CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH - Media OutReach Newswire - 2 May 2024 - Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark's first female Prime Minister and a decade-long leader of the Social Democrat Party of her country, has joined the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh as a Patron. Prime Minister Thorning Schmidt also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children International and continues to serve on a variety of important Board and Advisory roles, including as Co-Chair of Facebook's Oversigh
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan speaks with The Daily Star about the recent general election, shrinking space for dissent, and the pressing need to address human rights concerns in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh becoming a one-party state: The most important outcome of this election is the emergence of Sheikh Hasina as the supreme leader of the country. She has been so for many years now, but the latest election has enormously consolidated that position. What was de facto is now de jure.
In Bangladesh, the party of head of government Sheikh Hasina appears to have clearly won the parliamentary elections boycotted by the largest opposition party. According to preliminary results, Hasina's Awami League party won more than 50% of the 300 parliamentary seats, a representative of the election commission announced on Sunday night. In 208 constituencies for which results were available, the party won 152 seats. The vote on Sunday was overshadowed by various incidents of violence. Accord
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is all set to assume office for her fourth straight and fifth overall tenure as her ruling Awami League (AL) party made a clean sweep in a parliamentary election that was boycotted by the main opposition party. Hasina’s party won in more than two-thirds of the seats in Sunday’s election to the unicameral parliament of 300 lawmakers. Fifty other lawmakers in the seats reserved for women are elected by the MPs from regular seats once the new parliament gets