Day: 27 February 2015
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WTO’s response to the Trade-Environment Nexus
By Aakanksha Mishra, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The World Trade Organization was fashioned by the international order to promote free trade: to remove barriers between countries, to allow them to concentrate on products with a comparative advantage, leading to maximum international productivity. This, however, often challenges rules protecting the environment. Even though the WTO has shown…
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Irom Sharmila and her struggle to repeal AFSPA
By Chandan Mohanty, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. On 2nd November 2000, in Malcom, a town in Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop, by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state. This incident became famous as the ‘Malcom Massacre’ which…