Law and Human Rights

Legal Stories of Life is a compilation of Barrister Omar H. Khan’s write-ups mostly published in the Daily Star in the popular `Your Advocate’ column over the span of last one decade. The writes-ups consist of legal solutions to real-life problems of people from various backgrounds on diverse issues, which the author has termed as the `stories’. The objective behind publication of this book is to raise the legal awareness level amongst the people. The readers shall be able to find solutions to most of their day to day legal issues and concerns.

This ethnography seeks to understand the connections between livelihoods, risk, capital and migration by using a framework which considers not only economic implications but more importantly, the social and cultural underpinnings of the phenomena under study. Drawing on the lived experiences, ideas, beliefs and attitude of men and women from two migration-intensive villages in Comilla, Bangladesh, the study attempts to explore the causal links between lack of security in people’s lives and livelihoods and overseas labour migration. 

This book is both an academic treatise and a practical guide to day-to-day business of shareholders, stock brokers, investors, executives, accounting professionals, lawyers, teachers and students alike. It is compendium of the company and securities laws, rules, regulations, notifications and forms.

This book contributes to the ongoing discussions and discourses about processes of economic globalization and the so-called feminization of labor that accompany the economic and social transformations taking place world-wide. The focus is on the new modes of industrial production, notably in the export-oriented manufacturing sector in Bangladesh, where there is an increased participation of women in the workforce. The book intends to show how the Bangladeshi women workers view themselves and their actions within the given cultural, political and economic setting.