Status of Crime Victims in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 251660692110572
Author(s):  
Mohammad Omar Faruk ◽  
Sanjeev P. Sahni ◽  
Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff
Keyword(s):  
Crime Victims ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Women And Children

Though a few provisions for the victim of crimes were indirectly recognized since the nineteenth century, from 2000 onwards, legal entitlements for crime victims are realized in Bangladesh with a specific focus on women and children. So far, few analyses are found to be performed mainly by the legal experts, emphasizing legal rights and remedies with recommendations for legal reform. However, studies on the status of victims’ rights seem to be incomplete without considering administrative as well as social reality—dominated by colonial legacy and traditional practices—beyond the written clauses in the law books. This study is one of the pioneering attempts in Bangladesh to understand the status of crime victims against the backdrop of recent legal changes and to examine the argument whether the legal provisions itself are enough in providing victims with intended benefits without simultaneous social and administrative changes. Within the theoretical framework of balancing victim’s rights and informal social control (victim blaming), this qualitative study (through content analysis) reviewed all criminal laws and research findings related to victim’s rights within a socio-legal approach in terms of victim’s access, participation, protection, services and compensation. Along with the rights legally granted to victims, available research findings were interpreted in connection to those particular rights. It is found that there are unsupportive social milieu, administrative subculture and political practices, where victims of crime are strongly restrained from enjoying their rights. Particularly, the status of crime victims is found to be undermined in the face of corruption, low public confidence on enforcing agencies, gross withdrawal or discharge of criminal cases on political grounds, limited geographical coverage of victim support services and shelter homes, lengthy process for compensation and unavailability of rules or guidelines to enforce the rights.

Electronic Highways in Southeast Asia

2011 ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
Loong Wong
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Crony Capitalism ◽  
Information And Communication

New information and communication technologies (ICTs), it is argued is transformative, and governments all over the world have sought to incorporate it into their development desideratum. It is clear that ICTs have transformed social, economic, and political practices and this certainly is true for Southeast Asia. In the context of Southeast Asia, it is particularly salient for it provided avenues for new political movements and expressions in the face of predominantly authoritarian regimes. Via the new ICTs, people were able to communicate freely and oppositional forces could be readily mobilized. This assertion of political rights threatened the status quo and the ruling political elites’ hold on power. This was compounded by a crisis in public confidence as Southeast Asian economies found themselves caught in the maelstrom of a financial crisis precipitated by the loss of investment confidence and crony capitalism. As the crisis intensified and spread, its political fallout became clear. Governments have to accommodate and make way for social, economic, and political changes. In this chapter, the author seeks to examine

24. Citizenship of the European Union

EU Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 921-962
Author(s):  
Paul Craig ◽  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
European Court Of Justice ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter reviews EU citizenship law. It considers the rights of free movement and residence of EU citizens, political rights of citizenship, and Directive 2004/38 on the rights of free movement and residence for EU citizens and their families. The status of EU citizenship created by EU law has been criticized on various grounds, including the thinness of the rights created and their economic focus, the conditions to which they are subject, the reinforcement of the distinction between third-country nationals and EU nationals, the limited impact of the new electoral rights, and the reluctant pace of implementation. On the other hand, the legal rights of citizenship have been expanded by the European Court of Justice, even in the face of vocal Member State opposition. The case law in this area continues to develop and the chapter provides a considered evaluation of this difficult body of law. The UK version contains a further section analysing issues concerning EU conceptions of citizenship and the UK post-Brexit.

24. Citizenship of the European Union

EU Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 889-928
Author(s):  
Paul Craig ◽  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
European Court Of Justice ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter reviews EU citizenship law. It considers the rights of free movement and residence of EU citizens, political rights of citizenship, and Directive 2004/38 on the rights of free movement and residence for EU citizens and their families. The status of EU citizenship created by EU law has been criticized on various grounds, including the thinness of the rights created and their economic focus, the conditions to which they are subject, the reinforcement of the distinction between third-country nationals and EU nationals, the limited impact of the new electoral rights, and the reluctant pace of implementation. On the other hand, the legal rights of citizenship have been expanded by the European Court of Justice, even in the face of vocal Member State opposition. The case law in this area continues to develop and the chapter provides a considered evaluation of this difficult body of law. The UK version contains a further section analysing issues concerning EU conceptions of citizenship and the UK post-Brexit.

