The Unseen Wounds: Psychological Injury and the Legal Fight Against Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh
The first-ever Bangladesh law against enforced disappearance, the Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025 lapsed in April 2026, following the election of the country’s new parliament. It passed after...
Gender-Based Violence and the Struggle for Justice: Rohingya Women at the Intersection of Law and Displacement
For Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the refugee camp is not simply a humanitarian space. It is a site where gender-based violence (GBV) is woven into the structures of...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives
In Part 1, I examined how Bangladesh’s interim government weaponized legal frameworks to suppress the press; Part 2 broadens the lens to parallel patterns across the wider Global South and...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 1 – Bangladesh
This two-part blog examines how transitional governments in the Global South systematically suppress press freedom through “weaponized legalism”—the use of formally legal procedures to violate fundamental rights while maintaining constitutional...
Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh
In 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued General Comment No. 26, recognising climate change and environmental degradation as urgent and systemic threats to children’s rights....
Towards an Independent Judiciary: The Case for a Separate Judicial Secretariat in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s judiciary has long struggled to transform constitutional guarantees of independence into a practical reality. While the landmark Masdar Hossain judgement in 1999 laid down the foundation for the separation...
Is Bangladesh Violating Its ICCPR Obligations?
On 29 August 2025, Bangladesh witnessed an incident where a former Minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka University Professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman, journalist Manzurul Alam, and at least 13 others were...
Mob Justice, State Failure: The Right to Life Betrayed in Bangladesh
On 18 September 2024, a man named Tofazzal Hossain was seized inside Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall at the University of Dhaka, beaten repeatedly by a group of students who accused...
For the People, By the State: Establishing a Permanent Government Attorney Service in Bangladesh to Ensure Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Government legal representation in Bangladesh’s courts remains inadequate due to a weak legal framework, politicised appointments, poor accountability, and institutional neglect. As a result, the 2025 Judicial Reform Commission Report...
Bangladesh’s National Human Rights Commission: A Watchdog Without Teeth?
The haunting image of fifteen-year-old Felani Khatun’s body hanging from a barbed wire fence after being shot by the Border Security Force (BSF,) the extrajudicial killing of 1,926 individuals over...
Breaking the Cycle of Injustice: The Global South’s Struggle to Climate Equity in International Forums
In the Global South, climate change is not merely an environmental crisis but a major human rights issue. This region experiences the most severe consequences of climate change, from rising...
When Justice Delays Justice: How Structural Judicial Failures Harm Human Rights in South Asia
In South Asia, the courts are often the last and only place to turn to for justice. But what happens when the institutions entrusted with upholding rights become complicit in...
