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The High Cost of Dissent: The Quota Reform Movement and Violation of Rights

In the month of July 2024, the Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh emerged as a powerful symbol for the fight for fundamental human rights, revealing the severe injustices inflicted by the government and law enforcement agencies. The Supreme Court of Bangladesh through landmark cases has recognized the fundamental right to protest against government policies. DHLR […]
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Israel-Palestine Conflict: An Expert’s Insight

On 7 October 2023, Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel, which killed almost 1,200 Israeli citizens and foreign nationals. In response to the attack, Israel launched a severe bombarding campaign and ground invasion in Gaza, which so far killed more than 35,000 Palestinian people, including over 14,000 children and more than 10,000 women, as […]
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Right to Privacy and Defamation: A Critical Analysis

The term ‘defame’ refers to causing harm to someone’s reputation by spreading false information, and causing a lot of damage as a person’s reputation is typically worth more than their actual assets. According to English law, defamation is generally classified into two categories: libel and slander. In English Law, there are distinctions between libel and […]
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Towards the Recognition of a Right to Remedial Rebellion in International Law?

1. Introduction Nowadays the vast majority of armed conflicts are non-international in character. While international law regulates extensively the use of force among states, internal conflicts are beyond the reach of the law in terms of jus ad bellum. Accordingly, non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) are neither lawful nor unlawful under the current legal framework. This […]
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From the Court Corridor: August Edition

This edition of ‘From the Court Corridor’ curates notable pronouncements of the High Court Division (HCD) and the Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh during August. In August the HCD partially resumed physical hearing for the first time since March 2020. The chief justice constituted 18 regular benches for the physical […]
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State v Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs: The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Human Rights Violation by Mobile Courts

In 2017 the High Court Division (hereinafter HCD) declared mobile courts led by executive magistrates as illegal holding that it is ‘a frontal attack on the independence of the judiciary and is violative of the theory of separation of power.’ However, the judgment has, since then, been stayed by the Appellate Division (hereinafter AD). Meanwhile […]
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The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 of India: Navigating Murky Waters for the Future of Individual Privacy

The main aim of this article is to delineate privacy as an individual right with respect to the Indian scenario and to show how the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 is a divergence from that idea. It took about 60 years for Indians to have their right to privacy cemented. The first time when the […]
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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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The High Cost of Dissent: The Quota Reform Movement and Violation of Rights

In the month of July 2024, the Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh emerged as a powerful symbol for the fight for fundamental human rights, revealing the severe injustices inflicted by the government and law enforcement agencies. The Supreme Court of Bangladesh through landmark cases has recognized the fundamental right to protest against government policies. DHLR […]
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Prospects and Limitations of Environmental Law and Policy: An Analysis

Bangladesh has various environmental policies, legislations, environmental institutions, and international conventions to which it is a party. There are approximately 200 laws, relating to the protection of the environment but their proper application in preserving the environment is not practically visible. The Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1995 The Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1995 (BECA) is […]
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