Author: Rokeya Chowdhury

Rokeya Chowdhury is a human rights activist and Lecturer at Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka. At present she is carrying her Doctoral Research as an O’Brien Fellow at Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University. She is the author of “Manual for Human Rights Defenders" published by National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh. Rokeya’s research interest includes human rights, interdisciplinary legal studies and comparative law.

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Strengthening Domestic Climate Governance: Legal Lessons from the ICJ Advisory Opinion for Bangladesh’s Climate Justice and Accountability Framework

Introduction Bangladesh is a country highly vulnerable to sea-level rise, erratic monsoons, and extreme weather events. It is considered to be at the front line of the current global climate crisis. Being a core proponent of requesting the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the matter, Dhaka took the world’s most existential challenge to […]
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A Critical Assessment of the CrPC Amendment Ordinances 2025 with Dr Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman

DHLR: Section 54 of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (CrPC 1898), as amended, tightens the scope of arrest without warrant by distinguishing between offences punishable with imprisonment for a term up to seven years and those punishable with more than seven years. In the former case, police may arrest without a warrant only if […]
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