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Bangladesh Women Candidates Face Cyber Harassment Ahead of National Election

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Dhaka, Feb 8 (IANS) As Bangladesh heads into a high-stakes national election, women candidates are confronting an intensifying wave of cyber harassment, coordinated online abuse and targeted misinformation, according to local media reports.Women account for just around four per cent of candidates in the upcoming national polls, exposing entrenched gender barriers in a political landscape where women form half the population but barely figure on the ballot.Several women candidates across constitu…