Recognised as a human rights violation back in 1970s, enforced or involuntary disappearance is now unanimously accepted as one of the gravest crimes in today's world.

When parents are separated through divorce, guardianship of their children is determined by the Gaurdian and Wards Act, 1890 and Family Court

Rape is one of the most heinous criminal offences occurring in Bangladesh. From January to September 2014, a total 527 incidents of rape or attempt to rape was documented in Bangladesh by Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK). Among these only 291 cases were filed, 43 victims died after rape and 11 other committed suicide.

Environmentalist must have been happy to see the news of ban imposed on Shela river route published in The Daily Star on March 22, 2016. The decision

Gender equality is a procedure for sharing out resources, programmes and decision makings in a way that ensures equal distribution of the resources,

SC upheld death penalty of JMB activist Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir for killing 8 people by carrying out suicide bomb attacks at Udichi and Shata Dal Shilpi Goshthi offices in Netrakona in 2005.

The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association election is here again. It is scheduled to take place on the 23rd and 24th of March 2016. The corridors of the

Reading through topical case laws is a must for all law students. This is not only confined within knowing about celebrated age-old judicial decisions, but also extends to get oneself be acquainted with newly held decisions of both home and abroad.

Cricket lovers from all over Bangladesh have been left in shock and utter disbelief by the suspension of the Bangladeshi bowlers Taskin Ahmed and Arafat

In legal parlance, when do we term the legislature utopian? It is obviously at that time, when they expect proper compliance of any legal provision without

Bangladesh is one of the earliest signatories of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the government adopted a draft policy for child

In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In the preamble of the Convention, deep concern is expressed regarding “the escalation in smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption by children and adolescents worldwide, particularly smoking at increasingly early ages”. The Convention aims to control tobacco by providing demand and supply reduction provisions including ban on sales to and by minors as a supply reduction measure.

Given the rising crisis of transnational organised crime globally, the concept of terrorism becomes very topical. The Parisian and other incidents remind us

In 1985, United Nations provides a guideline to protect consumer right for its member nations. After the long 23 years of such guideline, finally in 2009 the Government of Bangladesh enacted consumer right protection law. But it is the matter of regret, this law itself is not much consumer oriented.

“We have shattered so many glass ceilings we created a carpet of shards. Now we are sweeping away the assumptions and bias of the past so women can advance across new frontiers,” says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women's Day 2016.

In the concealment of the fact that women are in leadership positions in the central politics of Bangladesh, a critical feminist issue gets neglected: to what

In some areas Bangladesh is actually surpassing other SAARC Nations; in relation to a number of indicators of gender equality. For example, in many areas like girls' enrolment in primary and secondary schools, maternal mortality figures or women's entry into the work place, Bangladesh has excelled above many of its SAARC neighbours.

The Penal Code, 1860 in its section 124A defines the offence of sedition. According to this section, anyone who by spoken or written words, or by signs, or

Abarrister ( barrister-at-law or Bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions with a split legal profession. In England and other Common law

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, corporate law, family law, employment and labor law, land law, banking law, constitutional law, criminal law, IPR and in conducting litigations before courts of different hierarchies.