Category: Human Rights

  • Human Trafficking: An Analysis

    By Monika Dilip Banode, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The major focus of the article is the status and conditions of the victims of human trafficking and Legal framework for combating and preventing human trafficking. Human trafficking, as we all know, is one of the most serious crimes in the world. Despite increasing global attention and significant…

  • Child Trafficking in India: A lucrative conglomerate of illegal activities

    By Puja Kaushal, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” In general sense, if a child is sexually exploited and any person gains out of…

  • Human Trade: A Loathsome Business

    By Prerana Tara, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. No less than 20.9 million children and adults are purchased and sold worldwide into business sexual servitude, constrained work and bonded work. Around 2 million kids are abused consistently in the worldwide business sex exchange. Just about 6 in 10 recognized trafficking survivors were trafficked for sexual…

  • Child Custody: The best interest dilemma

    by Devita Shah from K.L.E Society Law College, Bangalore. “Anyone can have a child and call themselves ‘a parent’. But a real parent is someone who keeps aside their selfish need and puts the child above all.” One of the most crucial issues that surface due to the dissolution of marriage is the matter of…

  • Nido Tania Death Case: An Analysis

    By Neelanjana Paul, KLE Society’s Law College, Bangalore. The post-colonial Indian nation comprises of vast geographic, linguistic, ethnic, religious and racial expanse; even after over six decades of Independence, India remains overwhelmingly Gangetic valley centric. The notion of India and Indians in Delhi continues to be heavily coloured by the ethnic and racial profiles and prejudices of the…

  • POCSO Act: An Analysis

    By Anjali Rawat, RMLNLU, Lucknow. 53% of the children in India had been sexually abused as per the 2007 survey by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. In the light of such circumstances Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act, 2012 also known as POCSO Act was passed by both the houses of Parliament…

  • Being Tough on Terrorism or Respecting Human Rights Laws

    By Sneha Baul, CLC, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. INTRODUCTION: Human Rights are the inherent rights, which are basic, fundamental and pervasive in nature. With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 and a series of other multilateral treaties and other declarations concluded through the United Nations, the human rights had been recognized universally beyond the peripheries…

  • Racial Crimes in India: An Analysis of Law

    By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. Our Constitution provides for equality before law and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, and place of birth or any of them. Though these provisions are part of Fundamental Rights, it is said reality that a section of citizens have to face systematic…

  • Child Beggary in India

    By Trishala Sanyal, AKK New Law Academy. Introduction Arpita Khan’s wedding was very much in news as she is the adopted sister of the famous Bollywood Thespian, Salman Khan. Little did people know about her being the biological daughter of a homeless beggar woman. She is just one of the lucky children among those thousands…

  • National Laws on Free Speech and the Internet

    By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” — John Milton But stop and think a while is it all to give full freedom of speech and expression to a person or citizen. Is it correct…