Someone having some or all of the primary characteristics of both genders, male and female, is identified as Hermaphrodite/Khuntha/Intersex person (commonly known as Hijra in Bangladesh).

On October 10, 2018 Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted a seminar titled ‘Compensation as a Constitutional Remedy for Violations of Fundamental Rights’ as part of its Law in Practice Seminar Series at the BILIA auditorium.

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.

The Norwegian Nobel committee said that Denis Mukwege, a doctor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, and Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old Yazidi activist, had been awarded the prize “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.

In Bangladesh, the standard of proof in prosecution of crimes is beyond-every-reasonable-doubt. And any contradiction(s) within the entire fabric of the case can weaken the prosecution by casting doubt on the story propounded thereby.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 3 October 2018 ordered the United States to remove any restrictions on the export of humanitarian goods and services to Iran after it challenged new US sanctions in July.

Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) organised a two-day workshop on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) from 5th October to 6th October, 2018was at Shohagpolli, Gazipur. The workshop was participated by diverse law professionals and NGO representatives as well as lawyers from different places of Bangladesh.

The recently approved Road Transport Act 2018 has long been in the works but was accelerated for enactment by the Bangladesh Parliament in response to the groundbreaking student protests for road safety in August 2018. The Preamble to the 2018 Act states that it is being passed with a view to replacing the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983 keeping provisions largely unchanged save where change was necessary to modernise the law and satisfy the demands of the day.

2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence, marks the International Day of Non-violence.

Recently, the Supreme Court of India has become very enthusiastic to declare the archaic Victorian value influenced laws unconstitutional.

The Digital Security Act (DSA) 2018 aims to ensure digital security by punishing offences committed through digital media.

Barrister Rashna Imam, advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Managing Partner of Akhtar Imam & Associate, has been chosen as Asia 21 Young Leader of 2018, from Bangladesh.

On 8 September 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted an expert consultation seminar titled ‘Rethinking the Definition of Rape and Our Understanding of Consent’ in the BILIA Auditorium.

The Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised the '1st Senior Advocate Ozair Farooq Memorial Law Conference 2018' on September 16-17, 2018.

The draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 aims to make labour law worker-friendly while regulating the conduct of workers and owners in compliance with the standards of International Labour Organization (ILO).

While writing the majority opinion in the Government of Bangladesh and Others v Advocate Asaduzzaman Sidddiqui and Others (2017) CLR (Spl) 1 [hereinafter 'the 16th Amendment Case'],

The Liberation War Museum’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) has found that the Rohingya people have been the victims of genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In its recent empirical study conducted among the Rohingya people who fled the violence and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar after the 25th of August 2017, the CSGJ research team found credible evidences of genocide under international criminal law.

The pioneer organisation in mooting in Bangladesh, the Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS), organised its signature annual event, the 8th Inter Year Moot Court Competition from September 14-18, 2018.

American gun violence is “a human rights crisis” and the US government's refusal to pass gun control laws represents a violation of its

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a