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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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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