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.

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.

“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.

Law, ethics, values and morality forms an integral part of the society. Law is omnipresent whereas ethics, values and morality are the inner instinct. Their blend is a requirement for the amicable survival of the society especially for the protection of the children. In Bangladesh a large number of children are deprived of their basic human rights due to unacceptable health, nutrition and education as well as social conditions. In addition, recently children are facing violence in a range of settings including at home and in the family, in schools and in care and justice systems, in workplaces and in the communities.

World Day of Social Justice is a relatively new edition to the diverse string of international observance days as declared by the United

Delegated legislations are in some ways a familiar paradox in modern liberal democracies. On the one hand, in essence, they being laws

Mahmudul Islam, not only a famous lawyer but also an eminent personality in our judiciary who passed away at the age of 79 on 16

On 18th and 17th February, more than 70 entrepreneurs of Union Digital Centers (UDC) in Sirajganj and Joypurhat districts received day

We often think about victims' rights and restorative justice, but how many of us think about offenders' rights and their re-integration into the society? In our

After what had begun to appear as a stale mate, the government has finally approved of the Draft Policy for Domestic Workers. The policy was endorsed and subsequently given a go-ahead in a regular cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on 21 December 2015.

Many readers might come across the news on children planners published in the back page of The Daily Star on 14 January 2015. 'Children the planners'

An indigenous student of Dhaka University, who resides in Jagannath Hall, was stating his happiness with the state language as well as feeling sorry for his

We often think that preparing for law school always has to be purely academic. Yes, it has to be; but at the same time there's plenty we

Law of the sea is a branch of public international law governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),