• GoB Gazette Notification on Virtual Court

• স্বাস্থ্য ও পরিবারকল্যাণ মন্ত্রণালয়ের পরিপত্র–২১ জুলাই ২০১৯

• DSS circular on Children Act 2013

• GoB Gazette Notification Granting Recognition to Hijras
   
• Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh Ministry of Education Circular: To improve the toilet and sanitation conditions in secondary and higher secondary schools, madrasas and technical & vocational institutions [Bangla / English ]

• GoB Gazette Notification on Civil Courts (Amendment) Act 2016
   
• National Legal Aid Services Organization Notification
• Govt Gazette on National Legal Aid Organization (ChawkiAdalot- Committee, responsibilities and Functions) Regulations, 2016

Rana Plaza Cases updates including Writ Petitions pending in different Courts

Judgments on Children’s Rights

• Name of Parties: Anika Ali v RezwanulHasan
  Issue: Child custody – views of the child to be taken into consideration
  Law: Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Name of Parties: AbulHossain v Government of Bangladesh
  Issue: Duty of Nikkah Registrar to ascertain the age of the bride and groom before solemnization of marriage
  Law: Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929
• Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA) v Bangladesh & Others Protection of children employed as domestic workers

• BNWLA v Bangladesh (Writ Petition No. 4781 of 2010) – Mandatory Use of National ID Cards for Marriage Registration

• Suo Moto No.1-2010, The State v The Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh – Illegal arrest and detention of children aged 14, 9 and 7 years in jail.

• Suo Moto No.15-2010, The State v The Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh – Illegal detention of child prisoners in jails instead of correction centres

Judgments on Women’s Rights

• Name of the Parties: Ain O Shalish Kendra v Bangladesh63 DLR (2011)
  Issue: Maintaining safe and healthy conditions of employment atBidi factories and eliminating child labour
  Law: Constitution of Bangladesh
• Name of the Parties: Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association v Bangladesh
  31 BLD (HCD) 2011
  Issue: Inclusion of domestic workers within the definition of ‘worker’ in the Labour Act.
  Law: Labour Act
• Name of the Parties: Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association v Bangladesh31 BLD (HCD) 2011
  Issue: Definition of sexual harassment and stalking and guidelines for the Government to combat them
  Law: Constitution of Bangladesh
• Name of Parties: BNWLA v Gov’t of Bangladesh 31 BLD (HCD) 2011 -324
  Issue: Sexual harassment at the workplace
  Law: Constitution of Bangladesh

• Name of Parties: Mohammad Tayeeb&Anr v Gov’t of Bangladesh &Ors. 29 BLD (HCD) 183
  Issue: Issuance of Fatwa
  Law: Constitution of Bangladesh

• Name of Parties: Dr. ShipraChoudhury&Anr v Gov’t of Bangladesh 29 BLD (HCD) 183
  Issue: Right of free choice of adult men and women to enter into marriages, and the banning of forced marriages in Bangladesh
  Law: Constitution of Bangladesh

Other Human Rights Cases in South Asia

 

Country: India
Name of the Parties: National Legal Services Authority v Union of India
Writ Petition No. 604 0f 2013
Issue: Legal recognition of the transgender community as a third gender; reservation in employment and education for the transgender community
Law: Constitution of India, 1950

Country: Pakistan

Suomoto actions regarding suicide bomb attack of 22.9.2013 on the Church in Peshawar and regarding threats being given to Kalash tribe and Ismailies in Chitral SMC No. 1 of 2014
Issue: Protection of rights of religious minorities: constitution of task force, National Council for Minorities’ and special police force for protection of religious minorities
Law: Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Citizenship Laws

 

• Report on Citizenship Law: Bangladesh
• Rule of Law Monthly Report – February 2021

Children’s Rights

• শিশুদের প্রতি সব ধরনের শারীবীক শাস্তি নিষিদ্ধকরণ : শিশু ও তরুণ বয়সীদের জন্য প্রশ্নোত্তর
• শিশুদের প্রতি সব ধরনের শারীবীক শাস্তি নিষিদ্ধকরণ : বহুল জিজ্ঞাসিত প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
• স্কুলে শারীরীক শাস্তি নিষিদ্ধকরণ : বহুল জিজ্ঞাসিত প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
• UNGA Resolution 2017 Focus : Ending Violence Against Children
• Regional Action Plan to End Child Marriage in South Asia (2015-2018)
• Asia-Pacific Council for Juvenile Justice Newsletter | Date: July 2016
• Center for Reproductive Rights, Report on Child Marriage in South Asia: Stop the Impunity.
• CRIN: Bangladesh: Access to Justice for Children
• UNICEF Report, Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects
• UNICEF Report, Juvenile Justice in Bangladesh

