Yunus at UNGA: Bangladesh reforms to ensure no autocrat can return

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Bangladesh is carrying out sweeping reforms to ensure the return of autocracy becomes impossible and democracy remains permanent.Out of every hundred people on this planet nearly three live in Bangladesh. But our story is not important because of numbers, it matters because it reminds the world of the extraordinary power of ordinary people,” Yunus said in his address at the 80th UNGA session in New York on Friday.He recalled that Bangladesh’s youth spearheaded the July Uprising last year, defeating tyranny and opening the way for a just and equal society.We could have chosen the easy path: reforms imposed by executive order. But we chose the hard path: reforms built through inclusion and sustained through consensus,” he said.Yunus said the government has established eleven independent commissions on governance, the judiciary, elections, public administration, law enforcement, anti-corruption, women’s ...

• 26 Sep 2025