Year-end Law Review / Reviewing the laws enacted in 2024
9 January 2025
The year 2024 presented new hopes for Bangladesh. New laws and ordinances were enacted, some old laws were revised as the spirit of reforming the state touched the legal landscape.
9 January 2025
Right to education (in one’s mother language)
26 February 2024
To promote multilingualism, to protect endangered languages, and to preserve linguistic diversity, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared 21st February as the “International Mother Language Day” back in 1999.
26 February 2024
YEAR-END JUDGMENT REVIEW / Notable Decisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh
4 January 2024
In view of the end of 2023, the write-up compiles certain landmark decisions that were handed down by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh last year.
4 January 2024
Environmental law / Laws and policies on plastic waste management
20 July 2023
Plastic waste disposal is a serious issue for Bangladesh with only a small portion of the nation’s annual plastic waste production – which is estimated to be 2 point 4 million tons – getting recycled.
20 July 2023
For your information / Mobile Financial Services (MFS) regulation in Bangladesh
18 May 2023
Mobile Financial Services (MFS) generally refers to electronic money services provided against a particular mobile or cell phone number of a client (termed as mobile account), where the record of funds is stored on the electronic general ledger.
18 May 2023
For Your Information / Banning of the BFF General Secretary and FIFA’s legal procedure
27 April 2023
On 14 April 2023, the apex controlling body of football – Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) – sanctioned Abu Nayeem Shohag, General Secretary of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for violating several provisions of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE) (2023 edition).
27 April 2023
LAW REVIEW / Looking back at the laws enacted in 2022
29 December 2022
2022 has been a busy year with a plethora of new legislations enacted. The Jatiyo Sangsad ( ”Parliament”) enacted a total of 21 legislations and amendments regulating different sectors. A notable few have been discussed below for the readers.
29 December 2022
Rights Watch / How to seek information under the Right to Information Act 2009
24 November 2022
Right to Information is one of the internationally recognised human rights. In 2009, we made a Right to Information Act to empower the
24 November 2022
50 Years of Bangladesh Constitution In a nutshell
Given effect from 26 March 1971, the Proclamation along with the Laws Continuance Enforcement Order, 1971 played a huge role in restoring internal legal system and solidifying the creation of the new sovereign state.
3 November 2022
Why quota reservation is significant for ethnic minorities
Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract” is the theme to celebrate this year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Unfortunately, the government had decided to scrap quotas for class-I and Class-II jobs in Bangladesh in October 2018, following large scale protests in the country. The quota system was introduced through an executive order in 1972 and has been amended several times since. Before the abolition of the quota system in first and second-class government services, 5 per cent quota used to be allocated for the ethnic communities. Quota system was introduced to facilitate representation of a portion of ethnic minorities in government services.
2 August 2021
The story of Ranyaful
In Chakma literature, Ranyaful refers to a kind of wildflower that grows without much care in the mountains. In Rangamati, a production house has started its journey under the name ‘Rannayful,’ to reintroduce and revive the ethnic crafts through their products.
28 March 2021
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation and its constitutional status
Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), is the only extensively hilly area in Bangladesh. Many indigenous communities have been living in this area from time immemorial.
30 November 2020