Sexual Harassment Against Women at Workplace

Sexual Harassment Against Women at the Workplace Mona Bhatt & Sounak Poddar Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Uttrakhand, India Volume-1, Issue-2, 2018 Sexual harassment at workplace is a manifestation of deep-rooted patriarchy prevailing in the larger...

Surrogacy in Women’s Life: An irony or renaissance?

Motherhood in women’s life is considered to be the fulfillment of her feminity. But in present days the impotency in women is cured through the process of surrogacy. The surrogacy is considered the gift in women life who are unable to bear child. The reality is that women are exploited in the name of surrogacy. This article mainly concentrates on the women rights and their exploitation through surrogacy and similar other issues relating to the rights of the child born out of surrogacy. This article also focuses on the suggestion of option to have adoption than to surrogacy. There are several children unparented who can be adopted which would reduce the risk of exploitation of women who are made to serve as surrogate mothers.

Is Judiciary Accountable For Its Actions?

Judges are not final because they are infallible. They are infallible because they are final.”
-Jackson, J.
As the quote makes it very clear, that the power of the judges is not supreme by virtue of it being “the judge’s power”, but by the virtue of many different factors that give the judges and the judiciary the power it has.
The topic of the essay, which is in the form of a question, is inclined to be answered in an affirmative, by any layman—or a layman law student, or maybe anyone who understands what the words judiciary and accountability mean. Importance of judiciary in the Indian democracy, without any supplied emphasis or exaggeration, is immense. This organ of paramount importance, if not accountable, would be something with only rights and powers and without duties and liabilities. Or will it?
This question at all arises in the absence of numerous mechanisms and implications of accountability, as against the Parliament (for instance) that has to guard itself against no confidence motions and other measures of financial accountability. The only procedure and implication for the judiciary is of impeachment.

Conflicts Between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights

The main aim here is to show connectivity between human rights and Intellectual property rights in national as well as international law arena. These two subjects’ i.e. human rights and intellectual property are two separate areas and their relation is likely to examine for several reasons. First reason is the effect of intellectual property rights on human rights which are right to health, etc. Second reason is about the importance of intellectual property rights due to which scope of human rights are clarified. So the main aim of this article is to examine provisions of already existing knowledge which are given in treaties of human rights. Further, this article also analyzes the effect of already existing intellectual property rights on the human rights and vice-versa.

Some Crimes: By-Product Of The Effects Of Climate Change

The increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures due to increase in green house gases resulting from pollution is global warming. Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and certain other gases causes the green house effect. They are aggravated due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and so on. Climate change is a serious problem worldwide and the IPCC (Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change) also made a statement that humans are mainly responsible. If such factors continue to operate climate change will result in severe problems and also in the death and extinction of humans. There has been a debate in recent times whether climate change has any relation to crimes. There appears to be a possible strong connection between climate change and crimes. This article discusses about how both climate and crime are interrelated and how they have increased. The need of the hour is to discuss why such crimes are taking place and the laws that govern such crimes.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986; Challenges & Achievements

The Research Paper deals with the challenges and achievements in the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 this act has many legal implications in itself because this Act has faced many challenges in his enactments although it is a achievements in terms of maintenance claim by Muslim Women. The paper has taken especial emphasis on Shah Bano Case and Daniel latifi Case because in two cases we have seen bigotry in the democratic mechanism of the country because in former judgment they held that maintenance under criminal procedure would be the precedent over the personal laws but in later case they recognized this act as just and reasonable for the maintenance of the Muslim women under which the women will entitled for maintenance only within Iddat period .
The paper has covered the Critical analysis of each and every Section of the Act and its legal implication as well It has its scope in the protection of Muslim Womenand the primary question which revolves in and around the Research work is whether the claim of maintenance be governed by this particular act or the provisions of the Criminal procedure. This paper has included Bigotry in a democracy and arbitrary rule of legislature. This paper contains recommendation for the improvement in the provisions of the act regarding “Divorced Muslim wife is not entitled to get maintenance beyond Iddat Period” and clarify the ambit of the maintenance by this act and the maintenance by the criminal procedure.