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.
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.
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.
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.
AN ASPECT OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Article 39 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and expression. Freedom of expression ranges from the
THE ROHINGYA CRISIS at ICC and UNSC
The widespread violence against Rohingya Muslims causing civilian deaths, rapes, and forced deportation to Bangladesh has been
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
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
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.
To rehabilitate juvenile offenders
Alarge number of children in Bangladesh are facing violence in a wide range of settings including family, schools, workplaces,
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