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The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's already robust protective measures, says Vikrant Rana.

The American House Judiciary Committee held a hearing over the issue of abortion access last week, even as the final decision of the Supreme Court in the matter is awaited.

The reform of prisons and rehabilitation has been treated from modern perspectives in Islamic law.

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington

A transgender individual challenged a government hiring process that restricted job applications based on binary gender classifications, arguing that an Advisory Committee's determination violated constitutional rights to equality, non-discrimination, and gender identity.

The Rohingya, an ethnic group once in Myanmar's Rakhine State, fled persecution to countries including Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan. In India, they face political, economic, and legal issues...

Developments involving Muslim populations in India echo the fate that has befallen other Islamic minorities in the region.

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of India in Victim ‘X' v. State of Bihar & Anr. exercised its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Constitution to cancel the bail granted...

Employing children (below 14 years) has been prohibited in all occupations and processes, with certain limited exceptions.

The Delhi High Court addressed a critical procedural gap affecting families seeking to relocate adopted children across international borders.

The phrase "access to justice" cannot be easily defined. It is a political, legal, and rhetorical symbol of undeniable power and attractiveness for the subjects of statecraft.

The Hon'ble Apex Court in Radhakrishnan Varenickal v. Union of India, in 2018, while delivering a verdict on a petition requesting ban on a book stated...

As per the WHO's 2012 data there are around 285 million visually impaired people around the world.

Palestine is a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This means that Hamas leaders and personnel can be held accountable for committing genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, ...

The aim of this essay is to provide an insight into how countries like United Kingdom and India have their extradition laws framed.

In the backdrop of growing human and environmental rights violations, the German legislature (and increasingly other countries) felt a need to shift from voluntary compliance to mandatory due diligence compliance.

The issue in question is whether delay in execution of death sentence can be a sufficient ground or reason for substituting such sentence by life imprisonment?