It has been argued that water shall become a major source of conflict in the 21st century. The world's most utilised trans-boundary watercourses are located in Asia.

Like other ordinary days, I was reading the newspapers and my eyes stucked into news that government has proposed to levy 10 percent VAT on private universities, private medical and engineering colleges.

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/68/192. Trafficking in

We don't want to see travesty, rather we expect that no perpetrator will be escaped from the purview of law

The story of 14-year-old Absaruddin is simply grimmest as it appeared in The Daily Star on May 17, 2015. The title, 'I want to go back to my mother' says it all.

I am working in a private organisation and am currently pregnant. I have seen that, whenever any female employee becomes pregnant the organisation terminates her to avoid providing maternity benefit.

Bengali educated class have typical aversion to the word “clerk” and the class it denotes, so to appease their anxiety we would like to clarify at the beginning that, contrary to the word “clerk” is used, law clerks do almost no clerical jobs.

Nazrul Islam is the Bangladesh Country Director for Relief International (RI), a US based international non-government organization that provides development services in more than 20 countries.

A mother usually bears the main responsibility of childcare work in family life. Father's has also duty to take care of both mother and child. Father plays a

THE treatment of children in judicial proceedings around the world, both civil and criminal, is not satisfactory and often “unacceptable,” the UN human

We often sense the scream and see the gloomy faces of the ill fated migrant workers who have been hidden in the shadow of our society. Unfortunately their

Bangladesh Bank circulated a notice published in 'Daily Prothom Alo', in April, 2015 asking for general recommendations that it is going to enact an Act on payment system entitled 'Payment System Act 2015.'

During the past several months, I was assisted by two volunteer law students attending Dhaka University, on my research on the labour conditions in the garment industry in Bangladesh.

With an aim to protect the rights of Bangladesh's economic migrants by enhancing the capacity of National Human Rights Commission, the UNDP-Bangladesh has recently published a study report titled 'Protecting Migrant Workers from Bangladesh: A Study of Legal Compliance with Migrant Workers' Rights' (2014).

The United Nations General Assembly on June 19 approved by consensus a new resolution to commemorate 19 June as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Reality shows that in Bangladesh sons are considered as future heads of the family, who will be able to assist and provide for their parents in their old age. In such social pattern, sons are viewed as assets and girls as liabilities.

A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.

The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.

The shade of good administrative law largely relies on the expansion of legal aid concept.

First ever South Asia Right to Food Conference was held in Dhaka during May 30-31 and June 1, 2015.