Bangladesh women march to demand representation in polls
African Insider | 09.02.2026 15:07
Despite helping spearhead the 2024 uprising that paved the way for the vote on Thursday, women are poised to be largely excluded from the South Asian country’s political arena.Women candidates make up fewer than four percent of the election hopefuls, while 30 of the parties contesting this week’s race put forward male-only tickets.”Whatever regime is in place, repression of women appears in many different forms,” said protester Priya Ahsan Chowdhury, 31, a Supreme Court lawyer, who joined around 100 women chanting slogans and singing in front of parliament.
