The Response of Latin America to the Venezuelan Emigration and the Applicability of “The International Convention on the Protection of The Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families”

Unlike other refugee problems, the Venezuelan crisis is not the product of everyday military conflict. However,  the hardships Venezuelans experience every day are not any different from those experienced in an ongoing war zone. Since 2013 the economy of Venezuela has shrunk by 65 per cent, the biggest recession from outside of the war in 45 years. The only near comparisons are countries experiencing armed warfare, such as Liberia, where 90 per cent of the country's GDP was decimated during its brutal civil war.

ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON MERGERS AND ACQUISITION

This course will focus on providing extensive knowledge to the students about the Company Law along with corporate restructuring and along with SEBI regulations of the M&A.

WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR – 12 JUNE

This year, a Week of Action will be launched from 10-17 June, starting with the release of the global estimates and trends on child labour (2016-2020), partnering with Alliance 8.7. The report will include an assessment of “how the pace of progress towards ending child labour is likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented economic crisis that has accompanied it” concluding with the stakeholders announcing their 2021 Action Pledges. 

World Environment Day: 2021

In 1987, the UN decided to rotate the host country for the celebrations of this day. Pakistan will act as the global host of the day in 2021 in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The theme for this year is 'Reimagine. Recreate. Restore', as 2021 marks the beginning of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The decade starting from 2021 to 2030 will mark the goal to reach sustainable development as a practice for man to co-exist with nature.

Call for Blogs: Pride Month 2021

Indian Society for Legal Research invites submissions from legal practitioners, academicians, social workers, policymakers and others belonging to diverse disciplines including law, political science, and human rights. THEME COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LGBTQ RIGHTS IN INDIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN SOUTH ASIA SUB-THEMES Legal protection of the transgender community in South Asia;Decriminalisation of same-sex relations underContinue reading "Call for Blogs: Pride Month 2021"

Food Safety is Everyone’s Business

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly facilitate the observance of World Food Safety Day, in collaboration with Member States and other relevant organizations. This international day is an opportunity to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe, mainstream food safety in the public agenda and reduce the burden of foodborne diseases globally.

Information as a Public Good: Importance of Reliable Information During a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how crucial free access to reliable information can be. In a crisis such as this, it wouldn’t be an understatement to say that information can be a matter of life and death. Conversely, disinformation has speedily increased and it fuels various risks, including, at the present, the risk to public health. Further, it reinforces other challenges such as socio-economic disparity, gender bias, and inequalities of all forms.

The Defence of Parasomnia – Interpreting Criminal Behaviour

Parasomnias are a set of sleep disorders characterized as undesired physical occurrences or sensations that occur during the initiation of sleep, throughout sleep, or during arousal from sleep. Sleepwalking, sleep terrors, sleep talking, and sleep paralysis are some of the behavioral symptoms linked with partial arousals from sleep known as parasomnia. It can happen at any age.

International Day of Innocent Child Victims of Aggression

The United Nations (“UN”) General Assembly on 19th August 1982 had called for an emergency special session to deliberate upon the question of Palestine and decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression in the wake of the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese childrenContinue reading "International Day of Innocent Child Victims of Aggression"

Can International Justice Create Peace? Reflections on Kelsen’s Thoughts on International Law and the Judiciary

I. Hans Kelsen, an Austrian jurist born into a family of Jewish faith, never wanted to become a legal academic. He rather wanted to become a physicist, mathematician or philosopher. But his decision to enter the legal profession was driven by practicability.[1] And yet: his eventual decision in favour of the law bestowed upon himContinue reading "Can International Justice Create Peace? Reflections on Kelsen’s Thoughts on International Law and the Judiciary"