Human rights or women's rights! Where human rights are abused,
women’s rights become a moon in the sky- Flaws in the Justice
System. Flaws in the Justice System. In Bangladesh women
litigants are deprived of justice for weaknesses in the legal
system. Most of the civil laws promulgated during the British
colonial regime; many of which treat women unequally,
consequently become victims of inequality in all aspects of
their live. In the last century women made advances in socio-
economic fields notwithstanding innumerable hindrances, but
cruelty to women has not been ceased, rather it seems to have
increased. Although there are laws, yet they fail to establish
the rights of women and assure justice to the litigant women.
Had the state law become women-friendly, it would have been
easier to ensure justice too. It is astounding that women become
victims in the state which espouses full freedom for women. In
spite of the abolition of the system of self immolation of Hindu
wife on her dead husband's pyre and child-m