ENVIRONMENT EVENT CALENDAR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

ENVIRONMENT EVENT CALENDAR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TANISHKA GROVER, Student, Amity Law School, Noida The United Nations Conference on Human Environment, 1972 held in Stockholm, Sweden, also known as Stockholm conference was the first UN conference with a focus on international environmental issues. It laid the foundation stone for global environment governance and also mark the […]Read More

TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) ACT & RULES – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) ACT & RULES – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS NITESH MAHECH, Student, University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU On 26.11.2019, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 was approved by the Rajya Sabha, after having been passed by the Lok Sabha on 05.08.2019. There had been an impassioned debate for further scrutiny, in […]Read More

SDGs FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT- AN EXPLORATION OF INDIA’S PROGRESS TOWARDS ITS ACHIEVEMENT

SDGS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT- AN EXPLORATION OF INDIA’S PROGRESS TOWARDS ITS ACHIEVEMENT –KUSUMIKA SEN, 4th Year B.Com., LL.B. (Hons.), Tamil Nadu National Law University Introduction Sustainable development is a concept which aims to ensure the sustainable use of resources to satisfy the necessities of the current generation without jeopardizing the capability of the future generations […]Read More

INTER-STATE WATER DISPUTE

INTER-STATE WATER DISPUTE – GEETHANJALI K.V., Legal Associate, CEERA-NLSIU; SNEHLATA CHATURVEDI, 4th Year Student, KLE Society’s Law School, Bengaluru MAHEK JAIN, 5th Year Student, Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian Law College, Bengaluru Introduction Water is ‘the stuff of life and a basic human right’.[1] 70% of the Earth’s surface is composed of water; it covers the […]Read More

DIGITAL DEATH

DIGITAL DEATH – S. Balasubramanya, Former Vice-President, Tata Consultancy Services “Most of us now live two lives, one in our actual world and the other in the virtual. When we die, our physical existence might come to an end, but the virtual presence lingers on” Introduction – Digital Asset In a time when most of […]Read More

NLSIU-CEERA TWO-DAY WEBINAR BROCHURE ON “FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION IN INDIA” 7TH AND 8TH AUGUST, 2020

ABOUT THE TWO-DAY WEBINAR ON “FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION IN INDIA” 7TH AND 8TH AUGUST, 2020 In an age when India is witnessing a staggering rise in industrialisation and development, the country is correspondingly facing environmental degradation at a rapid pace.Large scale deforestation, increasing levels of pollution, rise in frequency of natural disasters, rampant depletion […]Read More

Report of the Two-Day Webinar on Migrant Workers and Urban Governance: Responsibilities of Urban Local Bodies and Human Rights. Held on 3-4 July, 2020

Recent spread of a deadly pandemic like COVID-19 has exposed the foundational lacunas in the system which led to mass exodus of the migrant workers rushing back to their hometowns. Desperate to leave the urban areas and to reach their hometowns the migrant workers have rather resorted to dangerous off routes by walking hundreds of […]Read More

TREAD CAUTIOUSLY! SUBVERTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE VIS-À-VIS THE DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020

TREAD CAUTIOUSLY! SUBVERTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE VIS-À-VIS THE DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020 – Lianne Lucia D’souza, Research Fellow, CEERA-NLSIU At a time when the country is staring at widespread ecological destruction in the name of industrial development, the Government of India has taken upon itself the mantle of paradigm shifter by bringing about significant changes […]Read More