When summer heat arrives, a working air conditioner is essential. However, many people forget about their AC until it stops working or the energy bill skyrockets.

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Record-breaking heatwaves over the past two years have fundamentally altered the consumer landscape in Bangladesh.

As of 2024, more than 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which is expected to rise to nearly 70% by 2050.

Today, Mabia Akhter Simanto remains her own biggest rival. She laments that the younger generation often lacks the "fire" she had, perhaps because they haven't had to fight the same demons.

Bangladesh is currently navigating a quiet yet catastrophic renal emergency. With an estimated 3.8 crore people suffering from various forms of kidney ailments, nearly one-fourth of the nation’s population is at risk.

Kidney stones are hard, solid masses made from minerals and salts. These form inside your kidneys when waste products in the urine build up.

For many women, these small moments shape how the city is experienced. Routes are chosen based on light and activity.

Women carving out their space

Justice must not be a distant promise; it must be something every woman and girl can rely on in her daily life.

Across rural Bangladesh, thousands of women contribute daily to farming, fishing, and resource management. They cultivate crops, rear livestock, mend nets, process fish, and manage household economies. But when it comes to formal access to public land, wetlands, and agricultural credit, they remain largely invisible.

Bangladesh stands at a moment it calls renewal, yet women remain marginal to its authorship. From Parliament to panels, men continue to speak for the nation, while women remain an afterthought.

Unfortunately, for centuries, once a woman experiences violence, the first point of discussion will be whether the woman in question was a 'good' or a 'bad' woman.

If Bangladesh is serious about women’s empowerment, it must build a comprehensive victim-centric support system in matters of sexual harassment and other gender-based violence.

The concern most widely shared among Indigenous populations in opposing women's inheritance of land centres on the increasing instances of exogamous marriages in the CHT.

Grey areas remain. Deepfake content is recognised, but victims often lack recourse under copyright law because they do not “own” the manipulated material. Section 17 addresses harmful AI outputs, yet identifying the origin of automated, AI-driven harassment remains technically complex.

The prospect of societal advancement while keeping women outside the mainstream of development is simply unrealistic.

Across every region of the country, within families of many different communities, classes, and professions, countless individuals are being subjected to physical and psychological violence. What follows is a brief attempt to outline the legal framework governing marriage, divorce, maintenance, and child guardianship under the laws currently in force in Bangladesh.

As we enter another political transition, it may be helpful to reflect on some of the opportunities for building a justice system that is inclusive, that reflects the diversity of our population, including in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability and religion, and that can strengthen the recognition and realisation of women’s rights.

Laws, however, only matter if they work for survivors. Justice must be visible, accessible and humane.