Bangladesh

Population Statistics

168,957,745

Total Population

25,343,662

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

30 November 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of Bangladesh (1972, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article 11 states:

The Republic shall be a democracy in which fundamental human rights and freedoms and respect for the dignity and worth of the human person shall be guaranteed and in which effective participation by the people through their elected representativesin administration at all levels shall be ensured.

 

Article 19, section 1 states:

The State shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity to all citizens.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Bangladesh (1972, last amended 2013)

Representation of the People Order (1972, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Section 31, subsection 7 states:

When an elector is blind or is otherwise so incapacitated that he cannot vote without the assistance of a companion, the Presiding Officer shall allow him such assistance and thereupon such elector may do with such assistance any thing which an elector is required or permitted to do under this Order.

 

Excerpt from the Representation of the People Order (1972, last amended 2013)