Promoting Responsible Business Practice for Sustainable LDC Graduation

The Bangladesh Country Session at 3rd UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights was held on 28 March, 2022 under the theme ‘Promoting Responsible Business Practice for Ensuring Sustainable LDC Graduation of Bangladesh’ in a hybrid format.
1 April 2022

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.
25 March 2022

Why Bangladesh’s abstention from the UN resolution on the Ukraine war is justified

The UN General Assembly emergency session adopted a resolution against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine on 2 March 2022. It was adopted by 141 votes of total 193 members with 5 negative votes and 35 abstentions of which Bangladesh was one.
25 March 2022

An appraisal of the price-hike in light of Constitutional commitments

The misery of the poor and middle class people outspread across the market of daily commodities due to the skyrocketing price.
16 March 2022

Contribution of Bangabandhu to the development of juvenile justice system

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had undertaken a number of initiatives for the overall development of the children.
16 March 2022

Why Bangladesh’s abstention from the UN resolution on the Ukraine war is justified

The UN General Assembly emergency session adopted a resolution against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine on 2 March 2022. It was adopted
13 March 2022

The development aspirations of a nation cannot be fulfilled unless women are integrated within the process

Law Desk (LD): What lessons can we take from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to protect women from facing differentiated impacts of disasters/public health crises?
11 March 2022

Time to take CEDAW seriously

The Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the key international human rights treaty to oppose the effects of discrimination against women and to ensure gender equality worldwide. CEDAW, also known as the Women’s Bill of Rights was adopted in 1979; came into force in 1981 and to date, 189 states-parties have ratified it.
11 March 2022

Military Junta representing Myanmar at the ICJ

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has recommenced The Gambia v Myanmar case hearing. It has approved the military junta government to represent the case on behalf of Myanmar.
4 March 2022

The Ukraine crisis amid fractured international legal order - hypocrisy of powerful

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine once again has solicited world attention to the international legal order that has repeatedly been fractured by powerful states in the post-cold war era.
4 March 2022

BUPLMCC successfully organises LawRencia: A law career-based event

From 25-27 February, Bangladesh University of Professionals Law and Moot Court Club (BUPLMCC) organised a law career-
2 March 2022

On the law of probation and parole

Conditional discharge, probation, parole, furlough etc. are the alternatives to imprisonment for accused. Those can be availed depending on the gravity of the offence and the relevant circumstances as a reflection of reformative theory of punishment.  
25 February 2022

Implementing UNGPs to hold the industries accountable for environmental damage

The economy of Bangladesh has seen tremendous growth in the recent past that helped the country graduate from LDC to middle income country.
25 February 2022

On territorial sovereignty and its impact on neighbouring state

Among the 54 rivers shared with our neighbouring country India, the past research reveals that the Teesta river basin is seemingly the most sensitive one considering its geographic stand point.
18 February 2022

Headscarves: Liberalism, secularism and human rights regime put to question

Headscarves are garments mostly worn by Muslim women across the world as per religious obligations. But many educational institutions do not allow headscarves in the campus.
18 February 2022

Legal annotations regarding virtual company meetings during pandemic

With the pandemic, almost every type of functionary came to a standstill except the very essential ones. But as life must go on, the humankind has found ways to carry on with life.
11 February 2022

Formation and functions of a Collective Bargaining Agent

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a renowned law firm, namely, ‘Legal Counsel’, which has expertise mainly in commercial law, family law, labor law, land law, constitutional law, criminal law, and IPR.
11 February 2022

Importance of autopsy report in the administration of criminal justice

According to Modi’s “Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology” (12th ed.), the object of the post-mortem examination of a body is to establish its identity when not known, and to ascertain the time since death and the cause of death; natural or unnatural, homicidal, suicidal or accidental.
4 February 2022

Rights Watch: Against the retention of death penalty

In the past, almost all countries practised the execution of the death penalty. As much as the idea of human rights, the rule of law and democratic
4 February 2022

Reviewing the New Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones Act

The new Act seeks to amend the Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones Act 1974. The provisions of the 1974 Act were not coherent with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and were proposed to be amended since the UNCLOS 1982 entered into force later.
28 January 2022