Category: Human Rights
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Child Abduction: Is there a need for Reformation?
By Tanya Shrivastava, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. The past generation of India, our parents, to be more specific, have seen development like none has ever. During the short span of their childhood to becoming parents, a lot changed. The world suddenly had computers, mobile phones, television, which literally left no distance between the nations.…
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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis
By Afreen Hashmi, National Law University, Jodhpur. Rohingya are one of the world’s largest and most prominent groups of stateless people, trapped not only in a protracted refugee situation, but also in a protracted situation of statelessness. In 2015, to escape systemic violence and persecution from the Burma government, thousands of Rohingyas migrated from Burma and Bangladesh,…
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Quem retenemento-Reservation For Whom?
By Mohammad Anas, Aligarh Muslim University, Kerala. Reservation! A debatable topic that has always been and shall always be an issue of concern in our country. This number game is harming the society more than it is benefiting us. The idea of caste based reservation system was envisioned by William Hunter and Jyotirao Phule in various forms…
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Naxalite Problem in India
By Afreen Hashmi, National Law University, Jodhpur. The Naxalite armed movement based on Maoist ideology has challenged the Indian State for more than 40 years now. In 1967, unequal land distribution and forced labour led to the first uprising that could be described as Maoist, in Naxalbari village, in West Bengal (where – the word Naxalite now…
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Child Abuse: Silent cries of a Child
By Anjali Bisht, Law College Dehradun. As I was sipping coffee while going through the newspaper, a news caught my eye. My eyes remained stuck on the news as the subject has always baffled and filled my heart with disgust. The news was about an eight year old girl who was raped and brutally murdered…
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The Immorality of Child Labour
By Sonali Bhatnagar, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Everything has been said already; but as No one listens, we must always begin again. …
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Train Commute in Mumbai: Issues Galore
By Nayanika Tiwari, NMIMS School of Law. Local trains form the most essential part of travel for millions. However, the train commuters in Mumbai have to face a lot of problems on a daily basis. This study attempts to understand two of these problems along with cases in detail. Overcrowding: Currently the Mumbai Suburban Railway is suffering…
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Net Neutrality: An Analysis
By Sania Siddiqui, Amity Law School, Jaipur. What’s net neutrality? It is the principle that all traffic on the Internet must be treated equally by Internet service providers. Net Neutrality is a terrible, technical sounding phrase, and suffers for the lack of an easy definition. Until now, you and I could use the internet data we paid…
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Preventing Terror by Creating Terror
By Shreyan Acharya, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. India is known to be the largest democracy in the world. It has strongly cherished the principles of secularism in which various religions have been guaranteed their freedom. Today, there is rampant sectarian violence throughout the globe. India has been recently applauded by David Heyman for being able…
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Old Age Care: A Need of the Hour
By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute Of Law, Mohali. “The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”- Francis Bacon “Indian culture seems too distant and fragile to sustain old age. A sense of tragedy haunts the future.” One is forced to ask ‘what is the use of the ideas of India; of…