Overview On February 12, 2025, Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority South Asian country of 174 million, held parliamentary elections and a concurrent referendum. Sixty-nine percent of voters endorsed the July National Charter, which proposed changes to “reconstruct the state on the foundation of democracy and human dignity.”…
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Burma GAP Act
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Against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts across much of Burma (also known as Myanmar), the country’s military government conducted a three-phase national election for national and regional parliaments that concluded on January 25, 2026. Military-backed parties, headed by the Union Solidarity and Development Party (US…
Read the report ↗Overview Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a multi-ethnic Southeast Asian nation of 54.5 million that has been under some degree of military rule since 1962. A February 2021 coup d’etat installed an authoritarian military junta, ending a decade-long period of partial democratization and ushering in a broad nationwide c…
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