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Welfare Of The Child Principle Under Indian Laws

Feb. 8, 2020 • Architi Batra

Child welfare refers to the well being of the child or in the best interests of the child in any situation. The courts must ensure a child's well being as part of their fundamental thought when settling on any choice about the child's custody in case of divorce or separation of the child's parents.

Survival Of Transgenders In India

Feb. 8, 2020 • Architi Batra

Transgenders are the people whose gender identity is different from our stereotypical gender norms. In recent times, LGBTQ have been recognized by various country and it includes India too. Also, various countries are making efforts to give equal rights to this community and merge them with mainstream society but that isn't where the problems end. But the need for putting in more efforts arises.

Ways to approach the Supreme Court

Feb. 8, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

Supreme Court, the apex court of India, performs certain legal functions such as interpretation of constitution, public interest litigation, etc. which further provide the powers, rules and responsibilities which in furtherance makes Supreme Court liable to the citizens of the nation.

Living Conditions Of Sex Workers In India

Feb. 8, 2020 • Architi Batra

There is a very strong need to treat the sex industry as any other industry and empowering it will legally safeguard the workers, which would help in getting rid of exploitative and unhealthy practices. What is required is a practical approach. Millions of women who enter into this trade do so to feed their families and empowering them will help them be free of the clutches of pimps and brothels owner. The rising number of AIDS cases in India and the number of innocents being forced into the flesh trade is alarming. The time has come for lawmakers to be more serious about this issue. Legalization is the key answer to these problems faced by prostitutes.

Sexual Harassment at workplace: From Vishakha Judgment To Today

Feb. 7, 2020 • Architi Batra

The Vishakha judgment (1997) is a landmark case that deals with sexual harassment at the workplace. In today’s challenging environment either socially or economically, women have increasingly become more independent and have entered the world where they are doing non-traditional tasks. There is definitely a need for new legislation that deals with Sexual Harassment at the Workplace after the previous Act which came into force in 2013 and deals with Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace. The problem of Sexual Harassment is not new and it has been continuing for past many decades. Gender inequality promotes such issues that put fear in the minds of the entire gender.

Davinder Singh Controversy: Explained

Feb. 7, 2020 • Architi Batra

The recent controversy revolving around DSP Davinder Singh and how he was caught with 2 other militants at the checking point of Jammu-Srinagar highway explained.

Ethical And Legal Challenges In Organ Transplantation

Feb. 7, 2020 • Architi Batra

The law in India regarding Human Organ transplantation ensures the interests and jams the lives of both the donor as well as the beneficiary patient. An issue emerges with regards to the relationship of others with one's body or parts thereof, particularly of one's dead body. The possessory privileges of the dead body, property rights in the human body will be discussed in the article. The moral or ethical issues engaged with self-sacrifice results into a number of logical inconsistencies. Organs transplantation comprises of damage in moral and legitimate terms if the planned utilization of an organ or tissue isn't lawfully and morally worthy.

Conflict of environmental laws with infrastructural development

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

Defenses under Law of Tort

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

This article is a further expansion of the previous article; Insanity, Infancy, Intoxication; as Defenses available to the Criminals. This article would be further dealing with the necessity, accident and question of fact as the defenses available to the criminals so that no innocent should be punished and the basic thing to be kept in mind is that there should be mens rea for every act done otherwise no such act is a crime.

Law may not practically be based on public opinion

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

Euthanasia- International Laws vis-à-vis National Laws

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

Euthanasia or mercy killing is very debatable issue these days, there is a lot of difference between the laws of various countries and each of them have their reasons for it. Also, passive euthanasia is mostly recognized by most of the countries. The various differences between the laws of different countries would be additionally discussed in the article.

Queer Studies and its development through time

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

The article tells about queer studies, specifies its history and explains the development in the field in India, also telling about the institutes dealing with the same in India.

103rd AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION

Feb. 6, 2020 • Madhav Gawri

This article talks about the 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act. Does the government has exceed the 50% quota of reservation ? Is this a reservation for the General Section of the society ? This article answers it all.

Indigenous People - their vulnerabilities and protection extended by law

Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta

Reforms in Direct Taxation Announced in Budget 2020

Feb. 5, 2020 • Madhav Gawri

International Law and Racism

Feb. 3, 2020 • Madhav Gawri

International human rights law seeks to eliminate racial discrimination in the world through treaties that bind and norms that transform. Yet law’s impact on eradicating racism has not matched its intent. Racism, in all of its forms, remains a massive cause of discrimination, indignity, and lack of equality for millions of people in the world today.