David Ormon Carter is a Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. David began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in 1972 where he became the senior deputy district attorney. 

While addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 28, 2022, Mechelle Bachelet, the UN human rights chief, raised an important point on the rise in disinformation across societies, remarking that systemic inequality has helped fuel a rise in the deliberate spreading of falsehoods.

Bangladesh is party to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). On ratification, the UNCAC created legal obligations which have to be enforced by the executive branch and/or the judiciary of the state parties.

Heavy rains along with the continued onslaught of water from upstream locations in India marooned Sylhet and the neighboring districts jeopardising the residents’ fundamental rights.

Effortless smoking in public places or public transport is nothing new. To control smoking in these public places/transport, we have a special law called the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act 2005.

Extending Intellectual Property (IP) protection to plant varieties – especially in the context of developing and agriculture-based economy like Bangladesh – is fraught with debates.

According to the Child Marriage Restrain Act of 2017, the contracting, allowing, solemnisation and registration of the child marriage a punishable offence. The Act has repealed the previous Act of 1929. The present Act does not invalidate the child marriage, rather impose penalty for such marriage. Section 7 of the Act imposes punishment on the persons for contracting child marriage, while section 8 punishes the parents for allowing child marriage. In addition, section 9 provides penalty for the persons who solemnise or conduct the child marriage. Again, section 11 of the Act makes the registration of the child marriage a punishable offence. The section goes on to say that,

The fundamental mandate of the Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) is to address the issues of marginality and exclusion in the country.

The government of Bangladesh passed the Competition Act in 2012. The primary purpose of enacting this law is to promote, ensure, and sustain a congenial atmosphere for the competition in trade and prevent, control, and eradicate collusion, monopoly, oligopoly, combination or abuse of powerful positions or activities adverse to the competition.

The legal framework for dispute resolution through alternative methods has reached a level of maturity in Bangladesh.

Department of Law at Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) and BUP Law and Moot Court Club (BUPLMCC) jointly organised a

Earlier this year, research report titled “Impact of easy accessibility of pornography on the internet and its relevance with violence against women and girls in Bangladesh” was published by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

More often than not, the statutes remain silent or they do not have enough words to meet the requirements of establishing justice.

Alternative Dispute Resolution methods, particularly arbitration has become increasingly popular in Bangladesh over the last two decades, so much so that a separate law on arbitration was enacted to accommodate it.

Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and a founding Editor-in-Chief of Business and Human Rights Journal.

The draft law appears to have been only prepared to fulfill the state’s prior commitments to enact an anti-discrimination law, but there is clear lack of thought behind making the law effective.

On 5 April 2022, Law Minister Anisul Huq has placed the ‘Anti-Discrimination Bill 2022' in the parliament. The Bill is now with the parliamentary committee of the respective ministry for further examination.

Consumers want goods or services from businesses at competitive prices. Competitive business enterprises come together to form trade associations in the hope of furthering their common interests.

In many instances, an Act of Parliament includes a provision allowing the government or the relevant authority to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the concerned Act. Under an Act of Parliament, the rules are framed as directives and/or instructions for the users of the legislation in question. If rules are framed as such, more clarity is brought about and confusion about many provisions of the relevant statute gets dispelled. It also helps to carry out the purpose of the legislation in line with the intention of the legislature. 

Until June 2019, various international instruments, norms, and practices were developed by both the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations to deal with violence and harassment at workplace.