Bangladesh, Feb. 7 -- Consultations identify persisting structural, administrative, and security-related risks, underscoring the need for additional measures to ensure equal and effective exercise of voting rights by national minority communities ahead of Bangladesh's 2026 National Parliamentary Election.

As part of its pre-election engagement, RUPSA (Rural & Urban Poor's Partner for Social Advancement) has conducted series of constituency-level participatory consultations across 25 parliamentary constituencies in six divisions and involving more than 500 participants from religious minorities, Dalit communities, ethnic groups, tea workers, gender-diverse voters, and minority women. The findings raise concerns around persisting obstacles...