CEDAW

• CEDAW and CRC Call on States to End Harmful Practices Against Women and Girls
• CEDAW General Recommendation on Women’s Access to Justice
• UN Women’s CEDAW Knowledge & Advocacy Products

Disability Rights

• International Principles and Guidelines on Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities
• Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
• Sexuality and Disability
• Report on Current Status of Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh 2015
• Women’s Global Disability Rights Advocacy Report

General Human Rights Resources

• Practice Note: The Law Against Torture, Redress, July 2020
• Materials and Resources: Honour Crimes Project: SOAS
• Use of RTI Act in Investigative Journalism অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকতায় তথ্য অধিকার আইন
• London Declaration on Inclusive Governance for a Renewed Commonwealth
  Human Rights Forum: Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Bangladesh, April-2013, Advocacy Briefer
• Human Rights Forum: Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Bangladesh, April-2013, Completion of Report
• The Lund-London Guidelines: Guidelines on International Human Rights Fact-Finding Visits and Reports
• A Selected Bibliography: Legal Development and Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh
• United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice System
• US State Dept., Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
• Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota
• Jurisprudence: OHCHR Online Database of UN Treaty Bodies
• United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems

Human Rights – SDG

• A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO DATA : LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND IN THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• High-Level Dialogue on Customary and Informal Justice (CIJ) and SDG16+

Human Rights Watch Report

• “Will I Get My Dues…Before I Die?” Harm to Women from Bangladesh’s Discriminatory Laws on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce
• ‘আমার পাওনা… মৃত্যুর আগে কি পাবো?’ বিবাহ, পৃথক বসবাস এবং তালাক বিষয়ে বাংলাদেশের বৈষম্যমূলক আইনঃ নারীর বঞ্চনা ও ক্ষতিরউপাখ্যান

Indigenous Rights

• ILO Report: Monitoring Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights Through ILO Conventions
• Indigenous Peoples & National Human Rights, Institutions in Asia: Good Practices and Challenges
• Kapaeeng Foundation’s Human Rights Report on Indigenous People of Bangladesh

Land Rights

• প্রস্তাবিত ভূমি অপরাধ ও প্রতিরোধ আইন, ২০২১
• সমতলে আদিবাসী জনগোষ্ঠীর ভূমি অধিকার সুরক্ষায় কার্যকর আইনী সংস্কারের দাবীতে স্মারকলিপি
• ICRW, How Do Community-based Legal Programs Work?: Understanding the Process and Benefits of a Pilot Program to Advance Women’s Property Rights in Uganda

• Strategic Litigation Impacts Insights from Global Experience by Open Society Justice Initiative

Medico Legal Evidence Collection Standards

• CEHAT Manual for Medical Examination
• US Department of Justice National Protocol for Sexual Assault Forensic Medical Examination
• WHO Guidelines for Medico Legal Care for Victims of Sexual Violence

Police

• The Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2018- A Study of Performance and Perceptions

Prisoner’s Rights

• Agreement between the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Government of the People’s Republic of  India on Transfer of Sentenced Persons
• E-course on Women in Detention: Putting the UN Bangkok Rules into Practice
• UN Bangkok Rules toolbox

Right to Freedom from Torture

• Coalition Against Torture: Criminalize Torture, 26 June, 2009 [English, PDF]
• NIPSA Newsletter 2, July 2012
• Police Accountability and the ‘Rule of Politics’

Right to Health

PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY |  Muhd. Rafiquzzaman

Rights of Sexual Minorities

• UNDP: Blueprint for the Provision of Comprehensive Care for Trans People and Trans Communities in Asia and the Pacific
• WLUML, Dossier 32-33: Sexualities, Culture and Society in Muslim Contexts

