I am working in a private organisation and am currently pregnant. I have seen that, whenever any female employee becomes pregnant the organisation terminates her to avoid providing maternity benefit.

Bengali educated class have typical aversion to the word “clerk” and the class it denotes, so to appease their anxiety we would like to clarify at the beginning that, contrary to the word “clerk” is used, law clerks do almost no clerical jobs.

THE treatment of children in judicial proceedings around the world, both civil and criminal, is not satisfactory and often “unacceptable,” the UN human

We often sense the scream and see the gloomy faces of the ill fated migrant workers who have been hidden in the shadow of our society. Unfortunately their

Nazrul Islam is the Bangladesh Country Director for Relief International (RI), a US based international non-government organization that provides development services in more than 20 countries.

A mother usually bears the main responsibility of childcare work in family life. Father's has also duty to take care of both mother and child. Father plays a

Bangladesh Bank circulated a notice published in 'Daily Prothom Alo', in April, 2015 asking for general recommendations that it is going to enact an Act on payment system entitled 'Payment System Act 2015.'

During the past several months, I was assisted by two volunteer law students attending Dhaka University, on my research on the labour conditions in the garment industry in Bangladesh.

With an aim to protect the rights of Bangladesh's economic migrants by enhancing the capacity of National Human Rights Commission, the UNDP-Bangladesh has recently published a study report titled 'Protecting Migrant Workers from Bangladesh: A Study of Legal Compliance with Migrant Workers' Rights' (2014).

The United Nations General Assembly on June 19 approved by consensus a new resolution to commemorate 19 June as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Reality shows that in Bangladesh sons are considered as future heads of the family, who will be able to assist and provide for their parents in their old age. In such social pattern, sons are viewed as assets and girls as liabilities.

A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.

The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.

The shade of good administrative law largely relies on the expansion of legal aid concept.

First ever South Asia Right to Food Conference was held in Dhaka during May 30-31 and June 1, 2015.

I am a 27 year old girl currently residing in Dhanmondi.

WITH many of the earth's ecosystems nearing “critical tipping points,” the United Nations invited each of the seven billion people on the planet to mark this year's World Environment Day by making one change towards a more responsible consumption of resources – “be it refusing to buy single-use plastic bags or riding a bike to work.”

The judicial system is a powerful tool at the heart of women's rights enforcement, along with the lawyers that fight for the rights of their clients.

One in every 10 cigarettes consumed is illicit, making them cheaper and more accessible to people from low-income groups, as well as

Silvaster works in a gas station near La Brea, Los Angeles. This gas station is a place of regular police petrol from Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Most often, the petrol officer in charge send disguised employees into the store to see whether anyone is breaking