Category: Human Rights
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Honour Killing: Honourable or a licence to kill?
By Sagarika Chandel, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. November 15th 2014, a final year student from a reputed college of Delhi University strangulated to death by her parents for marrying a youth of a different caste. November 29th 2014, an eight months pregnant teenager strangulated to death by her brothers and thrown into a canal in…
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Child Labour in India
“When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry “Weep! Weep! Weep! Weep!”, so your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.”[1] …
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Should Juvenile Justice Law be changed?
By Madhvi Chopra, VIPS, GGSIPU, New Delhi. A “juvenile” means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age. A boy or girl under eighteen years of age is a “juvenile” according to the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), 2000. Earlier, according to the JJA, 1986, the age of boys and girls were different, but…
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Decriminalisation of Suicide
By Riya Singh, New Law College, BVP, Pune. Suicide has been declared as a crime in many countries. Most of the western countries have already decriminalised individual suicides, calling it a defiant act. Hence, it is discouraged in every possible way. In countries like Rome and Japan it was seen as a kind of defiant…