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Supreme Court of India Bobby Art International, Etc Vs Om Pal Singh Hoon & Ors on 1 May, 1996 Author: Bharucha Bench: Cji, S.P
Supreme Court of India Bobby Art International, Etc vs Om Pal Singh Hoon & Ors on 1 May, 1996 Author: Bharucha Bench: Cji, S.P. Bharucha, B.N. Kirpal PETITIONER: BOBBY ART INTERNATIONAL, ETC. Vs. RESPONDENT: OM PAL SINGH HOON & ORS. DATE OF JUDGMENT: 01/05/1996 BENCH: CJI, S.P. BHARUCHA , B.N. KIRPAL ACT: HEADNOTE: JUDGMENT: WITH CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 7523, 7525-27 AND 7524 (Arising out of SLP(Civil) No. 8211/96, SLP(Civil) No. 10519-21/96 (CC No. 1828-1830/96 & SLP(C) No. 9363/96) J U D G M E N T BHARUCHA, J. Special leave granted. These appeals impugn the judgment and order of a Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi in Letters Patent appeals. The Letters Patent appeals challenged the judgment and order of a learned single judge allowing a writ petition. The Letters Patent appeals were dismissed, subject to a direction to the Union of India (the second respondent). The writ petition was filed by the first respondent to quash the certificate of exhibition awarded to the film "Bandit Queen" and to restrain its exhibition in India. The film deals with the life of Phoolan Devi. It is based upon a true story. Still a child, Phoolan Devi was married off to a man old enough to be her father. She was beaten and raped by him. She was tormented by the boys of the village; and beaten by them when she foiled the advances of one of them. A village panchayat called after the incident blamed Phoolan Devi for attempting to entice the boy, who belonged to a higher caste. -
“Low” Caste Women in India
Open Cultural Studies 2018; 2: 735-745 Research Article Jyoti Atwal* Embodiment of Untouchability: Cinematic Representations of the “Low” Caste Women in India https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0066 Received May 3, 2018; accepted December 7, 2018 Abstract: Ironically, feudal relations and embedded caste based gender exploitation remained intact in a free and democratic India in the post-1947 period. I argue that subaltern is not a static category in India. This article takes up three different kinds of genre/representations of “low” caste women in Indian cinema to underline the significance of evolving new methodologies to understand Black (“low” caste) feminism in India. In terms of national significance, Acchyut Kanya represents the ambitious liberal reformist State that saw its culmination in the constitution of India where inclusion and equality were promised to all. The movie Ankur represents the failure of the state to live up to the postcolonial promise of equality and development for all. The third movie, Bandit Queen represents feminine anger of the violated body of a “low” caste woman in rural India. From a dacoit, Phoolan transforms into a constitutionalist to speak about social justice. This indicates faith in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s India and in the struggle for legal rights rather than armed insurrection. The main challenge of writing “low” caste women’s histories is that in the Indian feminist circles, the discourse slides into salvaging the pain rather than exploring and studying anger. Keywords: Indian cinema, “low” caste feminism, Bandit Queen, Black feminism By the late nineteenth century due to certain legal and socio-religious reforms,1 space of the Indian family had been opened to public scrutiny. -
Calendar No. 356
Calendar No. 356 107TH CONGRESS REPORT "! 2d Session SENATE 107–144 ANTI-ATROCITY ALIEN DEPORTATION ACT OF 2001 APRIL 25, 2002.—Ordered to be printed Mr. LEAHY, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany S. 864] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill (S. 864) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who commit acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, or other specified atrocities abroad are inadmissible and removable and to establish within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice an Office of Special Investigations having responsibilities under the Act with respect to all alien participants in war crimes, genocide, and the commission of acts of torture and extrajudicial killings abroad, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and rec- ommends that the bill as amended do pass. CONTENTS Page I. Purpose and need for S. 864 ......................................................................... 1 II. Legislative History ......................................................................................... 2 III. Vote of the Committee ................................................................................... 3 IV. Discussion ....................................................................................................... 3 V. Section-by-Section Analysis ......................................................................... -
The Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies a Meta-Analysis for Africa
