
This policy brief maps two decades of election-related violence against minority communities in Bangladesh (2001–2024), identifying recurring patterns and predictable geographic hotspots along with current risks based on recent incidents. It shows how violence shifts beyond polling day into pre- and post-election periods, leaving minorities disproportionately exposed. The brief calls for hotspot-based, early, and sustained preventive actions to safeguard lives, livelihoods, and inclusive democratic participation.

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06 April 2026
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The November-December 2025 issue of Lives, Sapran's bi-monthly newsletter, captures a period of intensified human rights documentation, institutional collaboration, and transitional justice advocacy in Bangladesh. It features the Human Rights Violence Tracker, a systematic monitoring tool documenting patterns of state violence, kneecapping, and pellet gun injuries across the country. The issue highlights high-level meetings with Sweden's Human Rights Ambassador, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), and the Omega Research Foundation to strengthen ethical documentation standards and survivor centered evidence building. It also covers panel discussions on kneecapping as a tool of political repression, a seminar on the prohibition of pellet guns at Begum Rokeya University, and a photography exhibition on enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings co organized with OHCHR. Through workshops on community health worker organizing, policy dialogues on community care, and collaborations with BLAST on post-uprising violence, Lives examines how rigorous research, survivor centered advocacy, and institutional partnerships are shaping accountability and human rights in Bangladesh's transitional period.
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