What’s in a name? – how changing a name enables human rights violations

Donald Guadagni Names are used as vehicles by State actors to polarize public opinion, and to vilify segments of both the indigenous and foreign populations to achieve a political end or justify State actions against groups by casting the groups into a light that will not garner sympathy, nor illicit public aid and thus, enabling human rights violations, in both national and international theatres. A…

When Human Rights and Psychology Meet

Dr. Deepa Kansra According to many scholars, the human rights instruments of international, regional, and domestic systems have sparked a large and growing number of empirical and interdisciplinary studies. The fields of psychology, anthropology, economics, history, political science, development studies, for instance, have added great vigor to the different human rights frameworks and their application. The interface between psychology and human rights, in particular, has received significant…

Dissent and Democracy

This article is authored by Abhishek Chauhan. He is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. There is an often-quoted statement of Joseph Addison ‘better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honour’, the Supreme Court in Khedat Mazdoor Chetna Sangth v. State of Madhya Pradesh, posed a question to itself, as ‘if dignity or honour vanishes what remains of life?’ This…

“Balancing” Dissent, Protest and Urban Mobility: The Shaheen Bagh Judgment

This piece is written by Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj. The author is an advocate practicing in Delhi and Sonipat. He is a graduate of National Law University, Delhi and holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School where his focus areas of study were constitutional law, media law and human rights In the Shaheen Bagh judgment delivered last month, the Supreme Court held that…

Contemplating ‘Socrates’ and ‘Education Fee’ in the times of a Pandemic

This article is authored by Ashit Kumar Srivastava, an Assistant Professor of Law at National Law University, Jabalpur. In the recent times of this pandemic, with economy taking a plunge, a lot many vital questions are surfacing before us. However, among the lot, the question of ‘Education Fee’ in the times of this pandemic has become a lot more relevant. The fact that majority of…

As the Socio-Political Order Changes, Democratic Institutions Abandon Human Rights

This article is authored by Naveed Mehmood Ahmad who has completed his Masters in Law (Access to Justice) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and is currently working as a legal research fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Delhi. Introduction Samuel P. Huntington in his article entitled The Clash of Civilizations? which was published in 1993, argued that the source of conflict in the post-cold war…

‘Dialogic’ Judicial Review, Courts and the Migrant Crisis in India

This article is authored by Shreyans Jain, an advocate practicing at Madhya Pradesh High Court. This article concerns itself with the concept of ‘dialogic’ judicial review and argues that the ‘dialogue’ provides an extremely effective mechanism for dealing with the tragic migrant crisis across the nation. Definition and Nature There is a rich jurisprudence around the definition of constitutional/institutional ‘dialogue’ but simplistically, ‘dialogic’ judicial review…

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