Category: Human Rights
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Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018: A Sturdy Action Plan against Child Abusers?
By Shivangi Singh, Amity Law School, Lucknow. On March 12, the Rajasthan Assembly unanimously passed a Bill conferring capital punishment on those found guilty of sexually abusing children aged 12 or below. Rajasthan standing fourth in the crimes against women categories, sort this bill to be the need of the hour. The Bill, according such…
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Prison Reforms: Constant Deliberations Short of Actions
By Devansh Saraswat, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. “Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.” –Elizabeth Fry John Locke believed that men are fundamentally good but laws are still required to keep down ‘the few desperate men in society’ and thus arises the need for prisons. A prison is…
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Contradiction of Reservations under the Indian Constitution
By Jhalak Nandwani, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. Indian Constitution gives us the right of equality, and the freedom to exercise this right. However, in today’s time, one of the major hindrances to this equality is the Reservation System. This reservation system was worked on, at the time of the drafting of our Constitution, and…
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Nagaland under AFSPA Shelter: An Ongoing Saga
By Kartik Pathania, Amity Law School, Delhi. Disturbed area is an area where any magistrate or police officer of the rank of Sub-Inspector or Head Constable of Armed Police have been given the right to fire or otherwise use force even to the point of causing death, against any person who is indulging in any…
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Decoding the Petya Ransomware Attack
By Sunidhi Singh, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” –Christian Lous Lange Computers were invented to help human beings perform tough and time consuming tasks accurately, within seconds and the internet was developed as a research and information sharing tool. However, our present situation is a total reverse.…
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The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016: An Analysis
By Prateeksha Shrivastava, Faculty of Law, Lucknow University, Uttar Pradesh. Human trafficking is the trade of humans. Trade of humans is done to serve various purposes like forced labour, sexual slavery or for commercial social exploitation. Human trafficking is also done for forced labour, slavery, extraction of organs or even for forced marriages. It can be done…
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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…
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To Live or Not: But is the Choice Really Ours?
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. There’s a story of a democratic country I would like to narrate today. India. The Indian Constitution guarantees every individual the Right to Life. THE END.
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Supreme Court rules on protecting Minor Wives
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment, affirmed that sexual intercourse with a minor wife is rape, where consent is immaterial. The judgment came on a petition filed by an NGO- Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) run by Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi to examine the…