Category: Human Rights
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Sedition: Critical Interpretation
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. KENNY- the Law of Sedition relates to the uttering of the seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday 22nd September, directed the State not to implement its circular issued by the Home Department…
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Domestic Surveillance and Right to Privacy
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Domestic Surveillance is the close observation of someone, often in order to catch them in wrongdoings. As defined by the government authorities, it is, “information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and been collected, processed and narrowed to meet those ends which hold value to protect…
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To Die or Not to Die, is the Question
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. Right to Life is a right of wide import. This right has always been a bone of contention because defining its limits and the ingredients of this particular right depends on the interpretation and understanding of life of the person who is analyzing it.
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Would India be justified in doing away with the Death Penalty?-Decoding the 262nd Law Commission Report
By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. India is one of the 59 countries in the world that still retain death penalty even after the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 62/149 on 18-12-2007. 262nd Law Commission Report is the outcome of references made by the Supreme Court in death penalty matters to discuss and re-examine its…
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Child Rights in India: The Ground Reality
By Gautam Adusumalli, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. Did you know that children constitute over a third of India’s 1.2 billion population, and that India has the largest population of children in the world? In fact, over 17% of the world’s children live in India, which means that every sixth child in the world today refers…
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Where is the Honour in Honour Killings?
By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. Since time immemorial, the two most influential institutions of the Indian society, namely, traditions and customs, and law have been at loggerheads with each other. Several of the traditionally deep-rooted Indian customs have come under the scrutiny of human rights law and constitutional law, be it sati or the caste…
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Moral Policing in India
By Priyanka Agarwal, Chaudhary Charan Singh University. Moral police is a term which some vigilante group and police use to cover their actions which they perform in order to protect the deemed morality and Indian culture. The moral policing instead of becoming a good thing has become more like a trend which some vigilant groups and the…
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Euthanasia: A Right to Die with Dignity
By Priyanka Agrawal, Chaudhary Charan Singh University. The phenomenal advances in medical sciences and technology have altered balance of human life and societal values. Pari-passu with these changes is the upsurge of affirmation of human rights, autonomy, and freedom of choice. These issues compel us to re-evaluate our concepts of societal, medical ethics and value systems.
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Internet Neutrality: Can India adopt it?
By Saurav Das, School of Law, Christ University. We must thank the telecom providers where it’s due. India has developed and on the tip of its boom due to its economy, people, education above all a good communication. Use of internet has always been a priority and this priority is greatly fulfilled by the telecom providers who…
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Analysing Death Penalty like never before: Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State Of Maharashtra
By Sudipta Purkayastha, Gujarat National Law University. An eleven year old girl goes missing in the middle of the day. Forty eight hours later, the strangulated body of the hapless, mentally and physically handicapped child is found in a field. She is found to have been brutally raped. What happened? In July 2006, the young girl, staying…