The adoption of improved agricultural technologies A meta-analysis for Africa by Aslihan Arslan Kristin Floress Christine Lamanna Leslie Lipper Solomon Asfaw Todd Rosenstock 63 The IFAD Research Series has been initiated by the Strategy and Knowledge Department in order to bring together cutting-edge thinking and research on smallholder agriculture, rural development and related themes. As a global organization with an exclusive mandate to promote rural smallholder development, IFAD seeks to present diverse viewpoints from across the development arena in order to stimulate knowledge exchange, innovation, and commitment to investing in rural people. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IFAD concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The designations “developed” and “developing” countries are intended for statistical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgement about the stage reached in the development process by a particular country or area. This publication or any part thereof may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes without prior permission from IFAD, provided that the publication or extract therefrom reproduced is attributed to IFAD -
Conference Report
“Climate Change, Conflicts and Cooperation in the Arctic” Thilo Neumann (Research Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Doris König, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg) The International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) held its sixth annual Symposium on the premises of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg on 27 September 2008. The range of topics discussed included the impact of climate change on the arctic environment, the identification of possible international disputes and cooperation opportunities in the region. Due to the global impact of changes in the arctic ecosystem and the growing need for the exploration of new fossil fuel deposits, these interdisciplinary questions touching on natural science, political science and law will gain in importance during the next few years and attracted an audience of 122 scholars and practitioners from almost 40 countries to the Symposium. The keen interest in this annual conference indicates that the Foundation has successfully established an interdisciplinary forum for international academic exchange. The Symposium was held in cooperation with the Bucerius Law School, the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law Institute of the University of Hamburg and the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. The Edmund Siemers Foundation and the German Shipowners’ Association supported the event generously. Background Information: The growing global demand for energy is accompanied by the foreseeable exhaustion of the finite number of fossil fuel deposits. The current increase of commodity prices arouses stakeholders’ interest in renewable energy sources 1 and enhances the cost-effectiveness of the exploitation of remote offshore deposits. It was the United States Geological Survey (USGS) which focused general public interest on the resource potential of the arctic region for the first time, when it published its often-cited study in 2000. -
The Hunt for Phoolan Devi
• COVER STORY THE HUNT FOR \ • .\-~ !PHOOLAN '--------I OEVI On theafternoonof31 March, when on an informer'a' rrp-Off the police surrounded Gulauli village in UP)j' Jalaun district, they thought they would finally, get the dacoit queen Phoolan Devi; but she slipped awa;}!. Nirmal Mitra visited Gulauli to report on the massive hunt, and the ~~~ .. encounte~ j.n.which most of Phoolan's gang was wiped out. ~ hoolan Devi. the dacoit PhoOian Devi had been arrested and queen. is a desperate was being brought 10 UP's capital by ~ ~\ woman loday, fun ninA for helicopter; it was later discovered to her life. The whole police be an A.pril Fool's joke. Even the news force of Unar Pradesh agencies had been taken in by this se~msP to be after her; she is every.- prank.) one's prize catcli. More than half of The manner in which Phoolan Devi her small gang has already been wiped escaped from the police on 31 March out in one encounter with the police makes an ahsolutely fascinating story. after another during this war that the typical of all that has come to be police have launched on dacoits after associated with dacoits-violence. wit. the bloody revenge that Phoolan Devi presence of mind, and that important took on the Behmai rhaJcurs (see Sun- mgredient, a sense of honour. It seems day 15 March) who had once insulted straight tiut of a Bombay film. and humiliated her. Other important Raba Mustaqim (he was a Muslim) dacoit leaders are angry':with her; by was killed on 4 March near Akbarpur this one outrage. -
La Regina Dei Banditi.Rtf
