Legal empowerment of the poor is seen as a pre-condition for eradication of poverty today. But are the global anti poverty programmes really bringing the needed relief to the world's poor? What is the position of urban population living in extreme poverty in this regard? Exploring the much needed answers to these questions, two renowned researchers spoke in a symposium before a concerned audience on Saturday, January 2nd 2015.

Much has been written about the alleged banking scams in HallMark Group and also about the swindling of public money in BASIC Bank. These incidents appear to be outright scams and the magnitude of the money and people involved in them are very worrying and surely they entail outright squandering of

Legislature passed seventeen Acts in 2015, some of which directly signal the progress towards achieving technological and scientific development goals as promised in the government's manifesto. Whereas in 2014, the Parliament was more inclined towards enacting laws which regulated various aspects of education and tourism, in 2015 there was an ascension in tendency of addressing emergency situations, such as, inimical use of formalin in food.

Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) of Liberation War Museum (LWM) organised its 2nd Winter School on “Genocide,

On 21 December 1965, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2106, which established the International Convention

This has been often a common phenomenon in Bangladesh that female workers give birth at their work places like factories or mills.

In Bangladeshi parlance, the Urdu-speaking Muslim people who had migrated to the then East Pakistan from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and

We are a UK-based international charitable organisation planning to open an office in Bangladesh. However, we are receiving

No doubt, thanks are owed to Md. Rizwanul Islam for his bold observation that there are some misconceptions about the functionality

This is a common perception that only lower class people are responsible for anti-social behaviour in our country. But such a

With the passage of time, technology is becoming small but smart, intelligent, more accurate, powerful and precise. One of the reasons

Since Its establishment in 1945, the United Nations (UN) has been playing the role of a pioneer in institutionalising human rights...

It is common knowledge that authoritarian regimes (both unelected regimes and elected regimes subsequently turning into tyrannies)...

At the very outset let me, on behalf of JAMAKON – the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh, extend heartiest greetings to

In the spirit of World Human Rights Day 2015, to make people aware of fundamental freedom and rights, and to provide them a platform to come...

In the previous issue, an announcement for short legal write-up competition was published where the email address for submitting write-up was mistyped.

ANTI-SMOKING groups hailed Quebec's new tobacco-control law Friday as a world precedent. “We're thrilled,” said Flory Doucas, co-director of the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control.

An acid attack is a wrath hit which is a form of vicious assault. It is an act of acid throwing or a similarly corrosive substance onto...

About three months ago, Mr. Huq and his three friends had gone on an excursion to Faridpur district. During a meal at the popular...

It is no surprise that we are witnessing a constant rise in hacking incidents of databases of governmental organisations in Bangladesh, making the whole situation of sharing personal data online even more distressing.