Being one of the fundamental human rights and the foundations for lifelong learning, literacy is considered to be a key driver for sustainable development.

The rate of violence against women is increasing year after year. According to Report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad more than 4,500 women and children were subjected to rape, acid attack, physical torture, suicide and other forms of violence in 2014 alone.

The position of Bangladesh, in relation to the domestic application of international law, is characteristised by the ambiguity of constitutional and statutory provision.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approves a charge sheet against 14 people, including Bismillah Group’s Managing Director Khaza Solaiman Anwar Chowdhury, for embezzling Tk 110 crore from Shahjalal Islami Bank.

The High Court summarily rejects a writ petition that challenged legality of the much-talked-about Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act.

In Bangladesh, our Criminal Justice System does not allow us any separate sentencing hearing on the background of accused persons.

Genetically modified Organism (GMO) is basically an organism (plant, animal or microorganism) created by application of bio-

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 30 August,

Recently, a letter threatening to kill 19 persons including ministers, teachers, cultural activists, Ganajagaran Mancha organisers and

The Supreme Court orders former assistant police commissioner Akram Hussain to trial court in seven days in the sensational BBA student Shamim Reza Rubel murder case.

Think Legal Bangladesh, an online legal resource platform based at www.thinklegalbangladesh.com, held its 3rd Lecture in its Think Legal Lecture Series last Saturday, 22nd August, 2015 at Dhanmondi's EMK Centre.

Education is both a human right in itself and an indispensable means of realising other human rights.

Agenda 21, a comprehensive action program adopted at the historic Rio Conference of 1992, was designated to integrate the goals of continued economic development and environmental protection.

It is imperative in the interest of free speech, democracy and ultimately rule of law that we continue to condemn this piece of legislation which is nothing but a 'black law' waiting to be struck down by our Hon'ble Supreme Court or repealed by the parliament when good sense prevails.

My husband and I got married in 2003. Both of us are Muslims and we got married as per the Islamic procedure. The marriage took place at our village in the presence of the Quazi and our family members.

World Humanitarian Day (19 August) is a time to recognise those who face danger and adversity in order to help others.

The continuous ruthless killings, torture and abuse of children in Bangladesh are turning into a daily life phenomenon that we fail to prevent let alone stop.

Though the history of 'legal humanitarianism' from a trans-border perspective is traceable to European times, especially the Enlightenment, and the development thereof is mostly of 'Geneva origin', the jurisprudential facets of this sacred 'canon' underlay the actions that possibly predates written history.

High Court stays a move to transfer a case against an army officer over the torture of his wife to military court from a special tribunal.

Audi AlteramPartem (No man shall be condemned unheard) is a basic principle of natural justice that means no one is to be condemned, punished, or deprived of his/her life or property in any judicial proceeding, unless he/she has had an opportunity of being heard.