Seminar on prevention of sexual harassment held at DIU

The Committee to Prevent Sexual Harassment of Daffodil International University (DIU) and the Bangladesh Mahila Parisad (BMP) in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden, jointly hosted the seminar and exchange meeting on ‘implementing the directives of the high court division regarding prevention of sexual harassment’ at the 71 Milonayoton of DIU on October 25, 2018. Professor Yousuf Mahbubul Islam, Vice Chancellor, DIU was present as the Chief Guest while Ms. Ayesha Khanam, President, Central Committee, BMP attended the event as the Guest of Honor. Professor Dr. Farhana Helal Mehtab, Chair, Committee to Prevent Sexual Harassment, DIU presided over the seminar.
3 November 2018, 07:38 AM

BLAST holds expert consultation seminar on ensuring witness protection in rape trials

On 22 October 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted a seminar titled ‘Ensuring Witness Protection in Rape Trials’ at the BILIA Auditorium, Dhaka.
31 October 2018, 18:00 PM

The British Academy writing workshop held

A three-day writing workshop for the South Asian early career researchers was held at Independent University,
29 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Mediation to resolve migration related disputes

A case takes decades to resolve in our judicial setting. Accustomed to that idea, people have become reluctant to take matters to the court nowadays.
29 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Dr. Shahabuddin from Birmingham Law School delivered inagural lecture in BUP Law Lecture Series 2018

The Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) organised its very first Law Lecture Series on 17 October 2018, Wednesday on the topic of postcolonial boundaries, international law, and the making of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
18 October 2018, 08:12 AM

Reconceptualising FET standard in international investment arbitration

In the realm of international investment treaties, Fair and Equitable Treatment (hereinafter, FET) has over the years been considered as a core investment protection standard. In the same breath,
15 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Legal implication of Myanmar's claim over St. Martin

After Myanmar's circulation of a false picture (which claimed to show insurgents training while it was actually a photograph of Bangladeshi freedom fighters during the Liberation War), the Government of Myanmar has yet again come up with another false claim showing Bangladesh's St. Martin's Island as part of its territory.
15 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Right to inheritance of the Hijras in Bangladesh

Someone having some or all of the primary characteristics of both genders, male and female, is identified as Hermaphrodite/Khuntha/Intersex person (commonly known as Hijra in Bangladesh).
15 October 2018, 18:00 PM

BLAST holds seminar on compensation for the violations of fundamental rights

On October 10, 2018 Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted a seminar titled ‘Compensation as a Constitutional Remedy for Violations of Fundamental Rights’ as part of its Law in Practice Seminar Series at the BILIA auditorium.
15 October 2018, 10:15 AM

'Good guy versus bad girl' syndrome

In Bangladesh, the standard of proof in prosecution of crimes is beyond-every-reasonable-doubt. And any contradiction(s) within the entire fabric of the case can weaken the prosecution by casting doubt on the story propounded thereby.
8 October 2018, 18:00 PM

US must allow humanitarian trade with Iran

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 3 October 2018 ordered the United States to remove any restrictions on the export of humanitarian goods and services to Iran after it challenged new US sanctions in July.
8 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Workshop on PIL organised by ASK

Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) organised a two-day workshop on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) from 5th October to 6th October, 2018was at Shohagpolli, Gazipur. The workshop was participated by diverse law professionals and NGO representatives as well as lawyers from different places of Bangladesh.
7 October 2018, 07:26 AM

Compensation under the new Road Transport Act: A critique

The recently approved Road Transport Act 2018 has long been in the works but was accelerated for enactment by the Bangladesh Parliament in response to the groundbreaking student protests for road safety in August 2018. The Preamble to the 2018 Act states that it is being passed with a view to replacing the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983 keeping provisions largely unchanged save where change was necessary to modernise the law and satisfy the demands of the day.
2 October 2018, 07:15 AM

International day on non-violence

2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence, marks the International Day of Non-violence.
2 October 2018, 04:34 AM

'Adultery' decriminalised in India

Recently, the Supreme Court of India has become very enthusiastic to declare the archaic Victorian value influenced laws unconstitutional.
1 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Barrister Rashna Imam recognised as Asia 21 Young Leader 2018

Barrister Rashna Imam, advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Managing Partner of Akhtar Imam & Associate, has been chosen as Asia 21 Young Leader of 2018, from Bangladesh.
29 September 2018, 09:41 AM

BLAST holds seminar on definition of rape and understanding of consent

On 8 September 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted an expert consultation seminar titled ‘Rethinking the Definition of Rape and Our Understanding of Consent’ in the BILIA Auditorium.
26 September 2018, 02:33 AM

Conference on 'Law, Justice and Society' held at DU

The Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised the '1st Senior Advocate Ozair Farooq Memorial Law Conference 2018' on September 16-17, 2018.
24 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Revisiting the majority opinion in the 16th amendment case

While writing the majority opinion in the Government of Bangladesh and Others v Advocate Asaduzzaman Sidddiqui and Others (2017) CLR (Spl) 1 [hereinafter 'the 16th Amendment Case'],
24 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Genocide in Rakhine

The Liberation War Museum’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) has found that the Rohingya people have been the victims of genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In its recent empirical study conducted among the Rohingya people who fled the violence and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar after the 25th of August 2017, the CSGJ research team found credible evidences of genocide under international criminal law.
24 September 2018, 11:46 AM