Category: International Law
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Abstract Persecuted Rohingya have got their shelters in Bangladesh. They are huge in numbers and it is not the first time that they have been here. Persecution is also not a thing that the...
PRINCIPLE: Protective Principle. If a crime committed outside of the country by a foreign national which effect that country he may be charged for High Treason FACT OF THE CASE: The appellant, Mr Joyce...
The United Nations[1] have grown into a very powerful organization in the world today. We have all heard the saying, “with great power, comes great responsibility”. However, some people argue that the UN cannot...
Public interest litigation (PIL) means a legal action, initiated by a person motivated by public interest, for the enforcement of public interest or fundamental rights, of public at large or a class of the...
The contemporary development and use of technology have changed our life forever, a new interconnected space called cyberspace has taken over the traditional way of living on a worldwide platform, unlike any other platform...
International organizations have evolved over time to meet the demand of the ever-changing world, in this process institutions have faced new challenges, waived primitive thought and adopted new policies as well. This sort of...
The realization of the importance of environment has opened a new area of thoughts and activates, states have come to the point where they accepted the reality of overwhelming demand as the main challenge...
In relation to Environment, ownership of natural resources matters and how those resources used has a direct connection to the environment. In this regard, Bangladesh inherited a colonial legal structure that promoted feudal ownership...
Nature used to play with its own rule with the harmony of environment and climate but slowly we the humans took control over the thus changes the balance of ecosystem, as a consequence things...
The Savarkar Case, 1911, France v the UK PRINCIPLE: Once asylum is refused and returned to the native authority can not be extradited back as asylum holder. Once a request of asylum is refused or...
The lockerbie Case 1992, Libya V USA, UK, ICJ Principle: No country is bound to extradite. Special Extradition can be made on special circumstances. Extradition is a matter of bilateral treaty. Fact: Pan Am...
Introduction “In summary, our aim in this symposium is to introduce readers to the concept of international institutional bypasses, provide concrete examples, and show that this concept can be of great value in attempts...
“Independence” the word symbolizes the freedom; in this age of human rights, when people are killed to establish such rights around the world. It seems that everyone is pro-independence helping the straggling people for...
Immediately after Second World War, the socio-economic conditions of both allies and axis were devastated, the total economic system had collapsed both the relationship between the countries and the infrastructure needed to reestablish. At...
‘The Myanmar government has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in north- western Rakhaine state, the government said, while thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled across the border to Bangladesh’. This was...
Mr Ioane Teitiota (pronounced Tess-ee-yo-tah) claimed that his life is in danger, he needs to survive and therefore he applied for the refugee status in New Zealand, unlike any other ground this ground also...
Freedom of high sea is the concept adopted from the book Mare Liberum the meaning of which in English is “the freedom of the sea”; a book by great legal mind, Hugo Grotius. Where...
Peremptory norms in International Law (Jus Cogens) the prohibition Jus cogens (compelling law) is a fundamental principle of international law Accepted by the international community of states As a norm from which no derogation...
Treaty The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties defines a treaty as “an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in...
War is fear, it is nothing but raw violence but sometimes it cannot be avoided. There are laws to prevent the war. Yet states continue to wage wars and groups still take up weapons...