Human Rights Law

  1. Genocide and Justice Studies
  2. Human Rights Law
  3. Right to Justice

Hearing Women’s Voices: Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence during Armed Conflicts

Where is justice located? Is it in the law? In the courts? Is its aim retribution for harms incurred? Punishment and revenge? What role does the law play in reckoning and reconciling with human rights violations in times of mass violence? The first people’s tribunal in the 1960s expanded our understanding of justice beyond the […]
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  1. Court Corridor
  2. Court Corridor 2020
  3. Criminal Law
  4. Human Rights Law
  5. Right to Equality
  6. Supreme Court of Bangladesh

From the Court Corridor: February Edition

This edition of ‘From the Court Corridor’ highlights eight noteworthy pronouncements of the High Court Division (HCD) and the Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh during February.  Banning gender detection of unborn babies In January Advocate Ishrat Hasan filed a writ petition asking the HCD to prohibit the purchase, use and […]
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  1. Constitutional Law
  2. Court Corridor
  3. Court Corridor 2020
  4. Human Rights Law
  5. Prison System
  6. Right to Employment

From the Court Corridor: January Edition

In this blog, I have curated notable decisions of the High Court Division (HCD) and the Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2020. Banning single-use plastic products within one year Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) and ten other rights organizations jointly filed a public interest litigation (PIL) submitting that single-use […]
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  1. Human Rights Law
  2. International Law
  3. Right to Leave

Australia’s Visa Regime and the Right to Leave Any Country: Fostering Irregular Migration and Harm

Destination states do not wait for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to arrive at their borders. Rather, visa requirements are in place to proactively prevent certain non-nationals leaving the state they are in and their arrival at their borders. Visas represent a long-standing mechanism to control the movement of persons. Already in the 1920s, the […]
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  1. Criminal Law
  2. Human Rights Law

#SurvivedandPunished: How to Stop the Criminal Legal System from Harming Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Women subjected to abuse have been promised that the criminal legal system will help them if they report those who abuse them to law enforcement and cooperate with prosecution.  But those same systems turn punitive quickly when women act to protect themselves from their abusers.  A number of high profile cases in the United States […]
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  1. Case Comments
  2. Constitutional Law
  3. Human Rights Law

The Constitutionality of Article 35-A of Indian Constitution: Gender Justice and Beyond

A Case Commentary on Charu Wali Khanna & Another V. Union of India & Another. A recent petition filed before the Supreme Court of India demands the abrogation of Article 35-A of the Constitution of India and Note III of a 1927 notification defining “permanent residents” in the State of Jammu & Kashmir, (hereinafter J&K). […]
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  1. Constitutional Law
  2. Human Rights Law
  3. Migration Law
  4. Prison System

Compatibility of Indefinite Immigration Detention in the UK with The European Convention on Human Rights

The use of indefinite immigration detention in the UK remains extremely controversial, what with it being the only country in the EU to use it. While the European Court of Human Rights (henceforth ECtHR) in Strasbourg had the opportunity to deem this draconian practice as being incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) […]
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  1. Human Rights Law
  2. Rights of the Disabled

A Legal Assessment of the Rights of the Persons with Disability: Bangladesh Perspective

Let us begin with the description of a real-life example of discrimination which recently happened to one visually impaired student. He is Bishwajit Boshak, a meritorious student of Bandorban Shualek High School. According to Prothom Alo, Bishwajit has recently this year passed the SSC examination obtaining GPA 4.28. Completing the online college admission procedure, he […]
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Towards a Bangladesh Model BIT: The Chevron Dues and the Case for Reform

In April 2025, Bangladesh’s state-owned gas company Petrobangla cleared all of Chevron’s outstanding gas bills from previous years. Within days of this payment, Petrobangla formally urged Chevron to resume work on the stalled $65 million Jalalabad compressor project. Petrobangla Chairman told the press, ‘…we have already cleared all outstanding arrear payments of Chevron Bangladesh.’ Chevron […]
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The 15th Amendment Case before the High Court Division: An Analytical Perspective

Background On 17 December 2024, the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (SCOB) delivered a historic judgment regarding the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011 (Act No. XIV of 2011). The 15th Amendment removed the Non-Party Caretaker Government (NPCG) system for conducting general elections and made numerous other constitutional changes. This write-up […]
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