‘Minority Women in Bangladesh: Analysis of Their Human Rights Issues’ Mr. Kaviraj Santayana PhD Mrs. Rani Santayana PhD Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, Youth Front, UK Chapter. santayanauk@yahoo.co.uk The UN Conference for the Fourth Minority Forum. Geneva 29 & 30 Nov 2011, Introduction It is probably universally acknowledged that for being one of the most vulnerable parts of our population in Bangladesh, the minority women are subject to multiple discriminations. They have long been systematically, historically and institutionally facing challenges and being discriminated in every day lives, including educational, economic, political, social, personal and spiritual lives. For being more vulnerable, minorities and women probably are subject to visible and disguised discrimination in all over the world. The UK Government's International Ministerial champion Lynne Featherstone has spoken about the UK government's action to prevent violence against women and to support victims. Speaking to mark the day, she said: „Violence against women and girls is a global problem that affects every country. Around the world one in three women and girls has been beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime, a truly shocking statistic.‟ No country and nation is probably an exception from the discrimination towards women – matters little, the British, European, Russian, Chinese, American or the Arabian. But when the issues is about the minority women, obviously, we do not need any law and philosophical deduction, just mathematically the minority women are proved more vulnerable; and hence, they are more broad listed for being the subject to discrimination in maximum aspects. However, these negative influence is in no sense a defense for Bangladesh; no way to feel encouraged and/or condoled that every where the women and minority are being discriminated, so we can legalize practicing and tolerating this stigmatized policy in Bangladesh too. No way, no way, no way. In 2010, the global sex ratio was 986 females per 1,000 males and trended to reduce to 984 in 2011. (Source: Decline in sex ratio is a global trend". The Times Of India. August 17, 2011.) The first minority rights were created by the revolutionary Parliament of Hungary in 1849. Minority rights were codified in Austrian law in 1867. The first post-war international treaty to protect minorities, designed to protect them from the greatest threat to their existence, was the U.N. 1