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Since 2023, seasonal dengue outbreaks in Bangladesh have killed more than 2,000 people and hospitalized nearly 400,000. Though the 2024 situation has not been as severe as 2023, hundreds of people have died and tens of t...

Following a recent High Court decision reinstating a quota system for allocating civil service jobs, protests have broken out in several cities across Bangladesh. Though the protests initially began peacefully, in recent...

On Sunday, January 7, Bangladesh will head to the polls to directly elect the 300 members of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS; the country’s parliament); the ruling coalition’s leader will then serve as prime minister. With pre-el...

This OSAC product provides a brief update about top-line private sector security concerns in each region. This report covers updates on India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

This OSAC product provides a brief update about top-line private sector security concerns in each region. This report covers security environment updates for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

OSAC is re-issuing a new product format: a brief update about topline private sector security concerns in each region. This regional update addresses U.S. private sector concerns regarding unrest in Pakistan, ethnic conf...

Bangladesh voters will participate in national parliamentary elections between December 2023 and January 2024. Violence and disruption occurred in several previous election cycles, particularly in Dhaka. This report note...

In light of Sri Lanka's economic crisis, OSAC is examining economic security across South and Central Asia and the physical security implications for the U.S. private sector in a series of reports. Bangladesh is unlikely...

OSAC is tracking how social media is involved in inter-communal political violence and unrest. In October, a social media post showing a Quran in the lap of a Hindu deity resulted in the worst communal violence in years,...

This OSAC report describes how, following weeks of demonstrations against Indian PM Modi's visit, chaotic protests erupted March 26-28 in three major locations in Bangladesh, resulting in multiple casualties and transpor...

This report assesses the nature of communication outages in Bangladesh, provides suggestions on how the private sector can prepare, and notes what devices are permitted in the country. It is part of a series that advises...

The military coup in Burma (Myanmar) may exacerbate conditions in the Rohingya refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh in the mid- to long-term if the Burmese military provokes another exodus of refugees. This report ass...

In recent weeks, thousands of Muslims across Pakistan and Bangladesh protested against French President Emmanuel Macron's statements defending the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in French media ou...

South Asia has been the subject of a particularly severe monsoon season this year. Torrential rains, floods, and landslides have affected millions of people, resulting in widespread displacement, damaged infrastructure,...

In November 2019, seven individuals were sentenced to death in connection with the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attacks in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The sentencing, along with the country's history with violent attacks claimed by...

This report examines the risks posed by prolonged exposure to air pollution, to include observations from recent OSAC travel to a few of the world’s most polluted cities. It also discusses duty of care concerns related t...

Conditions in the expansive refugee settlements along Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh have faced serious challenges from extreme weather, disease, crime, and uncertainties in the operating environment. As health and safety con...

Bangladesh has reported a sharp increase in the number of dengue fever cases in the first half of 2019. As mosquito-borne illnesses rise all over Asia, close to 23,000 cases of dengue have been reported in Dhaka alone, w...

In 2018, the U.S. Department of State introduced the Travel Advisory system. Fifteen months after the system went into effect, the Department has unveiled its first significant modification: the addition of a new, separa...

Although it is a preventable disease and is quite uncommon in most of the Western world, outbreaks of diphtheria are being reported in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Yemen.