The economic contribution of high number of migrant workers has been proved to be helpful to overcome job crisis and ensure healthy economy

A substantial number of healthcare professionals are getting infected with the deadly COVID-19 disease and a significantly alarming number of such professionals are succumbing to death all over the world.

Recently, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in the case of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, Suraweera Arachchige Wasantha and others, ordered the police inspectors liable for a fake encounter and custodial death and also the State to pay compensation to the widow of the deceased victim of the encounter.

The role of intellectual property (IP) in combating Covid-19, either in facilitative or restrictive way, is a recurrent issue resurfacing nowadays.

Of late a sitting-member of the current parliament named Mr. Shahid Islam alias Papul has been arrested in Kuwait on charges of human trafficking and money laundering.

During the current pandemic, apart from all Covid-19 related disheartening news from in and outside of the country, Bangladesh has received some good news too.

Infodemic and alluring false drugs’ promise to cure pandemic COVID-19 are compounding the ongoing public health crisis gradually.

Civil society groups Front Line Defenders, CIVICUS and South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) have jointly published a report highlighting the use of excessive force, arbitrary arrests and allegations of torture and ill-treatment by the Bangladesh security forces during student protests.

Sub-section (3) of the section 6 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1958 provides that the provision of Chapter XX of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898, shall apply to trial of cases under the Act, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act.

The proposed budget of 5 lac 68 thousand crore for 2020-21 fiscal year is a robust one. It is now called the budget of ‘economic recovery’ and ‘not of emotion or high ambition’, but the reality of the budgetary scheme is totally different as ‘development’ has been reiterated again even during this difficult time of handling Covid-19 pandemic.

The oppression against minority communities is nothing serious than a pandemic like Covid-19. The exception being that oppression has managed to plague the world for a lot longer.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) conducted a live webinar on “Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond” on Thursday, 11 June , 2020.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed the implementation of an E-Judiciary project to reduce time and costs for litigants in the country.

Considering the emergency circumstances that has emerged from COVID-19 pandemic, the Bangladesh judiciary has lately started to conduct

Right to safe environment is a prerequisite to ensure right to life as it is closely related with the standard of life, health and overall development

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic reminds us the fact that if we destroy biodiversity, we actually collapse the system that supports human life to exist.

The legal framework, particularly premised on the intellectual property standards for the protec-tion of new plant varieties triggers formidable challenges for farmers’ rights, traditional farming, farmers’ traditional knowledge.

June 8 has been marked as World Ocean Day by United Nations. This year’s theme ‘Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean’ is indication of proper management and regulation of ocean resources.

In tech industry, producing and marketing software may generate revenue in billion though Bangladesh is yet to accrue such benefit.

Dhaka Law Review hosted a webinar on May 22, 2020 titled ‘Will Intellectual Property Rights Hinder Access to COVID-19 Treatment?’ The