Category: Human Rights
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Cyber Crimes to be Penalised: An Overview of the Report by the Expert Committee
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. In 2005, the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which penalised the sending of offensive messages through computer resource or other communication services, thus leading to leniency with regard to laws governing penalisation for the delivering…
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Revisiting the Dilemma: Crime of Aggression and Humanitarian Interventions
By Ruchika Mohapatra, National Law University, Odisha. Firstly, to understand the concept of Crime of Aggression, it is important to understand the relevant international conventions and treaties as well as the customary international law, and finally the general principles that define acts of aggression. A general act of aggression, as discussed in the U.N. Charter and…
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Zero Hunger Programme: A Step to Remove Nutritional Deficiency in India
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Every day, men and women across the globe struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, one in nine – still goes to bed on an empty stomach each night. The second most populous country…
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Trafficking as Modern Slavery and the Youth of Today: A Socio-Legal Study
By Minakshi Goswami, Research Fellow, Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture, Assam. Human trafficking refers to a process wherein individuals are placed or maintained in an exploitative situation for monetary gain. Trafficking can occur within a country or may involve movement across borders. Anyone anytime may become a victim of trafficking. Whether women, men or children. The motive…
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Urban Refugee: Educational Needs of the Dispersed
By Binny Kumari, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya and Saif Rasul Khan, Research Associate, LexQuest. Meaning of the term urban refugee The Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as, “a person who is outside their country of citizenship because they have well founded fear of prosecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership of…
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Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2015: A Critical Scrutiny
By Medha Haradhan, WBNUJS, Kolkata. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Bill, 2015 was passed by the Rajya Sabha on 22nd December, 2015. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2015 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) seeks to replace the Act of 2000. The new Act has attracted a lot of criticism from various sources…
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Intolerance in India: An unending saga
By Anusmita Mazumder, Department of Law, University of Calcutta. We open the newspaper everyday to find several instances of social injustice and criminal offences. However, this sudden uprising of a “new social evil” in the guise of religious intolerance in the country has shaken its secular pillars.
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Accessible India Campaign: Building an Inclusive Society
By Shalvi Singh, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, formulated the Accessible India Campaign as a nation-wide campaign for achieving universal accessibility for People with Disabilities (PwDs). Consequently, the government on 3rd December 2015 (which is also celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities) launched…
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The raising dissent against Capital Punishment
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The changing global political dynamics has brought India and Germany closer. Recently, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany visited India along with her delegation. Progress was made on various fronts, however the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, could not culminate successfully even though the negotiations have been on since…
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Security of the State versus Right to Privacy
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The government of India recently came up with a draft of the National Encryption Policy which is also in place in many other countries. However, our draft has been compared to the drafts of some of the regressive countries of the Middle East because it appeared to…