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Papers by Dr. Ruchi Lal (SOL Associate Professor )
International Journal of Law, 2017
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Indian Journal of International Law, 2019
The primary obligations to respect, protect, and ensure the enjoyment of human rights of refugees... more The primary obligations to respect, protect, and ensure the enjoyment of human rights of refugees under international convention rests with the states by passing suitable domestic legislation or otherwise. Likewise for the social and economic rights of the refugees. Being in a foreign country, refugees are most vulnerable to the deprivation of minimum subsistence rights like right to work, education, housing, as well as physical and mental health. Since flight to safety cannot always be planned and majority of them do not have any valuable possessions, refugees are often dependent upon host country for their survival needs. Failure of the state to guarantee adequate social and economic conditions to refugees may result in violation of their right to life and the prohibition of discrimination amongst various refugees. A deprivation of social and economic rights to refugees, insofar as it forestalls them from realizing an adequate standard of living, arguably, amounts to indirect refoulement. Such a denial of basic survival rights is most likely to force the refugees to return to their country of origin where they maybe continued danger of being persecuted. Keywords Social and economic rights Á Refugees Á International Covenant on Economic Á Social and Cultural Rights Á Refugee Convention The world today is facing one of the worst refugee crises since the aftermath of the Second World War. According to the refugee statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of December 2017 there are about 22 million refugees around the world. 1
An imperative investment for economies across the world today, especially for developing countrie... more An imperative investment for economies across the world today, especially for developing countries like India, is e-governance with a vision of ensuring effectiveness and transparency in governance. At the outset, the focus of e-governance outlay was primarily on strengthening the hardware aspect of Information and Communication Technology hardware. However, the second generation expenditure now is more focused upon making e-governance a driving force for creating SMART governance wherein SMART stands for simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent governance. In India as well, the focus of e-governance is to realise the vision of digital India i.e. to ensure that governmental services are made available to public at large via electronic media. This paper begins with tracing the development of ICT in India and highlights the need for having a holistic statutory backing for E-Governance in the country. The paper further progresses to scrutinize the present legal & regulato...
International Journal of Law, 2017
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Indian Journal of International Law, 2019
The primary obligations to respect, protect, and ensure the enjoyment of human rights of refugees... more The primary obligations to respect, protect, and ensure the enjoyment of human rights of refugees under international convention rests with the states by passing suitable domestic legislation or otherwise. Likewise for the social and economic rights of the refugees. Being in a foreign country, refugees are most vulnerable to the deprivation of minimum subsistence rights like right to work, education, housing, as well as physical and mental health. Since flight to safety cannot always be planned and majority of them do not have any valuable possessions, refugees are often dependent upon host country for their survival needs. Failure of the state to guarantee adequate social and economic conditions to refugees may result in violation of their right to life and the prohibition of discrimination amongst various refugees. A deprivation of social and economic rights to refugees, insofar as it forestalls them from realizing an adequate standard of living, arguably, amounts to indirect refoulement. Such a denial of basic survival rights is most likely to force the refugees to return to their country of origin where they maybe continued danger of being persecuted. Keywords Social and economic rights Á Refugees Á International Covenant on Economic Á Social and Cultural Rights Á Refugee Convention The world today is facing one of the worst refugee crises since the aftermath of the Second World War. According to the refugee statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of December 2017 there are about 22 million refugees around the world. 1
An imperative investment for economies across the world today, especially for developing countrie... more An imperative investment for economies across the world today, especially for developing countries like India, is e-governance with a vision of ensuring effectiveness and transparency in governance. At the outset, the focus of e-governance outlay was primarily on strengthening the hardware aspect of Information and Communication Technology hardware. However, the second generation expenditure now is more focused upon making e-governance a driving force for creating SMART governance wherein SMART stands for simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent governance. In India as well, the focus of e-governance is to realise the vision of digital India i.e. to ensure that governmental services are made available to public at large via electronic media. This paper begins with tracing the development of ICT in India and highlights the need for having a holistic statutory backing for E-Governance in the country. The paper further progresses to scrutinize the present legal & regulato...