Since Its establishment in 1945, the United Nations (UN) has been playing the role of a pioneer in institutionalising human rights...

It is common knowledge that authoritarian regimes (both unelected regimes and elected regimes subsequently turning into tyrannies)...

At the very outset let me, on behalf of JAMAKON – the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh, extend heartiest greetings to

In the previous issue, an announcement for short legal write-up competition was published where the email address for submitting write-up was mistyped.

ANTI-SMOKING groups hailed Quebec's new tobacco-control law Friday as a world precedent. “We're thrilled,” said Flory Doucas, co-director of the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control.

An acid attack is a wrath hit which is a form of vicious assault. It is an act of acid throwing or a similarly corrosive substance onto...

About three months ago, Mr. Huq and his three friends had gone on an excursion to Faridpur district. During a meal at the popular...

It is no surprise that we are witnessing a constant rise in hacking incidents of databases of governmental organisations in Bangladesh, making the whole situation of sharing personal data online even more distressing.

To celebrate Human Rights Day 2015, LAW&OUR RIGHTS, The Daily Star is pleased to announce a short legal write-up competition for all law enthusiasts, learned and right activists.

As a nation, we have suffered trials and tribulations; as is true of all nations. Yet the purpose today is not to discuss the commonly debated issues: it is to discuss the trials and tribulations of 58% of our population. Bangladesh is not an overtly gender biased nation:

With an aim to provide people with a single-point source of accessing diverse legal knowledge, Manupatra brings its vast technical and

Having law background, many of us often face the question that whether death penalty has been abolished in Bangladesh after the

In criminal justice systems, minorities face discrimination ranging from excessive and sometimes lethal use of force, torture by police, to longer periods of stay in pre-trial detention, discrimination during judicial procedures and biases influencing sentencing, according to the UN human rights expert on minority issues.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of exception to section 375 of the Indian Penal Code that exempts sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, she not being under 15 years age from the definition of rape, was dismissed by Kerala High Court last month on 28 October 2015.

National cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain was denied bail and sent to jail on 13th of October, 2015 after completion of a three-day remand in the case filed for torturing his 11-year-old domestic help Mahfuza Akhter Happy. Prior to his indictment, the incident had received widespread attention through social media; the outcry subsequently led also to the arrest of his wife on charges of maltreatment of the household help.

Perhaps the biggest challenge for the judiciary in the country is to reduce the delay in the court process and remove the backlog of cases. The judiciaries in most countries however face similar problems. Cost, delay and complexity in the court system were identified in the UK as the major problems with civil justice process in 1997, which eventually resulted in the subsequent reforms and the overture of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), 1997.

The Urdu-speaking community living in Bangladesh, popularly known as Biharis, does not refer to a distinct group of people easily identifiable by race, religion or physical characteristics. The case of Bihari community in Bangladesh is different from the other minority groups. This community primarily focuses on a geographical location of Indian state of Bihar.

We are a Hindu couple who got married in 2000. The marriage was performed by a Purohit of our locality in Chittagong following all...

Punishing someone without lawful authority is not accepted in any civilised legal system. This principle applies to irrespective of any innocent or ...

A layman's guide to the law' is the most recent initiative to bring the law to the general mass. The book is a compilation of 84 selected articles were regularly published in Dhaka Tribune's weekly law page.