Accessible book format for the persons with visual impairments

Intellectual property (IP) system often faces ethical conundrums when it comes to serve the poor segment or to secure larger societal goals instead of protecting corporate interests. Likewise, book famine for visually impaired persons or persons otherwise with print
19 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Is ”Legal Aid” a constitutional right?

Political philosopher Charles de Montesquieu said, “In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
6 May 2019, 18:10 PM

Protecting the workers of informal sector

International Labor Organization has demonstrated in its recent report that there are 2 billion workers across the world working in the
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Three dimensions of access to justice for achieving SDGs

Goal sixteen of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pledges 'ensuring access to justice for all' as a target to be achieved.
18 March 2019, 18:00 PM

CHILD REPRESSION AND KILLING: Issues and the ways out

Child repression and killings have, in the last few years, increased precariously across the country, and the questions that have come to the forefront of the media relates to why such crimes have been increasingly taking place in Bangladesh and how the same can be combated nationally.
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Protecting 'Climate Induced Migrants' of Bangladesh

The annual report 2017 of Internal Displacement Monitoring Center-Bangladesh shows that, Bangladesh is impregnated with 946000 internally displaced people.
26 November 2018, 18:00 PM

On norms of custody and guardianship

In Bangladesh, we follow Family Courts Ordinance, 1985 and Guardians and Wards Act, (GWA) 1890 while dealing with cases related to custody and guardianship of children.
12 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Women's workplace in legal profession

The Constitution of Bangladesh envisages work as a right, assures the equality of opportunity and pledges to ensure participation of women in all spheres of public life.
8 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Ensuring rights of the Harijan community

GOD has created us as equal but we the human beings have differentiated ourselves in many division, sub-division and so on.
17 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Protecting privacy in biometric data

Nowadays biometric technology is increasingly used for a wide range of activities ranging from identity authentication to border security, voting system, health care, education and so on.
9 July 2018, 18:00 PM

Purchasing impunity in the name of 'compensation'?

On 19 June 2018, a pedestrian was struck and killed by a speeding SUV near Mohakhali flyover in Dhaka.
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Unjustified termination of workers

MR. Ahmed (pseudonym), started his career with one of the renowned real estate companies in the Dhaka. After 21 years of continuing service, the company terminated him from his service with immediate effect without any prior notice. Finding no other option Mr. Ahmed contacts with a lawyer to get his termination benefits and now his case in pending before the Labour Court, Dhaka. This is the common scenario of the employment sector of Bangladesh.
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

AN ASPECT OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Article 39 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and expression. Freedom of expression ranges from the
14 May 2018, 18:00 PM

THE ROHINGYA CRISIS at ICC and UNSC

The widespread violence against Rohingya Muslims causing civilian deaths, rapes, and forced deportation to Bangladesh has been
30 April 2018, 18:00 PM

THE RTI MECHANISM: Issues of public interest and time duration

Right to information has been the foundational basis of all rights. The UN General Assembly declared this right during its very first
26 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Child marriage: A maze of dialectics

A High Court Division (HCD) bench comprising of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah, has issued a suo motu
6 November 2017, 18:00 PM

On legal position of triple talaq in Bangladesh

The Supreme Court of India, by a majority decision of 3:2, has pronounced the Muslim practice of instant triple talaq unconstitutional as it is violative of several provisions of the Constitution of India.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

To rehabilitate juvenile offenders

Alarge number of children in Bangladesh are facing violence in a wide range of settings including family, schools, workplaces,
10 July 2017, 18:00 PM

FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY IN BANGLADESH

Energy, being the pre-requisite for all developments, is inevitable for emerging economies like Bangladesh to continuously run all the
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Legal framework for Samaritans

On 30 March 2016, the Supreme Court of India presided over by the Hon'ble Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Hon'ble Justice Arun Mishra
17 April 2017, 18:00 PM