Right to Food

• REPORT ON PARTICIPATORY FOOD SECURITY POLICY MAPPING IN BANGLADESH 2018 Published by RDRS

Rohingya Response

• Beyond Refuge: Advancing Legal Protections for Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Unite For Reproductive Rights
• ARROW Advocacy Brief on SRHR (Bangla)
• C-355/2006: Excerpts from Colombia’s Constitutional Court’s Decision that Liberalize Abortion Laws
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
• World Bank, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Dhaka Slums, Bangladesh, Knowledge Brief 2014
• Report of the Videoconference on HIV-related Legal Services in South Asia, December 2011 IDLO – 17Feb2012
• Growing Up Safe and Healthy (SAFE): Baseline report on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women and girls in Dhaka slum : INTRODUCTION
• Growing Up Safe and Healthy (SAFE): Baseline report on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women and girls in Dhaka slum: MARRIAGE AND DOWRY
• Growing Up Safe and Healthy (SAFE): Baseline report on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women and girls in Dhaka slum: KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS 
• Growing Up Safe and Healthy (SAFE): Baseline report on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women and girls in Dhaka slum: SPOUSAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
• Growing Up Safe and Healthy (SAFE): Baseline report on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women and girls in Dhaka slum: VIOLENCE AGAINST UNMARRIED ADOLESCENT GIRLS

UN Treaty Bodies – Bangladesh Reports

• Citizens’ Initiatives on CEDAW, Bangladesh (CIC-BD): Alternative Report

Vested Property Return Act 

• অর্পিত সম্পত্তি প্রত্যর্পন আইন বাস্তবায়ন জাতীয় নাগরিক সমন্বয় সেল– এর প্রস্তুতকৃত লিফলেট
• অর্পিতসম্পত্তিপ্রত্যর্পণআইন, ২০০১ এর সংশোধনকল্পে প্রণীত আইন;
• গেজেট– ১১ডিসেম্বর২০১১
• প্রজ্ঞাপন– ২মে, ২০১২
• অধ্যাদেশ– ২৭আগস্ট, ২০১২

Women’s Rights

• Women’s Access to Justice through Family Courts: A Study of Two Family Courts in Dhaka
• BLAST sent notice demanding Justice against sexiest job circular issued by Bangladesh Bank
• Report of Expert Consultation: Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in the Cyber Age
• Avon Global Center’s Women & Justice Collection
• AWID: List of Materials and Resources for Women Human Rights Defenders
• Bibliography on Gender, Women and Domestic Violence
• Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto: Women’s Human Rights Resources Database
• UNDP: Enforcing Rights and Correcting Wrongs Overcoming Gender Barriers in Legal Systems

Violence Against Women

• Asmita Basu, ‘Use of Medical Evidence in Rape Cases in Bangladesh’ (2012) 
• Trust Law, ‘Character Evidence in Rape Trials: A Comparative Study of Rape Shield Laws and the Admissibility of Character Evidence in Rape Case’; (2015) Research note by Norton Rose Fulbright (South Africa) for the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) p.2
• Fact Sheet: Forced Marriage
• Remedies for Forced Marriage
• COVOW Initiative Training Schedule (Bangla): “Cost of Violence Against Women”
• Domestic Violence Programs Serving Muslim Communities [Directory]
• From Fatwas to Freedom: Protecting Women’s Rights in Bangladesh – Arafat Hosen Khan
• Forum on Women’s Issues [Directory]
• Honor Based Violence Awareness Network (HBVA)
• Multi-sectoralProgramme on Violence Against Women, Ministry of Women & Child Affairs, E-newsletter 2012
• Press Statement: Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences finalises country mission to Bangladesh
• Rape and the Law: The Post-Delhi Syndrome
• Right to Choice in Relationships: AALI, 2011, Compendium
• Statistics from the Peaceful Family Project
• World Bank, Violence Against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia
• পারিবারিক সহিংসতা প্রতিরোধ ও সুরক্ষা বিধিমালা, ২০১৩

Worker’s Rights

• Bangladesh Bureau, Manpower, Employment and Training
• ILO Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (2011)
• ILO Recommendation Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (2011)
• Information Portal of Returnee Migrants in Bangladesh

Others

• Family Courts in the CHT: At the Intersection of Gender and Ethnic Identity
• Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering
• Equal Rights Review
• Global Hunger Index 2015

• High Court, Supreme Court of Bangladesh: Presenting Arrestees Before Media Illegal [Court Order]

• Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Regional Initiative for South Asian Human Rights Mechanism: Dhaka Consensus
• 4th UMSAILS-UAP lecture held on 05 April 2021

Anti-Discrimination

• The Anti-Discrimination Act (Draft), 2014 (বৈষম্য বিরোধী (খসড়া) আইন, ২০১৪) by Law Commission
• Draft of Anti-Discrimination Act submitted by the National Human Rights Commission
• UN Recommendations on Non-Discrimination and Anti-Discrimination Act

Civil Court

GoB Gazette Notification on Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill 2016