Arafat Ibnul Bashar

With the participation of students and people from all walks of life, the students and masses have brought down the previous regime. While we look forward to a new start, we must not forget the atrocities, violence, and crime spree that took place during and after the uprising.

On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion in Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

On May 20, 2024, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, announced that he would seek issuance of arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Minister of Defence,

On 2 February 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its judgment on the preliminary objections brought by the Russian Federation regarding jurisdiction and admissibility in the case filed by Ukraine concerning Russia’s invasion in 2022.

Most recently, South Africa has instituted proceedings in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel, accusing it of violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to its military operations against the Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In academia, plagiarism— the act of borrowing someone else’s work without giving due credit is treated as an offence— almost as a mortal sin.

On 18 April 2023, Bangladesh ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which will enter into force for Bangladesh on 17 July 2023.

We shouldn't let the line between work hours and personal hours become blurred

The notion of access to internet as a fundamental human right has been growing exponentially.

Recently, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in the case of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, Suraweera Arachchige Wasantha and others, ordered the police inspectors liable for a fake encounter and custodial death and also the State to pay compensation to the widow of the deceased victim of the encounter.

In the case of Reference re Secession of Quebec, the Supreme Court of Canada observes that “the viability of a would-be state in the international community depends, as a practical matter, upon recognition by other states”.

Although water is an essential element for human survival, access to water was not recognised as a human right when most fundamental rights were adopted under the International Bill of Human Rights. The reason behind this might be that none had predicted that a time would come when water would become insufficient for the masses.

The European Parliament recently approved the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, popularly referred to as EU Copyright Directive.