After 7th Parliament elections in 2001, Bangladesh Nationalist Party gained a majority, largely on the basis of their law and order and national security policies within Bangladesh...writes P.M. Serajul Islam
2013-04-05 12:55:36
Britain`s highest court for the first time convened behind closed doors -- in a case involving an Iranian bank -- just one week after the Supreme Court decided it had the power to sit in secret.
2013-04-03 23:05:11
WHEN Myanmar’s newly installed president and former soldier, Thein Sein, kick-started the country’s political transition two years ago, he hoped to usher in a clean and steady advance towards some sort of orderly democracy. Now, however, things are starting to turn out rather differently.
2013-04-02 22:53:20
Speakers at a seminar in Southeast University underscored the need for arbitration for reducing the backlogs of commercial cases in Bangladesh...writes Emdadul Haque
2013-03-31 22:14:00
The concept of sustainable development is inseparably linked to the concept of environmental justice and generational obligation. It is because of the acts we do and do not- have the affect on the lives of the future generation. It is worldwide acceptable that the people of today has obligation for the generation of the future.
2013-03-27 14:32:59
Bangladesh, a developing country, though holding quite a small area is flooded with uncountable problems. Among these, eve-teasing, recently has become the burning issue for the country because of its adverse effects on women, especially to the teenage girls...writes P.M. Serajul Islam
2013-03-26 16:57:41
IN 1961 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and put him on trial for crimes committed 20 years earlier. Eichmann had been secretary at the Nazis’ Wannsee conference that led to the Holocaust. His trial in Jerusalem was a model of meticulous process...The Economist
2013-03-23 18:37:30
Extra judicial killing is one kind of offense. Any peaceful man does not expect extra judicial killing. In our country extra judicial killing is occurred by our law enforcing agencies...writes P.M. Serajul Islam
2013-03-18 22:27:23
Right to life and personal liberty are the most appreciated and vital fundamental human rights around which other rights of the individual rotate...writes P.M. Serajul Islam
2013-03-17 21:42:01
The rape and murder of a girl on December 16, 2012, in New Delhi by criminals including a person a few months short of 18 years has triggered a debate about the law relating to criminal responsibility of juvenile offenders in India...writes RR Kishore
2013-03-16 18:18:21
If you are a victim of systematic discrimination and exclusion from key sectors of society, publicly fuelled prejudices and vilification based on national myths, acts of vandalism and desecration, prohibition or disruption of religious ceremonies, threats and acts of violence, interference in your community’s internal affairs, you probably belong to a religious minority.
2013-03-15 14:22:11
And rightly so. Any citizen of Pakistan who demands his rights under the constitution must first affirm his loyalty to it...writes Ahmer Bilal Soofi
2013-03-10 19:16:45
Almost every girl and woman – regardless of age, social status or choice of attire – who has walked the streets or taken public transport in Cairo, has experienced some form of verbal or physical sexual harassment..Amnesty International
2013-02-19 21:50:06
In a bid to ensure free and fair elections and curb the use of money power, the Election Commission has disqualified as many as 2,171 candidates for failing to furnish details of expenditure incurred while contesting Parliamentary and Assembly polls...Human Rights Desk
2013-02-16 16:07:29
Until recently, and in spite of worldwide civil society campaigns to the contrary, businesses refuted that corporations should be held accountable for human rights abuses. Human rights, it was said, existed to protect individuals from governments. Businesses, as "non-state actors", didn`t come into the picture..Human Rights Desk
2013-02-15 14:57:51