Since the brutal military crackdown on the Rohingya ethnic group by the Myanmar army in August 2017 in the northwest Rakhine state, an influx of around 700,000 ethnic Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh causing multifaceted challenges for the country. Hence, marking the two years of that brutal clampdown, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organised a symposium on “Rohingya Influx in Bangladesh: Challenges Ahead” on August 29, 2019 at BILIA’s own Auditorium.

The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is emerging as a new region of trade, commerce, connectivity, and dispute as well. The littoral states of the BoB as well as other external actors are now engaging themselves within the region because of its growing geo-strategic importance. Thus, to discuss about several aspects of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA), the oldest civil society think tank has recently organised a day-long regional conference on “Maritime Issues in the Bay of Bengal Region”.

Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organized a conference on Article 35 of the Constitution (Protection in respect of trial and punishment) on 29 June 2019 at BILIA Auditorium. The Constitution of Bangladesh confers such protection as a right to an individual and such right to be exercised from pre-trial till post- trial stages.