people to become freelancers.

The technical faults in one of the two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) in Bangladesh, detected on July 21 this year, have had a cascading effect on various sectors.

On August 23, Invest Bangladesh, formed by merging the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and the Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA), formally started its journey.

A particular silence falls over a char village school after a flood. The benches are empty, the blackboard warped, the floor covered with a thin film of riverbed silt.

The country has never lacked alternatives to coal-fired power.

A hospital may own an X-ray machine, but that does not mean patients can get an X-ray.

Attacks on aid workers have increased sharply in recent years. In 2025 alone, the AWSD recorded 350 aid workers killed and 322 wounded.

The recent suspension and disciplinary actions against some academics at Dhaka University should concern us for reasons that go beyond the individual cases.

In 2025, according to data from Police Headquarters, at least 21,939 cases were filed across the country over allegations of violence against women and children.

A law meant to rebuild Bangladesh’s National Human Rights Commission should widen access to accountability, not make it depend on how quickly a victim reaches the commission. Human rights, accountability, access to justice, Bangladesh

Nine years ago, Bangladesh opened its doors to the largest influx of Rohingya refugees amid one of the gravest episodes of ethnic persecution in recent history.

The global economy is facing an energy crisis due to supply disruptions amid the war in West Asia. Since energy, vital to economic security, has also become a key part of geopolitics, countries have become more vulnerable to energy shocks.