Labour issues are very common in our society as people in power always dominate the labour class.  International law recognises the rights of workers and have formulated rules and regulations so labourers can carry out their tasks in safe and humane conditions. The majority of labourers in Bangladesh do not know their rights and it is to the advantage of ...

"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health, and wellbeing of himself and his family...".(Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948).World Health Orgnaisation (WHO) declares that it is one of the fundamental rights of every human being to enjoy "the highest attainable standard of health". Inherent in the right to health is ...

“No one can help me, and I don’t have any other way to live except through begging. I live on the street and everyday earn Taka 30 to 40 and I am taking drugs as I am frustrated by life.” -Zahid, a street beggar and drug user A lame man walks the streets at night. He is Zahid, who has lost the ...

Dear Mother Take my Salam. Hope you are all fine by god’s grace. I am not well. I don’t know whether I will get mercy from you ever….I don’t know when I will be able see you all…..I am in a difficult situation, a situation that cannot be explained in words. Please forgive me mother. Your beloved daughter Poly   The letter was written by ...

On 7th January 2011, Felani, a Bengali girl aged fifteen years became one of the victims of impunity of the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF)at the India-Bangladesh International Border No. 947 in Anatrapur, Kurigram. Felani was pinnedon to the barbed wire fence for hours, butchered afterwards and handed to the Bangladesh side of the border after thirty hours. She was ...