as they please, and India could then choose to sign GATT without opting for the other twa This is however unlikely to be conceded, and, if so, we should insist that if these are to be seen as one...
Civil Liberties
Press Freedom and Tribunals A G Noorani Are statutory tribunals entitled to ask the media not to comment on proceedings pending before them? ALTHOUGH the official who triggered off a virtual threat...
Violence and Civil Rights A G Noorani Amnesty International's stand on the use of violence by activists is not a moral one but derives from other more practical considerations.
Preventive Detention in India A G Noorani The Preventive Detention Act, 1950 was passed as a temporary measure to meet a specific situation. Today the act (under a different guise) has acquired a...
Freedom of Press as an Institution A G Noorani The time has come to recognise explicitly the right to freedom of the press
Freedom of Speech in Universities A G Noorani As creatures of statute, our universities fall within the definition of 'the state' in the Constitution and, therefore, the entire chapter on the...
India's International Accountability on Human Rights A G Noorani The UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights requires India to report on its observance of the Covenant. This year...
out in full-throated support of the axiomatic proposition, that the Indian Copyright Act must be amended exclusively to protect the rights to Tagore's works of a self-seeking coterie, whose only...
Students' Rights A G Noorani A recent Supreme Court disposition clarifies some legal issues regarding the rights and duties of students and educational institutions and is an addition to the growing...
India and Amnesty A G Noorani Amnesty International is not anti-Indian. On facts, like any mortal, Amnesty's observers can go wrong. The answer is a corrective response, not condemnation; a dialogue...
senators' cupboards. Simpson, when he met Saddam Hussein a few months ago, had told him that "the frightful things being said about you and your police state must be the work of a maligned press. I...
undertaken by BIFR is necessarily constrained by considerations of judicial equity but experience has also shown that the judicial process can be imaginatively used to mediate among the different...
Right to Receive Foreign Telecasts A G Noorani In a confused attempt to protect 'native culture' from cultural invasion through foreign television programmes, the committee constituted for the...
Gulf War and Censorship A G Noorani A London-based organisation has issued a report which lists restrictions on and incidents arising out of reporting on the Gulf war.
Duty to Asylum Seekers A G Noorani A recent court ruling in UK highlights the fact that despite seemingly strict international laws protecting the rights of refugees, they have in fact to circumvent...
