Library
The Library comprises a collection of PDF documents and other links to reading materials about the criminal justice system and related issues in Bangladesh. These are offered as further background information for users of the Justice Audit Bangladesh website.
Click on any of the folders listed on the left side of the page to see a list of the PDFs and website links contained in each. Click on any of the PDFs or website links on the right side of the page to open in a new tab in your browser.
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- Formulation Mission on Penal Reform in Bangladesh, PRI and UNDP, May 2004
- “Locked up and Forgotten?” A Conference on Penal Reform in Developing Countries, GTZ, October 2010
- Prison Directorate: Strategic Planning Process Data Collection and Analysis, GTZ
- Recommendations of Bangladesh Jail Reform Commission, Chairman Mr. Justice F.K.M.A. Munim, 1980
- The Improvement of the Real Situation of Overcrowding in Prisons in Bangladesh: A report to map the issues facing the Bangladesh Prison Service, GIZ, November 2009
- World Prison Brief, 2014, International Centre for Prison Studies
- Backlog of Cases, The Daily Star, March 18, 2013
- Legal Research on Compounding, Bail, Plea Bargaining/guilty plea and Scope for Sentencing, GIZ, 2013
- Recommendations for Expediting Civil Proceedings, The Law Commission, The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, December 2010
- The disposable prosecutors of Bangladesh, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, 2008
- The Judiciary Policy Note, Institute of Governance Studies, BRAC University, May 2010
- The Shifting Role of Judiciary in Bangladesh: Re-Defining and Re-shaping the Checks and Balances of a Transitional Democracy, Ferdous Jahan and Asif M. Shahan
- Political Economy of Land Litigation in Bangladesh: A Case of Colossal National Wastage, Abul Barkat, 2004 (available for purchase)
- Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women, WHO, 2005
- Building Gender-Responsive Community-Based Policing in Bangladesh, DFID and GIZ, 2006
- Compromising Cases: An Examination of Dispute Resolution through Special Tribunals for Women and Children in Bangladesh, Heather Goldsmith, 2012
- Country Policies and Strategies for Combating GBV: Bangladesh, WHO
- Developing gender-responsive community policing in Bangladesh, Maggy Lee and Syed Jahangeer Haider
- UN Special Rapporteur Report on Violence against women, its causes and consequences finalizes country mission to Bangladesh, UHCHR, May 2013
- Will I Get My Dues…..Before I Die, Human Rights Watch, September 2012
- Bangladesh Country Report, BTI, 2012
- Daily Lives and Corruption: Public Opinion in South Asia, Transparency International, 2011
- Governance Barometer Survey Bangladesh, Institute of Governance Studies, BRAC University, 2010
- World Bank Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption, IEG, 2011
- Politics – Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh. An empirical study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance, Md Shariful Islam, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Feb 2010 (available for purchase)
- Annual Report, National Human Rights Commission, 2012
- Bangladesh 2012 Human Rights Report, United States Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
- Bangladesh Human Security Assessment, Mushtaq H. Khan, 2005
- Corruption in Service Sectors: National Household Survey 2012, Transparency International Bangladesh
- Half Yearly Human Rights Report on Bangladesh, Odhikar, July 2008
- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance, National Human Rights Commission, March 2013
- Perceptions, Attitudes, and Understanding: A baseline survey on human rights in Bangladesh, National Human Rights Commission, December 2011
- The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance, National Human Rights Commission, March 2013
- Universal Periodic Review 2013 reports
- Activating the Justice System in Bangladesh, European Commission, November 2005
- Analysis of Decisions of the Higher Judiciary on Arrest and Detention in Bangladesh, National Human Rights Commission, January 2013
- Criminal justice through the prism of capital punishment and the fight against terrorism, International Federation for Human Rights and Odhikar, October 2010
- Disputes, Crimes and Pathways of Redress: A Household Survey on Citizens’ Perceptions and Experiences of the Justice System in Bangladesh, February 2011
- From Rule of law to Legal Empowerment for the Poor in Bangladesh, Ferdous Jahan
- International Statistics on Crime and Justice, Harrendorf et al, HEUNI/UNODC, 2010
- Joint Assessment of Prospects for Harmonisation within the Justice Sector in Bangladesh, CIDA, DFID-WB Trust Fund, DANIDA, and GTZ, June 2007
- Promoting Improved Access to Justice, Community Legal Services Delivery in Bangladesh, The Asia Foundation, March 2007
- The Fear Never Leaves Me: Custodial Deaths, Torture, and Unfair Trials after the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles Mutiny, 2012
- What does the World Spend on Criminal Justice? HEUNI, 2004
- An Assessment Study for Children at Risk of Coming In Contact With Criminal Activities, Bangladesh Police, Ministry of Home Affairs, May 2008
- Juvenile Justice System in Bangladesh: A Critical Appraisal, Mohammad Balbul Ahmen and Camellia Khan, January – June 2010
- Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Bangladesh Perspective, Mohammad Balbul Ahmed and Md. Raisul Islam, September-October, 2010
- Trends and Factors of Juvenile Delinquency in Bangladesh: Some Observations, Nahid Ferdousi, 2011
- Under-Aged Prison Inmates in Bangladesh: A Sample Situation of Youthful Offenders in Greater Dhaka, Actionaid and Retired Police Officers Welfare Association Bangladesh, November 2008
- Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh, Mid- Term Review, Jahan and Stapleton, March 2013
- Dispensing Justice Locally: A Study of Two Village Courts in Bangladesh, Shekh Mohammad Balayet Hossain, 2012
- Framing Local Conflict and Justice in Bangladesh, World Bank, August 2011
- The Role of Union Parishad in Rural Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh: an Evaluation in the Light of People’s Perception, Bashir Ahmed and Mohammad Tarikul Islam, March 2013
- Understanding ADR for the rural women in Bangladesh, BRAC, 2013
- Blood on the Streets: The Use of Excessive Force during Bangladesh Protests, Human Rights Watch, 2013
- Crossfire: Continued Human Rights Abuses by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion, Human Rights Watch, 2011
- From Training Need to Learning Approach: A Training Strategy for the Bangladesh Police, UNDP, 2007
- Getting Police Reform on Track, International Crisis Group, December 2009
- Motivational Status of Subordinate Police Officers (SPOs): A Study of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Md. Faruk Hossain, 2011
- Public Attitude Follow-up Survey, Police Reform Programme, 2009