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.
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Why Bodies Matter: An Analysis from Legal Perspective
Introduction Legal Jurisprudence accords high stature to bodily integrity. This vehicle for awakening has DNA engulfed with precious information of our lineage making privacy, bodily integrity, dignity and property command veneration in the eyes of law. But floating bodies in UP and Bihar reveal that the treatment meted out to the dead is amateurish. AccordingContinueContinue reading “Why Bodies Matter: An Analysis from Legal Perspective”
Ensuring Right to Decent Burial in Post Covid-19 India
Asthi Visarjan is a very significant ritual in the Hindu religion which basically means immersion of the left ashes collected from Antim Sanskar (last rites)of a dead person. But in the time of Covid-19 the basic meaning of “Asthi Visarjan” i.e., immersion of ashes have been misunderstood as ‘Bodies’ now. And we saw that ‘Bodies’ContinueContinue reading “Ensuring Right to Decent Burial in Post Covid-19 India”
The Tragic Failure of the Medical Infrastructure in the Country
The article discusses the tragic failure of the medical infrastructure in the country which resulted in a large number of casualties and sufferings caused to the citizens all over the country. The author believes that the government at Centre, State and Union Territory level shall be held responsible for compensating the loss available under Constitution of India and other laws both civil and criminal as applicable.
WTO Members Agreed to Continue Discussion on IP Waiver in Response to COVID-19
The WTO members on 10 December agreed to continue discussion on the proposal initiated by India and South Africa at the meeting of the Council on TRIPS. The proposal was made for a temporary waiver of certain TRIPS obligations in response to COVID-19. The proposal was later on co-sponsored by delegations of Kenya, Eswatini, Pakistan,ContinueContinue reading “WTO Members Agreed to Continue Discussion on IP Waiver in Response to COVID-19”
Covid-19 & Sovereignty: Should we blame the WHO?
The whole world is currently living the Covid-19, a pandemic that has once again put forward the discussion about what is understood, or should be understood by “sovereignty”. Indeed, a pandemic is a global problem that represents a challenge and the need to acknowledge state sovereignty and international cooperation as non-exclusive concepts.
Humanitarian Shifts in the International Legal System in a post Pandemic World : Sinking International Citizen(ship) or Reclaiming Domestic Self-Determination?
The thatcherism’s complacent, yet condescending reliance on neoliberalism makes way, a crucial question is what readjustments does International Law imminently implement to address the challenges posed by a World of extreme economic adversity, extreme poverty and displacement, managing the Future of work in the era of demands, the CoVID Pandemic makes on us ?
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