National Law University, Odisha
FGM is practiced in over 30 countries and is carried out on girls between infancy to early puberty and in most cases, without their consent- affecting nearly 200 million girls and women alive today.
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The growing Islamophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic is yet another instance which exposes India’s religious fault lines and its failure to curb violations of its domestic as well as international legal obligations
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July 4, 2019 was marked by the British Marines seizure of an oil tanker Grace 1, purported to be carrying Iranian oil to Syria, in violation of EU sanction laws at the port of Gibraltar. In what many perceived as a reciprocal move by Iran, the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) on July 19, 2019, seized two oil tankers, one registered in the UK, the other in Liberia, in the Strait of Hormuz, marking a dramatic escalation in the rising tensions in the Gulf. This article chronicles these two events and studies it from a position of International law.
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This article has been divided into two parts. First part envisages to analyse the validity of Japan’s argument that the move has been made because there is a risk to ‘national security’ and therefore, it is covered under the ‘security exception’ of Article XXI, GATT. Second part analyses the consequence of Japan’s actions on the economies of South Korea and Japan and it also evaluates the effect on global supply chain of semiconductors.
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Turkey and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have had an enduring relationship since Ankara joined the Alliance in 1952. While the security challenges for both Turkey and NATO have significantly changed after some time, Turkey’s job inside the Alliance and how Turkey sees the advantages of being an individual from NATO as far as […]
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Introduction: As of September 2019, over 59,503 refugees have crossed the turbulent Mediterranean Sea in their unseaworthy sea vessels to seek refuge in Europe. European countries often intercept such refugees at sea in their territorial waters and sometimes in the high seas. These interceptions have been justified by States citing various reasons, the legality of […]
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No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused– Edward Snowden Data retention has turned the world into a large surveillance state where the actions of each individual is being monitored. This process has made the government ‘the big brother’ which can […]
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In the recent times, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has advanced to the position of a nuclear power, at the same time drawing attention on itself both by other countries as well as the media. This means much more than mere increase in its weaponry. The decade old persistent strive for independence and opposition […]
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In July, the introduction of Fugitive Offenders Amendment Bill triggered a series of protests in Hong Kong. The bill sought to extradite criminal fugitives to territories in which they are wanted, even if there is no extradition agreement to this effect with Hong Kong. This includes China and Taiwan, which triggered the outcry. The major […]
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In June 2019, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research recently reported increased rates of forest fires in the Amazon Rainforest which was also supported by the findings of NASA. It was reported that there has been an occurrence of more than 80,000 fires in Brazil this year more than half of which occurred in the […]
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