Ipas Bangladesh and The Daily Star jointly held a roundtable on June 8, 2026.

BALLOT Project, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Daily Star jointly held a roundtable on April 26, 2026.

Media Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) and The Daily Star, with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), held a roundtable on April 06, 2026.

UNICEF and The Daily Star, with support from the European Union, held a roundtable on April 12, 2026.

A roundtable was organized on March 9, 2026, by UN Women in partnership with The Daily Star, with support from the European Union.

A roundtable was organized on March 9, 2026, by Bangladesh National Gender Working Group (BNGWG) in partnership with Plan International Bangladesh and The Daily Star, marking International Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “Rights, Justice, Action for all women and girls.”

Disagreements remain over the actual number of persons with disabilities in Bangladesh, making it difficult to understand their living conditions fully.

A roundtable titled “Looking into Bangladesh’s Development: Priorities for the Newly Elected Government in the Short to Medium Term” was held on March 4, 2026, at the BRAC Center, Dhaka.

A roundtable titled “Ending Digital Violence: Policy Priorities for Advancing Health and Justice for Women and Girls” was held on December 8, 2025, at The Daily Star Centre, Dhaka.

A roundtable titled “Empowering Women and Youth for Climate Resilience: Bridging Policy and Funding Gaps” was held on October 12, 2025, at The Daily Star Centre in Dhaka.

A roundtable titled “Electoral Commitments on Addressing Discrimination against Women and Family Rights” was held on Monday, 2 February 2026, organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), The Daily Star, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), and the Danish Embassy.

A roundtable titled “Advancing Indigenous Rights in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT): Progress, Challenges and Political Commitments” was held on 26 January 2026, at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka.

The power sector has become a ‘corruption sector’ over the last 16 years of governance, bleeding trillions of taka. Our key expectation for party manifestos is a clear roadmap addressing two interlinked crises: energy security and systemic graft.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged strict enforcement of existing laws rather than introducing new ones, calling for swift and exemplary punishment for offenders to prevent violence against women.

A roundtable titled “Violence Against Women and Children in Bangladesh:

Future-ready, comprehension-led learning: Keep Bangladesh’s grade-wise benchmarks, but refocus them on literacy and numeracy plus problem-solving, reasoning and socio-emotional skills. Teach for meaning and application, and align classroom and public assessments to reward understanding over memorisation.

Congratulations are in order for the amended Labour Law and the ratification of key ILO conventions, an important step forward over the past year.

A roundtable titled “From Risk to Resilience: Institutionalising Climate Risk Insurance into Bangladesh’s Social Protection and Disaster Management Mechanisms” was held on 26 November 2025 at The Daily Star Centre, Dhaka.

A roundtable titled “Violence Against Women Survey 2024: Translating Evidence Into Actions” was held on 24 November 2025, at The Daily Star Centre, Dhaka. Jointly organised by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and The Daily Star.

Bangladesh continues to rely overwhelmingly on bank financing, while equity financing remains largely untapped. According to a World Bank survey, only 0.5% of Bangladeshi businesses consider equity as a funding option, compared to 6.9% in India.