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Safe motherhood entails a serious consideration of ensuring safe maternal and reproductive healthcare services. Yet, women in our country often face the challenge of trading off their health safety for childbirth.
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(Trans)gender and the Question of Constitutional Membership
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Legal consequences of NGO registration
NGOs have been proliferating at both national and international levels because of their role in formulating and shaping the policy of a state as wtell as their humanitarian contributions through aid and other services. Bangladesh, being no exception to that, has also been swayed by the massive expansion of NGOs. According to the NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh, as of 2020, a total of 2543 NGOs are currently operating in Bangladesh comprising of both local and international NGOs. However, an automatic functioning of an NGO-like entity does not lead to the attaining the status of an NGO in Bangladesh. It is also important that such an entity is duly registered. In this regard, Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Act, 2016 (FDRA) is the primary legal instrument detailing...
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Star’s Law Desk orients its new pool of contributors to the techniques of research and writing
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Understanding the concept of ecocide
Recent proposed definition of ecocide by Stop Ecocide Foundation to be included in Rome Statue as a fifth core crime along with the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression has aroused both academic and policy debates all over the world.
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Obstetric violence and women’s human rights in Bangladesh
Safe motherhood entails a serious consideration of ensuring safe maternal and reproductive healthcare services. Yet, women in our country often face the challenge of trading off their health safety for childbirth.
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(Trans)gender and the Question of Constitutional Membership
Gender appears to be a hackneyed topic in our country. If not, it is a ghost that necessitates fighting when it comes in conflict with our so-called social and religious values.
January 7, 2023
Legal consequences of NGO registration
NGOs have been proliferating at both national and international levels because of their role in formulating and shaping the policy of a state as wtell as their humanitarian contributions through aid and other services. Bangladesh, being no exception to that, has also been swayed by the massive expansion of NGOs. According to the NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh, as of 2020, a total of 2543 NGOs are currently operating in Bangladesh comprising of both local and international NGOs. However, an automatic functioning of an NGO-like entity does not lead to the attaining the status of an NGO in Bangladesh. It is also important that such an entity is duly registered. In this regard, Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Act, 2016 (FDRA) is the primary legal instrument detailing...
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Cyber harassment - What to do if someone is harassing you online
The conventional understanding of sexually harassing someone offline is widely known. However, for the last few years, with the rise in
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Star’s Law Desk orients its new pool of contributors to the techniques of research and writing
To write a legal article may ostensibly be a difficult task. After all, it often requires a closer inspection of legal intricacies, an ability to formulate
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Understanding the concept of ecocide
Recent proposed definition of ecocide by Stop Ecocide Foundation to be included in Rome Statue as a fifth core crime along with the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression has aroused both academic and policy debates all over the world.
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