UNITED Nations made strong calls with the international community to take practical steps to break down the barriers of inequality by doing more to empower individuals through decent work, provide adequate social protection, and ensure the voices of the poor are heard on the 20th February 2015 by observing the World Day of Social Justice.

WHEN we talk about right to food, at first instance, people gets confined to the idea of providing food assistance to the poor as a sign of kindness to the poor where approach appears as faulty. Providing food assistance to the poor by the state is not a charity work, it is part of right of the poor people to get direct food considering that they are in the situation of not being able to secure their food by themselves.

Divorce is a procedure whereby the married couple decides to separate and break all the vows that were taken during the sacred ceremony of a marriage. In Bangladesh the Hindu women are suffering greatly to seek divorce or to demand compensation from husbands.

AS an emotional nation, the month of February reminds us the right to language. This right is recognised in the entire world but its protection is not guaranteed with the same gravity.

Countrywide political terrorism and agitated entreaty of the victims and their family for 'justice' require a revisit whether our 'sentencing policy' and 'penal scheme' are capable of providing them 'just remedy' or widely cherished 'justice'.

This is undeniable that the quality of legal education in Bangladesh has been failing to satisfy the global standard of studying law. The general misunderstanding about the concept of university education may be the major cause of this failure.

NADI (not real name) filed a case accusing Sagor (not real name) of luring her into an affair with false promises of marriage. She also brought allegation of rape and cheating against the accused Sagor. In our country and many other parts of the world such kind of incidents are happening every now and then. Only few victims dared to get redressed by Law.

WHEN we see hermaphrodites or commonly known as Hijras collecting money from the people for their own maintenance in the streets, our heart skips a little beat with a fear of being harassed. But we never think for a while that what the reason behind they beg for money.

BANGLADESH being part of the Indian subcontinent has been traditionally following the pluralistic legal system. Under this system there is no unified body of family law that is uniformly applied to every citizen of the land irrespective of his or her ethno-religious background.

THE senior United Nations officials on February 5, 2015 addressed the Commission for Social Development as it marked the 20th anniversary of the Copenhagen Declaration regarding 'the need to put people at the centre of development' with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

BANGLADESH is considered as a popular source in South Asia from which women are trafficked to India and other Gulf countries.

States possess broad authority to regulate the movement of foreign nationals across their borders. They exercise their sovereign powers to determine who will be admitted and for what period.