Right to education (in one’s mother language)

To promote multilingualism, to protect endangered languages, and to preserve linguistic diversity, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared 21st February as the “International Mother Language Day” back in 1999.
26 February 2024, 18:00 PM

On price hike and legal redress

In our country, unusual price hike for essential commodities has been used as a magic wand by the business class. They exploit the situation
22 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh should incorporate the Rohingya scenario within its forthcoming ICCPR report

Bangladesh submitted its initial state party report to the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the monitoring body for the implementation of the
24 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Are we validating child marriage through ‘special circumstances’ provision?

Marrying off of female children at an early age is not a new phenomenon in the Indian subcontinent. Due to socio-economic reasons, people very often let their female children marry at such a young age which is not permitted by law.
28 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Trade Union: The collective voice against workers’ predicament

In our country’s perspective as well as worldwide, formation and joining into trade union is now a recognised right.
6 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Right of the taxpayers to protect personal data

Data protection and privacy are recognised as fundamental rights. An individual’s ‘private life’ includes the protection of his or her personal
30 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Effectiveness of ‘local settlement’ practice for protection of Rohingyas

Since 2020, the Government of Bangladesh has been relocating the Rohingyas to Bhashan Char. The UN and other agencies initially criticised the relocation process.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Equilibrium within international economic and environmental laws

The implications of international economic law for transferring environment-friendly technologies and protecting non-economic values have become a major concern in governing economic relations around the world. In the last decades, the international environmental laws have had noteworthy influence on international economic law. It is vitally important that the industrialised countries actively play their role to decrease carbon footprints on the planet.
25 March 2022, 18:00 PM

On territorial sovereignty and its impact on neighbouring state

Among the 54 rivers shared with our neighbouring country India, the past research reveals that the Teesta river basin is seemingly the most sensitive one considering its geographic stand point.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM

A call for overhauling the probation system

Under the supervision of a probation officer, the probationers are often discharged on the conditions to perform social, and community works like planting trees, reading books, taking care of elderly parents and children, etc.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM

The Right to Repair and IP Rights in Bangladesh

Most of the corporations aim to block repair through making new devices such that they are even hard to be repaired by the third-party repairers much less the consumers.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM

The issue of competition law compliance for the e-commerce sector

Businesses are constantly complaining against the anti-competitive behaviours of the e-commerce platforms. The accusations against them are quite templatic: deep-discounting, self-preferencing, manipulation in search ranking, misuse of consumer data.
10 December 2021, 18:00 PM

The use of foreign judgment in the legal system of Bangladesh

The judicial use of international laws, judgments in formal adjudicative courts is being seen and recognised around the world to an increasing extent.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM

Resolving disputes without involving the court

Mediation is one of the alternative ways of dispute settlement without taking resort to legal actions, whereby the parties select their mediator(s) and resolve disputes maintaining utmost confidentiality.
12 November 2021, 18:00 PM

The dynamics of Rohingya repatriation today

The safe repatriation of the Rohingya peoples has been much talked for a while; but during the pandemic, the relevant stakeholders have lightly taken the efforts to initiate the said repatriation.
15 October 2021, 18:00 PM

Preventing wrongful imprisonment: The importance of introducing digitalised biometric identification

Zahir Uddin is the vice-principal of a madrassa with no criminal record. He was shocked when one fine day the police raided his house and harassed him.
4 October 2021, 18:00 PM

Protecting rights of performers on digital networks

In early days producers and performers of creative works could monetise the showing or viewing of performances effectively by selling tickets at the venues.
30 August 2021, 18:00 PM

COVID-19 and Human Rights

While countries around the world work to contain and limit the spread of COVID-19, certain human rights and allowable derogations become
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM

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