Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh mostly live in Chittagong Hill Tracts (southeastern), Sylhet Division (northeastern), Rajshahi Division (west), and Mymensingh Division (north-central). Assumed as ethnic groups and tribal races, total population of...
This list comprises persons who belong to an ethnic minority group who have been elected as members of the Jatiya Sangsad and other positions within the Government of Bangladesh.
After centuries of relative ethnic diversity, the population of modern Poland has become nearly completely ethnically homogeneous Polish as a result of altered borders and the Nazi German and Soviet or Polish Communist population transfers,...
Following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, attacks began on Hindus in Bangladesh, with Hindu homes, businesses and places of worship being targeted en masse. The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported that from...
In the 2011 Scottish census conducted by the Scottish Government, Scotland's population was recorded to be 96% White, a 2% decrease from the previous census held in 2001. 91.8% of Scotland's population claimed to be White Scottish or White: Other...
Human rights in Bangladesh are enshrined as fundamental rights in Part III of the Constitution of Bangladesh. However, constitutional and legal experts believe many of the country's laws require reform to enforce fundamental rights and reflect...
The religious minorities in Pakistan are Hindus, Christians, Kalasha, Bahais, Parsis and Sikhs, Ahmadis and minority Muslim sects like Zikri and Shia (including Bohras, Ismailis, Dawoodis, Khojas). According to the Global Human Rights Defence, the...
Christianity is Bangladesh's fourth most followed religion, accounting approximately 0.3% (roughly 488,583) of the nation's population. Together with Buddhism (and other minority groups such as Atheism, Sikhism, Jainism, the Bahá'í Faith and...
A number of different systems of classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom exist. These schemata have been the subject of debate, including about the nature of ethnicity, how or whether it can be categorised, and the relationship between...
The quota system of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) is a recruitment policy, established in 1972 following the 1971 independence of Bangladesh, that reserves a percentage of civil service job positions for specific demographic groups. These...