"Hijra community members are just as human as ... and a "dated curriculum." The new madrassa in Dhaka may start chipping away at those concerns about Islamic schools in South Asia, and its ...

That's why we live separately from [our] parents," she said. The Hijra women dancing together in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Three official Islamic schools have recently opened for Hijras. The women are ...

Many hijras attend the opening day at the Dawatul Quran Third Gender Madrasa in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar on Nov 6, 2020. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi Abida Sultana Mitu, the president of Bangladesh Hijra ...

The Bangladeshi refugee office (RRRC ... are largely invisible. One hijra community leader in Cox’s Bazar told CNN that Rohingya hijras numbered in the thousands. Shyamala Alagendra, an ...

The Bangladeshi population has long included a community of people who identify as "third-gender," sometimes referred to as the "hijra." For centuries, they played a role in religious life in ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh (TrustLaw) - “If you are a hijra the undertaker refuses to bury you, and your body ends up in a river,” says Laily Sikder, one of the tens of thousands of hijras ...

The mosque near Mymensingh, north of the capital Dhaka on the banks of the Brahmaputra river, was built on land donated by the government after the city's hijra community were expelled from an ...

From birth, a child begins to navigate a web of emotions, sensing feelings of distress and yearning even before they truly grasp the concept of their own physical existence. As they reach ...