United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres has known as for parliamentary elections in Bangladesh and urged the interim authorities to do every part doable to be inclusive.
The United Nations Secretary-Normal has urged that ladies, in addition to minority communities, be included within the electoral course of. “The Secretary-Normal welcomes efforts to revive calm and arrange parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, with the help of an interim authorities,” reads the assertion issued by the Secretary-Normal’s Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, on Monday, 12 August 2024.
“It urges the interim authorities to proceed to do every part doable within the coming weeks to be inclusive, together with by considering the voices of ladies, youth and residents throughout the nation, in addition to these of minority and indigenous communities, because the nation strikes in direction of parliamentary elections,” it added.
Bangladesh is in a unstable political state of affairs after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Prime Minister on August 5, 2024, amid rising protests. The protests, led primarily by college students demanding an finish to a quota system for presidency jobs, developed into anti-government demonstrations.
On Tuesday (13 August 2024), a conflict broke out between members of the Bangladeshi navy and members of the minority Hindu neighborhood who have been protesting with posters of their lacking relations through the violence within the nation. The members have been protesting in entrance of the Jamuna State Visitor Home in Dhaka, the place the pinnacle of the interim authorities of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, resides.
Early on Tuesday (13 August 2024), Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, a senior advisor to the interim authorities of Bangladesh, visited the historic Dhakeshwari Temple in Dhaka, the place he assured Bangladeshi minorities of their security and safety within the nation.
Following Yunus’ go to, an vital assembly between representatives of the Muslim neighborhood and the Hindu minority was held on the temple. This assembly served as a platform for open dialogue, the place each communities mentioned varied points and labored to strengthen neighborhood concord.
