Thailand’s government should release ethnic Rohingya from Burma who are detained under inhumane and unsafe conditions, and ensure their protection needs are met, Human Rights Watch said on September 20. Earlier on August 13, 2013, the Thai cabinet considered a plan to transfer 1,839

After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, I sometimes wondered how things would have looked if his generals had tried to defend his 30-year regime. Now I know.Cairo is a city under the military gun. Soldiers man checkpoints scattered on main streets. Police vans and riot

The Right to Information is the key to all other rights. It is among the most important instruments to effectively empower those to whom power should belong in democracy of the people. Media both print and electronic plays a vital role to ensure the people’s right. The government of

AWAMI League led 9th parliament passed a controversial amendment of a piece of legislation titled Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013 in its current last budget session on 11 June. Interestingly, the origin of this enactment Anti-Terrorism Ordinance, 2008 was also passed by the then

A senior member of the Pakistani Taliban has written an open letter to Malala Yousafzai – the teenager shot in the head as she rode home on a school bus – expressing regret that he didn`t warn her before the attack, but claiming that she was targeted for maligning the insurgents.Adnan

Extra judicial killing in Bangladeshis are becoming like the breakfast of the rich people or like the lunch of that poor people who eats for a time in a day. Every day in the getting up or in the fast reading of daily newspapers we watch the issue or occurrence was occurred in any place

CHINA’s communists attacked many bourgeois institutions after taking power in 1949. But marriage was not one of them. On the contrary, they enacted a marriage law in 1950, four years before they introduced a constitution. The pressure to marry remains heavy in today’s China,

Families of three soldiers who were killed in Iraq in poorly-armoured Land Rovers – and those killed in a friendly fire incident – can sue the Ministry of Defence for negligence because soldiers have a "right to life," the supreme court ruled.The ruling means soldiers heading into

Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court on Tuesday recused himself from the bench hearing the appeal challenging the cancellation of Pervez Musharraf`s bail in the judges` detention case on account of what he called a smear campaign against him on social networking websites.

Burma has failed to make progress in ending its use of child soldiers nearly one year after signing an agreement with the United Nations (UN) to do so, Human Rights Watch said in a new paper released today. In June 2012, Burma and the UN signed a Joint Action Plan in which the Burmese

The Australian has yesterday reported on a spike in boat numbers, and that the election “has supercharged the people-smuggling industry”. The department of immigration and citizenship is worried that more women and children are getting on unseaworthy boats. But is enough being done

The squalid saga of secret arrests says much about how we are governed today – little of it good. To recap, Lord Justice Leveson suggested that the names of those arrested or suspected of crimes should not be released to the public or media “save in exceptional and clearly identified

Taking stock of "lessons learnt" from the recent stand-off in Ladakh after a Chinese incursion there, India and China on Monday decided on further measures for maintaining peace and tranquility along their border. This was disclosed after discussions on "mutual interest and concern"

No one should be jailed in secret, the lord chief justice has said in urgent guidance sent out to judges following the court of protection`s imprisonment of a woman for contempt.The two-page circular, released on Friday, is a swift response by the senior judiciary to concerns raised about

India and Pakistan must seize the moment to turn a crisis into an opportunity that would prevent their strained relations from reaching a breaking point. This is admittedly a tall order given the barrage of mutual recriminations that have followed the gruesome assault on Sarabjit Singh

Imagine being an international human rights lawyer. Jetsetting round the globe, setting the world`s highest courts alight with spectacular oratory performances, radically changing the lives of the most vulnerable. Hell, there`s probably a Nobel peace prize in there somewhere too

Women are most wanted subjects of literature, and Bangladeshi women are no exception. The beauty and charm of Bangladeshi women are decorated in poems, legends and short stories. But the suffering of Bangladeshi women hardly comes out in the literature. Bangladeshi women tolerate

The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately explain what actions they have taken to locate Shukho Ranjan Bali, a witness who defense lawyers and witnesses say was abducted from the gates of the war crimes courthouse in Dhaka on November 5, 2012, Human Rights Watch said 16 January. More

No country can realize the ideal of stable and prosperous polity without an efficient and independent judiciary. The role of judiciary in Bangladesh in up holding the Constitution and rule of law has not been impressive. Consequently there is not only frequent violation of the

An Egyptian court has accepted Hosni Mubarak`s appeal against his life sentence, ordering a retrial of the former president.Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to life in June for failing to prevent the killing of around 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 29-year