EDIZIONE SPECIALE In occasione del IV° Festival Internazionale della Letteratura Resistente Pitigliano - Elmo di Sorano, 8 - 9 - 10 settembre 2006 La Regina dei banditi uno spettacolo di Mutamenti Compagnia Laboratorio MILLELIRE STAMPA ALTERNATIVA con Sara Donzelli Direzione editoriale Marcello Baraghini regia Giorgio Zorcù drammaturgia Federico Bertozzi produzione Accademia Amiata Mutamenti Accademia Amiata Mutamenti Toscana delle Culture 58031 Arcidosso (Gr) tel. 348 4036571 [email protected] Grafica di copertina C&P Adver 3 Le pareti della casa erano spalmate di fango, il tet- to era di paglia. All’interno tre stanze affacciate su un cortiletto. Una per dormire, una per cucinare e una per le mucche. Nessuna finestra, vivevano al buio. Di rado, una scatola di latta con lo stoppino diventava una lampada; olio non ce n’era: costava troppo. A parte tre stuoie nella stanza della notte e una sulla soglia di quella delle mucche, l’unico arre- damento della casa era un tempietto votivo. Nella stagione calda dormivano all’aperto. Le mucche dormivano sempre al chiuso per paura dei ladri. E- rano poveri mallah: possedevano solo i regali del fiume. Alla piccola Phoolan piaceva l’odore della terra bagnata. Ne raccoglieva manciate e le masticava: era un sapore inebriante. Di manghi e lenticchie ne mangiavano pochi. Di giorno, durante il lavoro nei 5 campi, si nutrivano con piselli salati, di sera solo pa- tate. Mentre la veglia si alternava al sonno e il lavo- ro al poco riposo, la fame era continua. Come il re- spiro. Un giorno Phoolan fu convocata dal Pradham, uomo importante, capo di tutti i villaggi del distret- to, perché gli togliesse i pidocchi. -
Sykes Picot Treaty Map
Sykes Picot Treaty Map pigeonholedRollin remains her pansophical tenaculum afterstruttingly, Jean oscillatingbut state Sylvan licitly or tin-plate escribes bewitchingly any hardhacks. or circumstances Unsucceeded grimily. Odell winter cubically. Sometimes detached Filipe At the west bank is missing or civil and picot treaty between maps popped up Syria relations for the International Crisis Group; such as legal fellow made the Institute of first World Affairs, writing on Syria. These geographic twilight zones, where one country ends and the next begins, can be seen in the human networks and linkages among Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, or Syria and Lebanon. This map with him leave mosul under the cynical imperial master, picot map of its determination to the british had expected to recognize the opposition groups in may be. The map of and in thetwentieth century than it ensured palestine will come out sykes picot treaty map of omar then premiums might have sent to survive in? We detect a treaty of sykes told me when he said to draw borders, sykes picot treaty map of iraq, more sensitive to be predominant, causing grief ever. The agreement was ratified and legalised with a proper mandate from the League of Nations at the San Remo Conference. The ottomans in which he has been causing grief ever been carved virtually the sykes picot treaty map does the leaders of the following rules were simply foreign fighters were ready to land. So reserved their impact of sykes picot was a bug for? This is an obvious lesson, but it is regularly ignored. Assad died during second is one reached arab areas of reprisals, and subsequently in town of sykes picot treaty map. -
Note on the Mandate of the High Commissioner for Refugees and His Office
NOTE ON THE MANDATE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES AND HIS OFFICE A. Background Forced displacement and statelessness are undoubtedly matters of concern to the international community. It is in response to these challenges that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and his Office were created as the global refugee institution in the wake of the Second World War. The mandate of the High Commissioner was established by the UN General Assembly [GA] in 1950, born from the experience of different international refugee institutions that had existed in the inter-war period. It was the intention of the GA to ensure that the High Commissioner, supported by his Office, “would enjoy a special status within the UN … possess[ing] the degree of independence and the prestige which would seem to be required for the effective performance of his functions.”1 The High Commissioner is elected directly by the GA, acting under its authority and reporting to it annually.2 The roles and responsibilities outlined in the Statute of the Office are vested in the High Commissioner from which his particular authority is derived. In legal terms, the High Commissioner and his Office form a multilateral, intergovernmental institution, established by the GA as its subsidiary organ3 through resolution 319 A (IV) of 3 December 1949, and provided with its Statute in resolution 428 (V) of 14 December 1950 (Annex).4 The Statute stipulates that the High Commissioner “acting under the authority of the General Assembly, shall assume the function of providing international protection … and of seeking permanent solutions for the problem of refugees.” 5 The Statute is, however, not the only source of law of the mandate of the High Commissioner and his Office. -
Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies
Scientia Militaria South African Journal Of Military Studies ARTICLES Military Involvement in Latin American Politics Dirk Kruijt Small wars and people’s wars: A Clausewitzian perspective on the South African War, 1899–1902 Pieter Labuschagne Evaluating the final military phase of the Border War in South- Eastern Angola 1987 -1988 Janet Szabo Non-coercive defence diplomacy for conflict prevention Robin M. Blake and Yolanda K. Spies Military and security education for regional co-operation - A case study of the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network Gavin Cawthra Peace support operations in sub-Saharan Africa: Lived experiences of emergency care providers during external deployment Tshikani Lewis Khoza, Nombeko Mshunqane and Simpiwe Sobuwa Factors influencing work satisfaction of single parents in the South African National Defence Force: An exploratory study Kgomotso T Matjeke and Gideon AJ van Dyk BOOK REVIEWS Mozambican Civil War: Marxist-apartheid proxy, 1977-1992 Hussein Solomon Volume 47 Number 1 Biafra genocide, Nigeria: Bloodletting and mass starvation, 2019 1967 – 1970 ISSN 2224-0020 (online) Nnaemeka Uwakwe Itiri ISSN 1022-8136 (print) Omega, oor en uit: die storie van ’n opstandige troep scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/ Evert Kleynhans Scientia Militaria NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS South African Journal of Military Studies Scientia Militaria is published bi-annually by the Faculty of Military Science Editors: Prof. Thomas Mandrup (Military Academy), Stellenbosch University. It is an accredited, scholarly journal, which investigates a broad spectrum of matters and issues relating to military affairs, and publishes both discipline-based and inter-disciplinary research. In order to ensure Assistant Editors: Prof. Abel Esterhuyse that articles are of a high quality, all submissions are refereed (peer-reviewed) by Prof. -
Investing in Rural Youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia
Papers of the 2019 Rural Development Report Investing in rural youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia by Nader Kabbani IFAD 60 RESEARCH SERIES The IFAD Research Series has been initiated by the Strategy and Knowledge Department in order to bring together cutting-edge thinking and research on smallholder agriculture, rural development and related themes. As a global organization with an exclusive mandate to promote rural smallholder development, IFAD seeks to present diverse viewpoints from across the development arena in order to stimulate knowledge exchange, innovation, and commitment to investing in rural people. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IFAD concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The designations “developed” and “developing” countries are intended for statistical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgement about the stage reached in the development process by a particular country or area. This publication or any part thereof may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes without prior permission from IFAD, provided that the publication or extract therefrom reproduced is attributed to IFAD and the title of this publication is stated in any publication and that a copy thereof is sent to IFAD. Author: Nader Kabbani © IFAD 2019 All rights reserved ISBN 978-92-9072-977-8-1 Printed December 2019 Investing in rural youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia by Nader Kabbani IFAD This paper was originally commissioned as a background 60 paper for the 2019 Rural Development Report: Creating RESEARCH opportunities for rural youth. -
The Second Palestinian Intifada a Chronicle of a People’S Struggle
The Second Palestinian Intifada A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle RAMZY BAROUD Foreword by Kathleen and Bill Christison Introduction by Jennifer Loewenstein Photographs by Mahfouz Abu Turk and Matthew Cassel Pluto P Press LONDON • ANN ARBOR, MI BBaroudaroud 0000 pprere iiiiii 226/4/066/4/06 008:05:128:05:12 First published 2006 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 www.plutobooks.com Copyright © Ramzy Baroud 2006 The right of Ramzy Baroud to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7453 2548 3 hardback ISBN 0 7453 2547 5 paperback Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Publishing Services Ltd, Fortescue, Sidmouth, EX10 9QG, England Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Printed and bound in the United States of America by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group BBaroudaroud 0000 pprere iivv 226/4/066/4/06 008:05:128:05:12 To Zarefah, Iman, and Sammy, my life’s inspiration BBaroudaroud 0000 pprere v 226/4/066/4/06 008:05:128:05:12 Contents Foreword by Kathleen and Bill Christison viii Preface xiii Acknowledgements xvii Introduction by Jennifer Loewenstein 1 1 The Intifada Takes Off (2000–01) 16 2 Intifada International (2002) 36 3 Calls for Reform (2003) 53 4 Profound