Taqbir Huda

'JUSTICE' IN PRACTICE

The writer is a trainee-advocate at Chancery Chambers in Bangladesh and a legal volunteer at the Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights (BSEHR - Manabadhikar).

How medical evidence is used to discredit rape complainants

The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.

1y ago

A company’s negligence killed 44 people. What price will it pay?

Another brutal reminder that worker safety is last on our list of priorities for our progressive and developing country.

2y ago

National Legal Aid Day: Three ways to improve our national legal aid system

Today marks the National Legal Aid Day, which was introduced by the government in January 2013, in an effort to increase public awareness of national legal aid services.

2y ago

Where is our independent prosecution service?

Although we frequently hear calls for justice whenever a grievous crime takes place, the role of public prosecutors, i.e. the very individuals who conduct criminal cases in court on behalf of the state, is seldom—if ever—discussed.

2y ago

Where can domestic violence survivors actually go?

On this year’s International Women’s Day, which is being celebrated across Bangladesh and with much grandiosity in Dhaka, I want us all to think of Yasmin Ara, a young woman from Satkhira, who has been thrown out of her home by her mother-in-law a few months after losing her husband.

2y ago

We need a state compensation fund for victims of violent crime

Whenever a violent crime like gang rape or custodial torture takes place, we are quick to demand justice for it.

2y ago

How the Banani rape verdict exposes the rape culture in our courtrooms

On November 11, 2021, Mosammat Kamrunnahar, judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 7 in Dhaka, reportedly asked the police “to refrain from receiving a case if a rape victim comes to the police station after 72 hours of the incident” since “semen cannot be traced after 72 hours.”

3y ago

Three months after the Hashem factory fire, has there been any ‘justice’?

Today, October 8, marks three months since the deadly Hashem Foods fire, which claimed the lives of at least 54 people. Out of those killed, at least 17 were children. Out of these 17 children, at least 11 were girls.

3y ago
March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023

How medical evidence is used to discredit rape complainants

The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.

June 7, 2022
June 7, 2022

A company’s negligence killed 44 people. What price will it pay?

Another brutal reminder that worker safety is last on our list of priorities for our progressive and developing country.

April 28, 2022
April 28, 2022

National Legal Aid Day: Three ways to improve our national legal aid system

Today marks the National Legal Aid Day, which was introduced by the government in January 2013, in an effort to increase public awareness of national legal aid services.

April 4, 2022
April 4, 2022

Where is our independent prosecution service?

Although we frequently hear calls for justice whenever a grievous crime takes place, the role of public prosecutors, i.e. the very individuals who conduct criminal cases in court on behalf of the state, is seldom—if ever—discussed.

March 8, 2022
March 8, 2022

Where can domestic violence survivors actually go?

On this year’s International Women’s Day, which is being celebrated across Bangladesh and with much grandiosity in Dhaka, I want us all to think of Yasmin Ara, a young woman from Satkhira, who has been thrown out of her home by her mother-in-law a few months after losing her husband.

December 9, 2021
December 9, 2021

We need a state compensation fund for victims of violent crime

Whenever a violent crime like gang rape or custodial torture takes place, we are quick to demand justice for it.

November 16, 2021
November 16, 2021

How the Banani rape verdict exposes the rape culture in our courtrooms

On November 11, 2021, Mosammat Kamrunnahar, judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 7 in Dhaka, reportedly asked the police “to refrain from receiving a case if a rape victim comes to the police station after 72 hours of the incident” since “semen cannot be traced after 72 hours.”

October 8, 2021
October 8, 2021

Three months after the Hashem factory fire, has there been any ‘justice’?

Today, October 8, marks three months since the deadly Hashem Foods fire, which claimed the lives of at least 54 people. Out of those killed, at least 17 were children. Out of these 17 children, at least 11 were girls.

July 29, 2021
July 29, 2021

Why is child labour still legal in Bangladesh?

What were you doing on a Thursday morning when you were 14?

July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021

We should stop calling acts of corporate manslaughter ‘accidents’

For almost 24 hours last week, the Hashem Food factory in Naryanganj, where hundreds of workers are employed, was up in flames.