Month: December 2017

  • Rohingya Deportation Issue: Revamping the right to life?

    By Kaushiki Kar, South Calcutta Law College, Kolkata. Right to life is one of the basic human rights and not even the State has the authority to violate that right. Protection of life and personal liberty in India means: No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.…

  • Cohabitation as a Legal Controversy in India

    By Pratiksha Yadav, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Traditionally, in India, there existed only one kind of relationship between an unrelated male and female and that was “Marriage”. Marriage legally entitles both the persons involved, to co-habit; the children born out of a legal wedlock are legitimate; the wife is entitled to maintenance during the subsistence of marriage…

  • The Perils of Climate Change

    By Vignesh Ganesh, G.J. Advani Law College, Mumbai. With the world growing in economic prosperity by making rapid strides in various fields, there is no question that the human civilization has developed and prospered over the millennium.

  • Eradicate Child Labour and Aspire for a Better Future

    By Souromita Chatterjee, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. “Children should be making sand castles, not bricks.” Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on a part-time or full-time basis. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines the term child labour as, “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical…