Between January and September, at least 21 incidents of violence—rape, attempts, harassment, murder—were reported against national minority women in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The National Consensus Commission’s July Charter effort faces collapse as Bangladesh’s largest and most secular parties remain excluded and Islamist blocs push for an illegal referendum.
Former minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun’s death in custody sparks outrage after viral images showed him shackled to a hospital bed, fueling criticism of Bangladesh’s interim government.
At Geneva’s UN Human Rights Council, European leaders decry worsening rights abuses in Bangladesh and Pakistan, urging greater global pressure to protect minorities and women.
A Canadian institute says the UN’s Bangladesh protest report overstated abuses under Hasina while overlooking opposition-led violence and aiding Yunus’s interim rule.
