On 12 April 2012‚ in its historical decision the Supreme Court (SC) of India threw its weight behind the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act‚ 2009. The court upheld the constitutional validity of RTE Act that guarantees children free and compulsory education from the age of 6 to 14 years of age. The judgment makes it mandatory for the government‚ local authorities and private schools to reserve 25 percent of their seats for ‘weaker and disadvantaged sections’ of society. The
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Problematizing the “Right to be Forgotten”: A Study of “Memory” and “History” Memory is not only preserved in writing but also conserved digitally and history as a discipline is a document of collective memory. Contrary to such a practice‚ there is a strong move towards the implementation of the “Right to be forgotten” as basic human right. The “Right to be forgotten” can be explained as a claim of an individual to ensure that certain data (internet record) is deleted so that it is untraceable by
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the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence‚ the authors describe the people who are allowed to rule. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution‚ which is the law of the land in the United States. The Declaration of Independence is the document that the U.S. sent to Great Britain to declare their independence from them. The problem with these two documents is that they were written by and for the rich people of the time and hasn’t really evolved with time to accommodate
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08The Right to Vote Throughout history‚ humans are given many rights‚ for instance‚ the freedom of speech‚ religion‚ and many more. But one that stuck out to me lately and recently took an influence on my life was the right to vote. I did indeed vote because this past election was a historic election and also because later on down the road‚ I didn’t want to be the one complaining about something that I could have changed or helped by voting. Ever since the United States became independent‚ people
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allowed to get married. 31 states have put those minority rights up to a vote and in all 31 of those states‚ that minority rights issue has gone down to defeat. But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.” There should be legislation allowing same sex marriage in all states of the United States. They should be treated like any other American and receive the same rights as everyone else. Most states in the United States have
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RIGHT TO INFORMATION The Government of India always lays emphasis on making the lives of its citizens easy‚ smooth and making India truly democratic and keeping this in mind the RTI Act has been established. RTI stands for Right To Information and has been given the status of a fundamental right under Article 19(1) of the Constitution. Article 19 (1) under which every citizen has freedom of speech and expression and have the right to know how the government works‚ what role does it play‚ what are
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Slavery was an issue in our society for a long period of time and no matter what your opinion is; we can all agree that it wasn’t right to treat humans like property. It’s also important to know more about the history of slavery in America and how people suffered. the abolitionist made a stop for it. Slavery is the act of treating people as a property where all slaves belonged to a master that they were forced to serve. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and he was the first European to
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celebrities have a right to privacy? I believe they do in their own homes. However‚ in the public‚ they do not. The public space does not grant you privacy regardless of your status. The media has a right to freedom of expression‚ as stated in Article 19 of the 1st Amendment. Although I don’t follow media magazines or tabloids such as TMZ‚ I believe the freedom of expression should be defended‚ and that celebrities do not have a right to privacy in the public space. All US citizens have a right to privacy
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Protecting Foetal Rights Angela Kim LWSO 335 Linda McKay-Panos Spring 2006 I. Introduction "Prenatal Substance Abuse and Judicial Intervention" by Richard D. Bell. Many dissenting views on judicial intervention in pregnancy and birth exist. In his article‚ Bell demonstrates his disagreement with the decision put forward by Shulman J. in the Winnipeg Child and Family Services case against G. (D. F.) to intervene and impose treatment on a pregnant‚ substance abusing woman. For Bell
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The Right of Privacy is one of the broadest yet most controversial rights we have‚ but it is not specifically in the U.S. constitution. There are however‚ a few Amendments that are the key to defining the right of privacy with the most important consisting of the 1st‚ 3rd‚ 4th‚ 5th‚ 9th and the 14th. Cases taken to the Supreme Court are also a substantial part of the Right of Privacy in a more specific way in which the highest courts of the United States decide upon the most controversial cases.
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