Climate change-induced challenges have been slowly but gradually grappling South Asia through tentacles of heatwaves, droughts and floods.

The Domestic Violence Prevention and Protection Act, 2010 deals with such cases in Bangladesh. The enactment of this Act was the outcome of an alliance between State’s obligations under the Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and nongovernmental advocacy. Domestic violence was recognised as a violation of human rights in 1993 with an obligation on the state parties of CEDAW to work towards a definitive legal framework that would raise awareness, prevent and ultimately help the society get rid of domestic violence.

The increasing power and influence of corporations in the last few decades has brought human rights debate in the forefront of business.

On the hearing of a plea in connection with internet shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir since early August, the Supreme Court (SC) of India has declared that freedom of speech and expression through the medium of internet is a fundamental right that can only be curtailed in situations of public emergency or in the interests of public safety.

On June 25, 2019, an editorial of The New York Times was published based on the Georgia v Public.Resource.Org (a case about whether the State of Georgia can assert copyright in its annotated state code).

2019 has witnessed numerous landmark judgments by our apex courts. As 2020 dawns upon us, let’s revisit some of these notable verdicts.

A total of 9 laws has been passed last year by the Jatiyo Sangsad (National Parliament) in Bangladesh regulating different sectors such as labour, education, social welfare, specification, agriculture, animal welfare. Some of the significant Acts of parliament are summarily discussed in this write-up for the readers of The Daily Star.

The Noise Pollution (Control) Rules 2006 were adopted under Section 20 of the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act 1995 with a view to laying down the specific guidelines regarding noise pollution and the degree of allowable noise in different areas.

Recently, Telenor, the principal investor of Bangladesh’s leading mobile phone operator Grameen Phone, has served a legal notice to the President of Bangladesh seeking arbitration regarding the dues of Tk 125.79 billion of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to Grameenphone. The service of notice by a foreign company to the head of a sovereign state stimulates a debate regarding the legality of the notice.

The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh organised the 15th edition of Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Lecture on 26 December 2019 in its premises.

Human beings do not want to live as refugees which is completely a form of leading very inhumane life. In today’s global order, refugee crisis is one of the very complex challenges for the politically less-influenced countries.

On 20 December 2019, Ms Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced that the preliminary examination found the situation in Palestine to have met all the statutory criteria under the Rome Statute for the opening of an investigation.

Of late, the social media and news media in Bangladesh have been brimming with questions and concerns about The Gambia’s case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This essay will briefly address a few of such questions which are of legal nature.

If you are reading this from a city in a high-income country, you have about a one in two chance of breathing in air that exceeds World Health Organisation guidelines for air pollution.

Myanmar’s military committed extensive atrocities against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. These atrocities reached the peak during the military-led brutal ethnic cleansing campaign, beginning in mid-2017.

Member of the Parliament from one of the women’s reserved seats, Ms Tamanna Nusrat’s loathsome forgery in public examination, her permanent expulsion from the Open University and a subsequent expulsion from the local unit of the ruling party have put the whole fabric of parliament’s institutional morale in question.

Human rights education teaches more than the mere definition of human rights. It enables a person to know about his actual legal rights, ways to safeguard those rights and teaches respect to the rights of others.

If we scrutinise only article 27 of the constitution of Bangladesh, it should be enough to understand that every citizen stands equal and must get equal protection of law.

Doesn’t it happen too often that we are talking about buying a product via messaging apps and the next thing we know an advertisement of the same product pops up in our social media feed? It somewhat feels like someone is keeping track of our conversations but in reality, all forms of our data existing online, for example (but not limited to) our public posts, search histories, private conversations are being accumulated as big data.

When speaking about laws and legal framework in general, the state of economic as well as political world order has always been relevant.