List of Speakers South Asia Regional Conference Gender, Rights and Choices: Access to Justice in a Megacity Dhaka | 19-20 March 2018
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List of Speakers South Asia Regional Conference Gender, Rights and Choices: Access to Justice in a Megacity Dhaka | 19-20 March 2018 I. The Context of the City: Meeting Justice Needs and Gaps Dr. Md. Rahmat Ullah is the Dean of the Faculty of Law and a Professor in the Department of Law under the same Faculty. He is the Provost of Kabi Jashim Uddin Hall, University of Dhaka. He also holds the position of the Director of the ‘Quality Assurance Cell’ of the University of Dhaka. He is a member of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC). He is also member to many Governing bodies like the Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur; MH Somorita Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka; Alhaz Mockbul Hossain University College, Dhaka; and an Independent Director, Mercantile Bank Ltd. Dr. Md. Rahmat Ullah He completed LL.M from Baku State University, Azerbaijan and PhD from Kiev [email protected] State University, Ukraine. During his professional carrier he was a syndicate member to the University of Dhaka and worked as adjunct faculty member to several private universities. He participated in professional workshops, seminars and trainings in India, Nepal, China, Belgium, Netherland, Switzerland and Iran. His fields of interest is human rights and commercial laws. He is a prolific researcher in the field of human rights and legal issues. He worked as a national and international consultant under different projects on human rights and legal issues with UNHCR, UNDP, European Union, NHRC, HRDC, MJF and He has published more than twenty four research articles on human rights and legal issues and is an author of one book and co-author of four books. He is also Executive Editor of nine research books. He is a committed human rights activist and desires to work for the people for a just and better life. Sara Hossain is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a partner at the law firm of Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates. She currently serves pro bono as the Honorary Executive Director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. She is a board member of the UN Voluntary Fund on Victims of Torture, a Board Member of Dnet and was a founding board member of the South Asia Women’s Fund. She is also a member of ASK and of MLAA. Her relevant publications include editing Human Rights in Bangladesh for Ain o Salish Kendra; (with Iain Byrne) “Economic and Social Rights Case Law of Sara Hosaain Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan” in Malcolm Byrne (Ed.), Social Rights [email protected] Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law. Professor Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman is the current Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Boston College, USA). He joined University of Dhaka in 1990 as a lecturer in Department of Islamic History & Culture. Apart from being the Dean and Chairman, respectively of Faculty of Arts and Department of Islamic History & Culture and Department of Arabic at University of Dhaka, he has also been the General Secretary (2004, 2005 & 2006) and Vice President (2009, 2011) of the Dhaka University Teachers’ Association. Md. Akhtaruzzaman has forty-two research articles published in Professor Dr. Md. different journals. He is a recipient of The Justice Ibrahim Gold Medal for Akhtaruzzaman extraordinary research (2008). Ferdous Jahan is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Dhaka and is Academic Coordinator at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. Jahan teaches courses on development, management of land, governance, comparative public administration, financial administration, and political science. She is also an expert in program evaluation and policy research. She has designed and conducted a variety of qualitative studies as well as many quantitative surveys and research. Her current research involves governance, social protection, urban poverty, legal empowerment of the poor and women¹s empowerment issues in developing nations. She obtained her Dr. Ferdous Jahan PhD in political science in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. [email protected] Faria Ahmad is an Associate at Akhtar Imam & Associates and works regularly with the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST). She has worked with BLAST since 2015, mainly on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and the law, in particular issues of consent and choice. She is a member of the SARJAI network which dedicatedly works on SRHR. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2016 and completed her LLB Hons from University Faria Ahmad of London. [email protected] Marlon J. Manuel is a Senior Advisor of the Global Legal Empowerment Network NAMATI. Marlon has more than two decades of experience in legal empowerment work, having devoted practically his entire career to social justice and human rights lawyering. He has combined grassroots education activities with active involvement in strategic litigation on human rights and public interest issues, policy reform work on social justice legislation, and justice system reform programs on improving access to justice. From 2008-2017, Marlon was the Coordinator of the Alternative Law Groups , a coalition of twenty legal resource NGOs in the Philippines with distinct Marlon J. Manuel programs that are primarily concerned with the pursuit of public interest, [email protected] respect for human rights, and promotion of social justice. Before joining Namati, he served as member of the Global Legal Empowerment Network’s Guidance Committee. Marlon is a professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1994. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management (Major in Legal Management) from the College of Arts and Sciences of the same university. Dr. Kamal Hossain is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and founder Chairman of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and former President, Supreme Court Bar Association, and former Vice-Chairman of the Bangladesh Bar Council. He has served as Minister of Law, Energy and Foreign Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh. He has chaired several committees of the International Bar Association and the International Law Association. Dr. Kamal Hossain [email protected] HE Leoni Margaretha Cuelenaere is the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Bangladesh. She has earlier served as an ambassador in Sri Lanka, Yemen and Rwanda. H.E. Leoni Margaretha Cuelenaere [email protected] II: Gender and Access to Justice in the City Mohammed Nizamul Huq is a former judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and former presiding judge of the International Crimes Tribunal. Justice Nizamul Huq [email protected] Nurunnahar Nawreen is a change maker in Shokhi since at 2015. She completed her paralegal internship in 2017. She is working actively to stop early child marriage, and violence against women and helping others to get legal services easily. Nurun Nahar Nowrin Abeda Sultana is the Deputy Director of the National Legal Aid Services Organization (NLASO), a statutory body established by the Legal Aid Services Act, 2000 to implement the government legal aid program in Bangladesh. Ms Sultana has worked with NLASO to make the government legal aid system accessible and responsive to the poor and to develop an effective legal aid culture throughout the country, through policy reforms, providing an easy process for decision making, enhancing organizational capacity, ensuring speedy and quality services, and increasing access to legal aid for women, Abeda Sultana children, and ethnic and linguistic minorities through group mobilization, legal [email protected] literacy and legal empowerment. Farida Yasmin Farida Yasmin serves as the Deputy Commissioner in the Victim Support Centre [email protected] of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. With the partnership of 10 NGOs victim support centre, DMP is serving women and child victims by providing legal assistance, counseling support and rehabilitation facilities. Dr. Bilkis Begum Dr. Bilkis Begum is a Coordinator of One Stop Crisis Center run by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. Mohammad Ibrahim Mia started his career in development sector to promote and protect human rights for the poor people of the country and do something for their betterment. While managing development projects since 1996, he’s been acquainted with contemporary development practices and has been able to sharpen his expertise for achieving quality outputs and utilize Professional Crisis Management (PCM) techniques effectively to deliver projects according to the plan and budget. He has been working in Project Development & Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Training and skill development for more than 18 years in non-government organization. He has hands on experience in result based report writing, monitoring, planning, management and Mohammad Ibrahim Mia coordination of a number of projects funded by USAID, European Union, Royal [email protected] Norwegian Embassy, Royal Denmark Embassy, DFID Innovation Fund, and some international NGOs and in partnership with GoB and Non State Actors. He has done a number of research works especially on Study on Limitations of AC & VC Laws and Procedures and Procedural complicacy on family laws and dowry as research assistance. At present he is serving in Madaripur Legal Aid Association as Project Coordinator. Dr. Borhan Uddin Khan is a professor of the Department of Law, University of Dhaka. He is also the Advisor and Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB). Dr. Borhan Uddin Khan III. Access to Healthcare, Livelihood and Shelter Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid is the Dean of the James P Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University. She has been working since 1993 in national and international organizations including BRAC), Grameen Trust (a sister organization of Grameen Bank) and UNICEF Bangladesh. In addition to the overall leadership and management of the School, Dr.