{"id":73217,"date":"2025-08-01T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/01\/women-bangladesh-uprising-female-activists-rights-students-protest-sheikh-hasina"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:00:14","slug":"because-of-women-it-became-a-peoples-revolution-what-has-changed-one-year-on-from-bangladeshs-student-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73217","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Because of women it became a people\u2019s revolution\u2019: what has changed one year on from Bangladesh\u2019s student uprising?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted \u2013 and how the country can secure lasting change for women\u2019s rights<\/p>\n

On 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister of Bangladesh and fled the country, the culmination of a student uprising<\/a> that saw the most widespread participation of women in street protests in Bangladesh\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Armed with sticks and stones, Bangladeshi women headed marches and stood defiant against riot police and the military. Their presence became a defining image of a revolution that has rewritten Bangladesh\u2019s political and social narrative.<\/p>\n

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Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted \u2013 and how the country can secure lasting change for women\u2019s rightsOn 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister of Bangladesh and fled the country, the culmination…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,327,1453,59,503,78,3119,80,440,2816,79,61,572,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-bangladesh","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-indigenous-peoples","category-life-and-style","category-muhammad-yunus","category-protest","category-sexual-violence","category-sheikh-hasina","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217\/revisions\/73218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}