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SAFE URBAN SPACES FOR WOMEN SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE INTRODUCTION Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual behaviour, which could be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated. It can be physical, verbal or written.  Sexual harassment is covered in the workplace when it happens: • at work • at work-related events • between people sharing the same workplace • between colleagues outside of work.  It involves employees, managers, agents, clients, customers and others

ELECTORAL REFORMS: IN INDIA INTRODUCTION “The health of a democracy depends on the choice of representatives and leaders, which in turn is directly linked to the way political parties function and elections are conducted”. The government of India is quasi-judicial; theofficials are elected at the federal, state and local levels. The head of the Government, Prime Minister is indirectly elected by the people of the country, through the General Election where the leader of the party winning in majority

constitutional controversy of great significance vis-à-vis Art.356 was raised in State of Rajasthan v. Union of India.. When the general elections for Lok sabha were held in the country in 1977, after the lifting of emergency of 1975, the Congress Party was badly routed in several States by the Janata Party which won a large number of seats in Lok Sabha and, thus, formed the government at the Centre. In these States, Congress Ministers were functioning at the time and they still had some more time to

The Registration Drives for Voter ID Card Application The Election Commission of India is an organization that looks after the voters as well as the elections. For voters, it works in such a way that they have least number of difficulties with Voter ID Card Application process. Consequently ensuring a high voter turnout. This high turnout is hence achieved when most of the citizens are registered as voters. When this registration process has minimal loopholes and discrepancies, the number of those

Topic- Remedies for domestic violence in India India is a male-dominated country where women have to face various violence in the society from the ancient time. As the world is going towards technology development but women are dominated from ancient times by un-natural sex, abuse and domestic violence. Rapes and murders have been so common now-a-days. Other violence are like harassment, assault, and chain-snatching, etc have been involved in the daily routine in the modern Indian society. Violence

Among the remarkable women who have wake up this world, Amrita Pritam surely ranks high. Born in 1919 in Gujranwala, the western part of Punjab, presently in Pakistan, She was the only child of a school teacher and a poet. Her father Kartar Singh Hitkari was a well-known teacher cum scholar as well as a preacher of Sikhism. Her mother died in 1930, hence she moved to Lahore with her father. The demise of her mother followed up Amrita with misery and adult responsibilities at an early age, which eventually

Article 123 and 213 of the Indian Constitution grant the President and the Governor the ordinance making powers respectively. Ordinarily the Parliament is responsible for the law making process, but the makers of the Constitution though considering Ordinances to be “a necessary evil”, hold that the Ordinance making power should be delegated to the Executive to deal with such situations when the existing law is not enough to deal with the aroused situation and the Parliament is not in session. This

Table of Cases- 1.) Meera Dhungana on behalf of FWLD v HMG 2.) Tuka Ram And Anr vs State Of Maharashtra 1979 AIR 185, 1979 SCR (1) 810 3.) Vishaka sawhney Vs State of Rajasthan AIR 1997 SC 3011, (1998) 4.) Bhe v Khayelitsha Magistrate 5.) Prosecutor v Tadic, Prosecutor v Furundžija, and Prosecutor v Kunarac, Kovac & Vukovic. (Kunarac); and Prosecutor v Akayesu 6.) Gonzalez and others (“Cotton Field”) v Mexico 7.) Lovelace v Canada 8.) The Attorney General of The Republic of Botswana v Unity Dow 9

Ilavarsan died on July 4. His body was found on a culvert adjoining the railway track in Dharmapuri(Tamil Nadu) with severe and fatal injuries that the police say were due to his being hit by a train as a result of a suicide bid. His relatives, however, insist that he was murdered. The first post-mortem concluded that he had committed suicide. The family then moved the high court seeking another post-mortem.Ilavarasan’s tragic end was the result of the most dangerous and flammable mixture in India

traditional communities, particularly in the more remote villages, she is still expected to shave her head and live like an ascetic, sleeping on the ground, living only to fast and pray for her departed spouse. (50) When Kanaklatha, a widow in Vrindavan says ' This is not life,'…..'We all died the day our husbands died. How can anyone describe our pain? Our hearts are all on fire with sorrow. Now we just wait for the day when all this will end.' It’s clear how much pain and sufferings they