Though the history of 'legal humanitarianism' from a trans-border perspective is traceable to European times, especially the Enlightenment, and the development thereof is mostly of 'Geneva origin', the jurisprudential facets of this sacred 'canon' underlay the actions that possibly predates written history.

High Court stays a move to transfer a case against an army officer over the torture of his wife to military court from a special tribunal.

Audi AlteramPartem (No man shall be condemned unheard) is a basic principle of natural justice that means no one is to be condemned, punished, or deprived of his/her life or property in any judicial proceeding, unless he/she has had an opportunity of being heard.

YES you got it right, the man on the right is taking a piss; slow and relaxed as if there is no tomorrow. Why is the person on the left running? Probably running away from the awful stench?

Right to food though is not an age old notion but now people all over the world including the people of Bangladesh are more or less familiar with this very concept.

Children being in one of the most vulnerable groups of the society, need special care in handling especially in case of delinquency.

It appears from recent newspaper reportings in India and Bangladesh that India has not deviated from her decades old plan of massive inter-linking of river plan to divert substantial amount of water from Brahmaputra to her South West region. It is learnt that our Ministry of Water Resources has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the Indian Government to know her position and also to let India know our position on the issue. We are yet to know whether such communication has at all taken place, and what is the outcome of any communication if it has taken place.

Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or

Bangladesh is still tender in entering into reciprocal bilateral Preferential Trade Agreements in comparison with multilateral Preferential Trade Agreements.

Mutation means insertion of the name of the new owner in the Khatiyan (Record of Rights) instead of the former owner after transferring the ownership of a

Supreme Court scrapes International Crimes Tribunal-2 ruling imposing Tk 5,000 fine on Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury for contempt of court after he apologised unconditionally.

A' offered 'B' through facebook to enter into a contract and 'B' accepted the offer. Is it a valid contract? The Contract Act, 1872 is silent regarding facebook, twitter, email or any other modern mode of communication.

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.