Video
ATN News report on the roundtable
ATN News television report on Cheaper Than a Man: আইনের ফাঁকে অপরাধে শিশুরা.
Roundtables
Hybrid conferences that bring courts, police, scholars and the communities a law touches into one conversation.
Roundtable conference one1 October 2026
Cheaper Than a Man
Child Recruitment, Adult Impunity and the Unintended Price of Protection in Dhaka
মূল্যহীন শৈশব-কৈশোর: শিশু নিয়োগ, প্রাপ্তবয়স্কের দায়মুক্তি এবং সুরক্ষার অনভিপ্রেত মূল্য
700+participants, in the hall and online
25countries represented
The day
- Date
- Thursday 1 October 2026
- Time
- 15:00 to 16:30, Bangladesh time
- Format
- In person, and online
- Venue
- Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka
The first international roundtable in the sociology of law held in Bangladesh.
Programme
Speakers in Dhaka, recorded messages from three continents, then questions from the hall and online.
- Setting the afternoonKM Rakibul Islam, Executive Director, ASCEND, and moderator
- Welcome addressProfessor Dr KM Zahidul Islam, Chairman, Board of Trustees, ASCEND
- Recorded messageProfessor Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University, United States
- Bangladesh: the assessmentMd Rezaul Karim Shohag, Chairman, Department of Criminology, University of Dhaka
- Recorded messageProfessor Camilo Umaña, Scientific Director, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati; Colombia
- IrelandDr Catherine Naughton, Ireland
- Recorded messageProfessor Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto, Canada
- QuestionsFrom the hall and from online participants
- Closing addressProfessor Dr Parvez Ahmed, Director, Law and Society, ASCEND
How does a state come to have a crime that everyone can see, and nobody prosecutes?
One of the questions put to the speakers
Joined from 25 countries
Guests in the hall and online came from countries including these.
BangladeshBrazilCanadaColombiaDenmarkIndiaIranIrelandNetherlandsNorwayPakistanPortugalSouth KoreaUnited KingdomUnited States
In the news
National television and newspaper coverage of the roundtable.
Video
Ekushey Television report on the roundtable
Ekushey Television (ETV) news report on Cheaper Than a Man: শিশুকে অপরাধে ব্যবহার, আড়ালে থেকে যাচ্ছে প্রাপ্তবয়স্করা.
‘কিশোর গ্যাং’-এর হোতাদের নাম প্রকাশ ও বিচারের দাবি
Report on the Cheaper Than a Man roundtable and the speakers' call to name and prosecute the adults who draw children into crime.
আইনের ফাঁকে অপরাধে শিশুরা
ATN News television report on the Cheaper Than a Man roundtable.
শিশুকে অপরাধে ব্যবহার, আড়ালে থেকে যাচ্ছে প্রাপ্তবয়স্করা
Ekushey Television news report on the Cheaper Than a Man roundtable.