EVERY doctor has professional, legal and moral duty towards his patients. It is their duty to extend medical assistance to save the life of patients.

FOR the cover of the latest edition of his popular book called Constitutional Law of Bangladesh, Mr. Mahmudul Islam, who is a former Attorney General of Bangladesh, chose a tastefully grim and grey picture of the Supreme Court building taken against the backdrop of an overcast sky.

DEFINITIONS of most crimes committed in worldwide real space are gender neutral although a significant number of crimes are committed mostly against women.

Compared to the other countries, good number of laws exist in Bangladesh, specifically addressing violence against woman .

DESPITE of woman's participation in the socio-economic and political development, woman has less access to enjoy their money, especially in their property rights.

VIOLENCE against women (VAW) is marked as misdeed committed against the female members of the family, colleagues at office, and classmates in the educational institution and so on.

ORGANISED by Liberation War Museum (LWM), a three-day international conference on 'Bangladesh Genocide and Justice' has been held at CIRDAP, Dhaka. From February 27 till March 01, 2015, the conference was attended by scholars, teachers, researchers, human rights activists, government officials, lawyers, judges, university students and many others from home and abroad. Honorable Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Mr. Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali MP inaugurated the conference.

MANY of the readers must have been touched by the story of injured Tara and his 12-year-old son Sujan appeared in the front page of The Daily Star on February 8, 2015 entitled “He had a choice: Starving to death”.

ON the month of February The article “Status of 'Bangla' in legal arena” was a timely publication in the same page. The author Dr. Nahid Ferdousi, rightly observed the dilemma of using mother language in all official procedure of Apex Court. Her appeal to respect the martyrs of the Language Movement is morally legitimate, concerns for the interest of uneducated litigants in understanding the reasoning behind judgment does not necessarily go amiss.

WHILE reading a book called 'Freedom is not free', by Shiv Khera, I find an undeniable truth that every generation needs to earn its own freedom. That means freedom is not free, in order to achieve freedom there should be some sacrifice.

SEMINAR titled “Judicial Activism & Judicial Self Restraint”, organised by the faculty of law, Dhaka International University (DIU) was held on 22 February. Barrister Shameem Haider Patwary, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, DIU presided over the seminar while Dr. Adish C Agarwala, President, International Council of Jurists & Chairman, All India Bar Association addressed the seminar as chief guest and key note speaker of the seminar.

THE people of Bangladesh have a long history of love and liability towards mother language. The struggle of making Bangla the state Language is one of the rarest incidents of the world history. The main object of our language movement was firm establishment as well as to ensure extensive practice of Bangla language in every sphere of our national life.

UNITED Nations made strong calls with the international community to take practical steps to break down the barriers of inequality by doing more to empower individuals through decent work, provide adequate social protection, and ensure the voices of the poor are heard on the 20th February 2015 by observing the World Day of Social Justice.

WHEN we talk about right to food, at first instance, people gets confined to the idea of providing food assistance to the poor as a sign of kindness to the poor where approach appears as faulty. Providing food assistance to the poor by the state is not a charity work, it is part of right of the poor people to get direct food considering that they are in the situation of not being able to secure their food by themselves.

Divorce is a procedure whereby the married couple decides to separate and break all the vows that were taken during the sacred ceremony of a marriage. In Bangladesh the Hindu women are suffering greatly to seek divorce or to demand compensation from husbands.

AS an emotional nation, the month of February reminds us the right to language. This right is recognised in the entire world but its protection is not guaranteed with the same gravity.