India, Nepal, Bangladesh and other SAARC countries have developed and implemented a number of legislations to prohibit human trafficking and to penalize the traffickers. INDIA: The Government of India penalizes trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation through the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956 with prescribed penalty of seven years to life…
“Civil rights” are the rights of individuals to receive equal treatment (and to be free from unfair treatment or “discrimination”) in a number of settings including education, employment, housing and many more which is based on certain legally protected characteristics. Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals’ freedom from infringement by governments, social…
“There is no good terror and bad terror. There’s not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror“. –Ariel Sharon The response to terrorism ought to be based on a holistic and inter-related understanding of human security, rights, and development. It should always be…
” Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Health is considered as the biggest wealth of a human being. Heath care is now well recognized as a Fundamental Right under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. It includes within its ambit the…
International Committee is the guardian of humanitarian law and is also known as the Law of Arms or Law of Armed Conflicts. ICRC is considered to be a part of the global landscape that’s why we the people are very much related to it. ICRC lays that it is not…