Domestic violence act “shield or weapon of an Indian women”: Two sides of a coin

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritu Singh ◽  
Kusha Pant ◽  
Amit K. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Domestic Setting ◽  
Children Welfare

Domestic violence refers to violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation. In India, one out of every fourth Indian women is a victim of domestic violence at some point of her life or the other. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (2005) has been passed under Indian Constitution which ensures protection of women against violence of any kind occurring within the family and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. On the face of it, the law appears to be a “shield” or blessing for Indian women who are into abusive or violent relationships. However, another disturbing fact is that at times, women themselves have played an unpleasant and catalytic role in perpetrating violence against another woman like daughter-in-law, mother-in-law or female domestic helps. Second issue is that if it's male dominated society in some parts of India it's also female dominated in few other parts of it. Thirdly, nowadays, males and females both are equally involved in different crimes in the country like theft, murder, abduction etc. In light of all these facts, it can be said that if in most instances domestic violence is perpetrated by man in some instances it can be vice versa too. Instances exist whereby protective legal provisions for the benefit of women have been subjected to distortion and misuse and women have used PWDVA as “weapon” to wreak petty revenge and to settle scores. Deep scrutiny of PWDVA projects that “it” in an attempt towards “women and children welfare”, has granted Indian women an unconditional legal supremacy over men and created a society where men are deprived of their rights of “welfare”. The bottom-line therefore, is the fair incantation of legal provisions and their objective and honest implementation. The responsibility of this lies on the shoulders of we educated and elite group of the society.

23. Citizenship of the European Union

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Craig ◽  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Academic Debate

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter reviews EU citizenship law. It considers the rights of free movement and residence of EU citizens, political rights of citizenship, and Directive 2004/38 on the rights of free movement and residence for EU citizens and their families. The status of EU citizenship created by EU law has been criticized on various grounds, including the thinness of the rights created and their economic focus, the conditions to which they are subject, the reinforcement of the distinction between third-country nationals and EU nationals, the limited impact of the new electoral rights, and the reluctant pace of implementation. On the other hand, the legal rights of citizenship have been expanded by the European Court of Justice, even in the face of vocal Member State opposition. The case law in this area continues to develop and the chapter provides a considered evaluation of this difficult body of law.

Achieving Effective Law and Policy Frameworks for Access to Sustainable Energy in Africa— A Multidimensional Effort

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinka Omorogbe ◽  
Ada Okoye Ordor
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Energy Justice ◽  
Electricity Access

This chapter highlights some common themes which the editors see as significant research findings. The ubiquitous nature of energy is at once the most obvious and yet the most surprising realization. Not only are there clear linkages with water and renewable energy, but also with areas such as intellectual property and arbitration and, no doubt, the law in these areas can enhance or impede access. Access to energy so far falls short of the status of a realizable human right and this amounts to a denial of energy justice for affected persons. The lack of modern energy erodes and in some instances amounts to a denial of the rights of women, children, and the vulnerable. Electricity access has suffered, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa because of a combination of factors, chiefly the absence of legal provisions or failure to either reform or comply with legal provisions.

scholarly journals The Gendered Space of the “Oriental Vatican”—Zi-ka-wei, the French Jesuits and the Evolution of Papal Diplomacy

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Wei Mo
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
World History ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Gendered Space ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Italian Unification ◽  
The Church

In a global context, the story of the Jesuit compound in Shanghai, since its establishment by French Jesuits in 1847, reflected not only conflicts between rival powers in Europe but also the fight for their interests in the Eastern world. The female Catholic orders at the east bank of Zi-ka-wei compound provided a unique window approaching the complexity. The Pope, who was stuck without legal status in the Vatican after 1861, was also seeking the chance to save the authority of the Church in the face of questions regarding the extent of his temporal power and the status of Rome in the context of Italian unification. As in the Reformation, a break-through in the east seemed to offer a solution for losses in Europe. However, the Jesuits to the East in the late 19th century were not only troops working and fighting on behalf of the Pope; their identities under the French Protectorate added complexity to an already complicated story involving not just the Church, but the course of world history. Locating the Jesuit-affiliated women and children hospice in the French Concession but outside the Zi-ka-wei compound was a result of how different conflicts played themselves out.

scholarly journals THe Question on Excitation of Criminal Cases Against Judges

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
N V Romanenko
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Case ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Major Adjustment ◽  
Method Analysis

The subject of research are the legal provisions governing the institution of criminal proceedings against a judge or bringing him in as a defendant, as well as their practical implementation. In the study we used systematic methods of analysis, generalization of legislation, research papers, statistical, sampling method. Analysis of the practice revealed a number of problems in the application of complicated procedure brought against a judge of the criminal case (bringing him in as a defendant), in which the excitation of proce- dure of the criminal case against a judge needs a major adjustment in the way of closer relationship guarding the status of a judge of the constitutional norms and the criminal procedural rules guaranteeing protection of the rights of victims of crimes committed by them.

Can an Adulteress Save Jesus? the Pericope Adulterae, Feminist Interpretation, and the Limits of Narrative Agency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Knust
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Narrative Agency ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) is often interpreted as an inherently feminist story, one that validates women’s humanity in the face of a patriarchal order determined to reduce sexual sinners and women more generally to the status of object. Reading this story within a framework of queer narratology, however, leads to a different point of view, one that challenges the consequences of seeking rescue from a god and a text that are both quite willing to forge male homosocial bonds at a woman’s expense. As the history of this story also shows, texts and their meanings remain unsettled and therefore open to further unpredictable and contingent elaboration. Pondering my own feminist commitments, I attempt to imagine a world and a story where a woman is a person and Jesus is in need of rescue. Perhaps such a world is possible. Or perhaps it is not.

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