RIGHTS ADVOCACY
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.
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
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
Rights Advocacy / 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.
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.
Rights Advocacy / 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
Rights Advocacy / 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.
Rights Advocacy / 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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.