Last Change:
05/09/2025
The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Year: 1972
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Asylum, Education, Freedom of movement, Health, Housing, land & property, Liberty & security of person, Nationality & facilitated naturalization, Social protection, Work & Workplace rights, Family life, Documentation
Description
The Preamble of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh establishes the guiding principles and aspirations of the country. It highlights the commitment to establish a just and egalitarian society based on freedom, human rights, social justice, and the rule of law. The Preamble emphasizes the importance of preserving democratic values, ensuring fundamental rights and freedoms for all citizens, promoting equality, and fostering national unity and solidarity. Additionally, in Part I, the Constitution discusses the fundamental rights of citizens, including equality before the law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, and protection against discrimination.
Selected provisions
(1) The right to move the High Court Division in accordance with clause (1) of article 102, for the enforcement of the rights conferred by this Part is guaranteed.
(2) Without prejudice to the powers of the High Court Division under article 102, Parliament may by law empower any other court, within the local limits of its jurisdiction, to exercise all or any of those powers.
Subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the public interest, every citizen shall have the right to move freely throughout Bangladesh, to reside and settle in any place therein and to leave and re-enter Bangladesh.
(1) Subject to law, public order and morality –
(a) every citizen has the right to profess, practise or propagate any religion;
(b) every religious community or denomination has the right to establish, maintain and manage its religious institutions.
(2) No person attending any educational institution shall be required to receive religious instruction, or to take part in or to attend any religious ceremony or worship, if that instruction, ceremony or worship relates to a religion other than his own.
The State shall adopt measures to conserve the cultural traditions and heritage of the people, and so to foster and improve the national language, literature and the arts that all sections of the people are afforded the opportunity to contribute towards and to participate in the enrichment of the national culture.