Month: February 2015
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Juvenile Delinquency: The Indian Scenario
By Kshitiz Sharma, Delhi Institute of Rural Development, GGSIPU, Delhi. More than a century ago, Abraham Lincoln said “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things you think are important. You may…
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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…
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Censorious assay to the Recommendations regarding United Nations, 2015
By Puja Kaushal, RMLNLU, Lucknow. The United Nation was founded in 1945 to save succeeding generations from the courage of war. But still too many people in this world and few places are beginning the year in grief, suffering and miserable conditions caused by conflict and deliberate violence. In short, human beings are far from…
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Human Trafficking: An Analysis
By Monika Dilip Banode, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The major focus of the article is the status and conditions of the victims of human trafficking and Legal framework for combating and preventing human trafficking. Human trafficking, as we all know, is one of the most serious crimes in the world. Despite increasing global attention and significant…
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Bendable Laws for the Elite?
By Darshi Mehta, Government Law College, Mumbai. Parole, the word has been doing rounds of the front page and even the page 3 of our newspapers these days, leaving the readers puzzled. Why Sanjay Dutt was granted parole this time? How can convicts like Manu Sharma be given parole? What is the filter process for conferring…
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Freedom of Speech: Curtailed yet again?
By Monika Dilip Banode, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory body under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952. Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they have been certified by the Central Board of…
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Struggle for Dignity: The Voice of Queer Peripheral
By Ankit Sharma, Siddhartha Law College, Dehradun. “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” –Ernest Gaines Should the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender collectively known as ‘THE LGBT’ community in India continue to remain in the shadow of criminality? The de-criminalisation of homosexuality…
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Google Books Case: An Analysis
By Tarunika Rajesh, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University. Copyright laws are a wide, all inclusive, dynamic and developing segment of the Intellectual Property Rights, which is under thorough scrutiny and examination for trying and striving hard towards creating a balance between the liberties and freedom of people involved in the capacity of a writer, publisher, artiste,…
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Setalvad Fund Embezzlement Case
By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. Liberty is more important than the stars in the sky. What is this case about? This is not a case of justice for victims of Gujarat Riots. This case relates to a plan of the two activists to raise money to convert the riot-affected housing colony in Ahmedabad into…