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Gram Nyayalayas or Village Courts
Feb. 8, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
Article 39A of the Constitution of India provides that the State shall ensure that legal aid is not being denied to any citizen because of economic or other disabilities including in villages.
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.
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.
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.
Conflict of environmental laws with infrastructural development
Feb. 6, 2020 • Samiksha Gupta
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.
PROPERTY RIGHTS OF TRIBALS
Feb. 3, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
Detention Centers for Illegal Migrants
Feb. 2, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
PRISON ADMINISTRATION AND RIGHTS OF PRISONER IN INDIA
Jan. 31, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
Prison system in India has evolved into better model and prison administration has become better. Various committees were formed to enhance and further develop prison administration in the country. The Constitution of India also recognises numerous Prisoner’s Rights through implied as well as express provisions. Moreover, The Prisons Act, 1894 also contains the statutory provisions for prison administration.
An Introduction To Legal Services In India
Jan. 31, 2020 • Architi Batra
Ordinarily, Legal services mean ‘help or assistance or free service in the field of law.’ Previously the word legal aid was used in place of legal services but the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India; time-to-time asserted that legal aid is not a charity but a paramount duty for the welfare of the States and the Citizens residing hereby. Now, legal assistance from any state can be claimed as a matter of legal right, and therefore the term 'Legal Services' is used in the place of legal Aid.
National Nutrition Mission: An Analysis
Jan. 31, 2020 • Architi Batra
The National Nutrition Mission is a program started by the government of India to improve nutritional outcome for Children, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers. NITI Aayog has played a critical role in shaping the Poshan Abhiyaan.
The Need Of A Strict Population Control Law
Jan. 31, 2020 • Architi Batra
The world is currently facing an alarming population issue and if strict legal actions are not taken right this instant, it would lead to some serious harm for everyone.