Tag: Human Rights
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UAPA Bill, 2019 : Towards a terror free country or a flawed path?
By Tanu Singh, Ramjas College, New Delhi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah put forward a Bill on 9 July 2019, proposing amendments in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967. On 24 July the Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha cleared the Bill with 147 voting in favour and 42 against.…
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Right to Disconnect: A Statutory Requirement?
By Shloka Suda, School of Law, UPES, Dehradun. During the last 25 years, there has been a drastic improvement in the modes of communication, every person carrying a cellular device is just a phone call away, letters are written via email, the transmission of messages takes place in seconds through means of the internet. In…
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Civic Architects: Bride Trafficking
A day full of insights, intense discussions and revelations for our participants and us, while we tried to make sense of the gender disparity, gender inequity and commodification of women’s minds and bodies in the society that contribute to the complex landscape of Bride Trafficking in India. Of learnings, solutions and thought provoking debates at…
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Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018: A Pressing Need of the Hour
By Shivangi Singh, Amity Law School, Lucknow. Trafficking of persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country…
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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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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…
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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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India’s Abstention at UNHRC: A shift without compassion
By Mohammad Anas, Aligarh Muslim University, Kerala. India’s so-called neutrality from voting in the recent UN Human Rights Council meeting on the question of forwarding the “Davis Report” to International Criminal Court has created an instant outrage among the National Councils and people all over the world. Various assumptions are being made as to why India did…
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Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?
By Saif Rasul Khan, Government Law College, Mumbai. Female genital cutting, female circumcision, and female genital mutilation are different terms used to describe the inhuman cultural practice of partially or totally removing the external female genetalia. The minor form of Female Genital Mutilation refers to the removal of the clitoris. The severe form of this practice is…
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A Study on the Agenda of Human Rights
By Jaskiran Kaur, Amity Law School, Delhi. The death penalty entails the taking away of a person’s life after conviction on a capital offence by a competent court. The death penalty is still a legitimate form of punishment in some parts of United States of America, Saudi Arabia, and China.[1] The International Covenant on Civil and…