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Bangladesh
A combined view of Bangladesh's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Bangladesh's General Assembly rhetoric has evolved toward stronger multilateralism and heightened emotional appeal over the 15-year span. Early speeches (2006–2007) emphasized domestic governance and development with measured diplomatic tone, but from 2010 onward, Bangladesh increasingly paired concrete national achievements with calls for global climate justice, refugee support, and multilateral solidarity—a shift accelerated by its direct experience with the 2017 Rohingya crisis and subsequent humanitarian emergencies. The most recent addresses (2024–2025) mark a notable intensification: while maintaining strong statistical evidence of domestic progress, speeches now blend impassioned personal narratives with sustained, emphatic appeals for multilateral action on climate, migration, and regional conflicts, reflecting both Bangladesh's growing voice in the UN and its deepening commitment to shared global challenges.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2007 | Medium | Low | High | High |
| 2010 | High | High | High | Very High |
| 2011 | High | High | Very High | Very High |
| 2012 | Medium | High | High | Very High |
| 2013 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2014 | High | Medium | Very High | High |
| 2015 | High | Medium | Very High | High |
| 2016 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2017 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2020 | High | High | High | High |
| 2022 | High | Very High | High | High |
| 2023 | High | High | High | High |
| 2024 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2025 | Very High | High | High | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Bangladesh demonstrates strong and consistent commitment to multilateral legal frameworks, having ratified 22 of 24 tracked treaties. The country shows near-universal support for environmental treaties, ratifying all 11 tracked protocols including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol, and near-complete embrace of human rights and international justice instruments, with only the Arms Trade Treaty left unsigned and one treaty (Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals) without action. This pattern reflects Bangladesh's vulnerability to climate change and its investment in international norms on human rights, suggesting alignment with vulnerability-driven diplomacy rather than arms control priorities.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatySigned, not ratified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeNo action
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Bangladesh maintains overwhelming consensus alignment, voting yes on 91% of recorded General Assembly votes, with rare dissents concentrated on a narrow set of Cyprus-related resolutions in the 1970s–1980s and a single vote against a 1985 Guatemala human rights resolution—anomalies that stand starkly against its otherwise reliable multilateral voting pattern and its strong contemporary human rights treaty engagement.
Notable dissents from consensus
Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1983-05-13 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-11-20 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1977-11-09 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Missing persons in Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1978-12-20 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Guatemala : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1985-12-13 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.685 (Medium), ranked #130 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023