How laws risk unsafe abortions in India
The MTP Act, the PCPNDT Act, and the POSCO Act aimed at regulating abortions, female foeticide and sexual harassment lead to unsafe abortions in India.
Law
Discussion on Laws: state, national, and international are part of this sub-category.
Women’s Reservation System in Bangladesh: A Review of On Ground Policy
Political Representation is integral to bring structural changes in the way the society is governed. Opportunities to women in politics promotes gender equality and makes way for more just and equal society based on policies and practices that cater to the needs of underprivileged women.
Operating on constitutional lines
The literature at hand for the Constitution reads it as boundaries of the political community. These boundaries can be territorial (the geographical borders of a state, as well as its claims to any other territory or extraterritorial rights) and operating within the ambit of state.
Need for criminalizing marital rape in India
The marital rape exception has had an enormous impact on the lives of women. While the offence is committed by the husband, it is the wife that is looked down upon by the family and society if she confesses about marital rape.
Examining the Nature of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
In order to remove this deficiency in civil law and keeping in mind the rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India, the Parliament enacted the Domestic Violence Act to provide for a remedy.
Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility
As a generation affected and afflicted by a global pandemic, global warming has been wiped from public consciousness as a source of concern and corrective action but our ignorance in lieu of the pandemic should not be mistaken as a lapse in the grave issue of climate change. The temperature is rising, the snow is…
Reorganisation Act 2019: Future of asymmetric federalism in India
What we witnessed in 2019 was the rise of another constitutional jurisprudence and Kashmir was not the first or the last time it happened.
The curious case of the Election Commission
The Election Commission must always follow a certain conduct that ensures transparency and credibility of the institution.
Behaviour over Capital Punishment
Warden Duffy adds in the 187th Law Commission of India Report (2003) that the experience of execution for a prisoner is harrowing because there are times when his neck is not broken but strangles to death. The eye pops out of his head; tongue swells and protrudes from his mouth, neck prolly broken and the rope takes the large portion from his skin along with the flesh.
Embrace the Smart Legalisation of Cannabis
In 1961 the convention of UNCND categorised cannabis and its derivatives as schedule IV, driving criminalisation on a global scale.
Police encounters in cases of compelling evidences: Need for its legalization
In instances of clear and collaboratively compelling evidence, indicating that an individual is responsible for serious and heinous offences, immediate and appropriate action must be taken up by the Police.
The farm battle between the Centre and the State: A legal analysis
The farmers’ welfare and reforms are being used by politicians of either party for their petty vote bank politics. It’s high time we kept the interests of farmers, citizens and national economy at the forefront.
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