A news report and an editorial from the New Age, sent by odhikar, forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Bangladesh: Victims of Custodial Torture Cry for Justice in a Public Trial. Mock trial calls for prosecution of people involved ...

Military tribunal hearings against members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) accused of participating in a February 2009 mutiny continued through 2011. Military courts convicted nearly 1,000 soldiers in mass trials that did not meet fair trial standards, among other things ...

Has any member of the Government actually read the recent Human Rights Watch report alleging custodial deaths, torture and unfair trials following the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny. The law minister’s speedy dismissal of the allegations as ‘false, baseless and concocted’ would ...

Human rights in Bangladesh are enshrined as fundamental rights in Part III of the Constitution of Bangladesh. However, constitutional and legal experts believe many of the country's laws require reform to enforce fundamental rights and reflect democratic values of the 21st century. Proposed reforms ...

About fifty thousand prisoners are accommodated in these jails. But in reality more than one lakh prisoners live in prison cells. All prisoners are not guilty. But the majority is under trial. Besides the jails, there are many correction centres ...

The Government of Bangladesh has shown commitment to improving the situation in prisons and to consider the overall reform of the criminal justice system. The Ministry of Home ¬Affairs and the Prison Directorate are working with the ¬support of the ...

Climate change in Bangladesh is a pressing issue. According to National Geographic, Bangladesh is one the most vulnerable nations to the impacts of climate change.Bangladesh being located on the Tropic of Cancer receives fairly direct radiation throughout the year & maintains relatively ...

National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability ...

Mitigation is the most contentious issue in the negotiation process; Commitment by Annex I Parties so far falls far short of what Bangladesh along with G77 and China and LDCs are asking for; on the contrary the advanced developing countries ...

Individual Labor Law is a branch of law that deals with the relationship between the employer and employee, without involvement of trade unions. Any agreement which deals between employer and individual employee (which does not involve union) comes under Individual ...