The news of successful vaccines, their development, distribution and success rate analyses have surrounded the world in their discussions. Vaccines, vaccination drives, the trade and issues of supply and demand are all approaching us very soon. In the anticipated scenario, we bring to you an understanding of the right to vaccinate as human rights, the right to not vaccinate as […]
Legal Aid & Support Centre Kirit P. Mehta School Of Law, Nmims University, Mumbai, India Comments On The Draft General Comment On Children’s Rights In Relation To The Digital Environment The Legal Aid & Support Centre (Legal Aid Committee) appreciates the Draft General Comment on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment. The Committee acknowledges the […]
Find our suggestions on the website of Committee on the Rights of the Child- https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/GCChildrensRightsRelationDigitalEnvironment.aspx ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH OUR SUGGESTIONS Paragraph 33– States should disseminate information and conduct awareness-raising campaigns on the rights of the child in the digital environment. States should facilitate educational programs for children, parents and caregivers, as well as the general public and policy makers, to enhance […]
INTRODUCTION About two days ago, the latest Annual Status Report (ASER) Wave 1 was released revealing an increase in enrollment of students in Government schools compared to the year 2018. The survey which aimed to find enrollment of students in state government schools by collecting data of nearly 60,000 students through phone surveys found that the enrollment of boys had […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown before us unforeseen circumstances. It has forced us to adapt to situations which would have been inconceivable before. Be it the restriction on travelling or attending social gatherings, there have been several lifestyle changes that everyone has had to make. The most interesting of these for students, however, is bound to be the paradigm shift […]
The Legal Aid and Support Centre of Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS University, Mumbai conducted a webinar on 13th October, 2020. About the Speaker: Ms. Thinklay Chukki is currently working at the Tibet Bureau Geneva and is a representative at the office of Dalai Lama. She is currently based in Geneva and participating in the Human Rights Council. […]
“Always the women, always the young girls. Rape after rape after rape. They cry, we cry, and yet, no one hears the screams.” In a very gruesome event that occurred on Sept. 14, 2020, at a small village in Uttar Pradesh named Hathras, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped and murdered brutally by four upper caste ‘Thakur’ men in broad […]
STATE AND CORRUPTION A government is established for bettering the standard of living of the people it governs and thus, it is rightly inferred that the with the prosperity of the people lies the security, strength and stability of the government and democracy.1 The government performs an administrative function and plays a key role in the socio-economic activities in the state. […]
Deep-rooted within the culture of India is the fierce egalitarianism that truly wants to come out, yet repetitive disruptive and negative behaviour of our people that stops this form of living to develop and flourish in our society. Women and children undeniably face multiple difficulties that are inherent in our social structure. Some of the complications can be curtailed by […]
LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. The “LGB” in this term alludes to sexual direction. Sexual direction is characterized as a regularly suffering example of enthusiastic, sentimental and additionally sexual attractions of men to ladies or ladies to men (hetero), of ladies to ladies or men to men (gay), or by men or ladies to both genders (androgynous). […]