The first madrassa, or Islamic school, specifically for transgender students in Bangladesh opened last week in the capital city of Dhaka. It was a first not only in the country, but across South Asia, ...

Community leaders say they are still denied jobs, housing, education and even basic identification, facing daily humiliation in schools, hospitals and government offices ...

Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the promise of worship without ...

DHAKA, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When an elderly relative passed away, Sanjibani Sudha, a 26-year-old banker, was not permitted by her family to attend the funeral because she is a ...

This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — Salma lives in a crowded refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. On a late evening in September 2023, she put on a colorful ...

The Election Commission of Bangladesh has officially published the final voter list ahead of the upcoming 13th national ...

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, convener of Citizen's Platform for SDGs, today said amid rising fear and repression, vulnerable groups in Bangladesh say they have been forced into silence, with women, the ...

As Bangladesh braces for the impact of COVID-19, with much of the country in lockdown, people with means have stocked food and hunkered down at home. But in a country where one in five people lives ...

Six days a week, transgender students come to Rina Hijras’ home to learn. Six days a week, transgender students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, come to Rina Hijras' home to dance, eat and, more importantly, ...

Bangladesh’s government announced that it would create a third option for gender on its voting list forms. Previously the only two options were checking the “male” or “female” box. As a result of this ...