UPCOMING PROJECT
Human Dignity International has recently embarked upon a unique project. We take immense pleasure in announcing the commencement of our new project on “Mooting and International law”. This project is a web series in which there will be a 30 minute short film about mooting in law schools with special relevance to international law and promotion of International law as a choice of career.
It will be made into a fictional drama and the story will revolve around the personal lives of the lead characters and how they take up the case, prepare for it and present it before the panel of judges. For more information visit HDI's Current Projects page.
It will be made into a fictional drama and the story will revolve around the personal lives of the lead characters and how they take up the case, prepare for it and present it before the panel of judges. For more information visit HDI's Current Projects page.
Special Feature
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A ROAD TO BRIDGE NORTH-SOUTH GAP
- Yashasvi Nain Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab For thousands of years countries have anchored their currencies to one of the precious metals or to another currency. But in the quarter century since the international monetary system broke down, countries have been on their own, a phenomenon that has no historical precedent in the cooperative game known as the international monetary system. -Robert Mundell To understand the current problems of developing countries it is very necessary to throw some light on the historical background. To tackle such problem we should go back to history and remember that how powerful European countries benefitted economically from the natural resources of their colonial territories or such other countries as those in Latin America, which, though, got independence in the early nineteenth century, but were long under de facto domination of industrialized States.[1] For example when in the period 1780-1840 when the Britain witnessed rapid industrial growth, it had few natural resources of its own (prominently coal and iron) but it was capable of manufacturing goods in relatively high volumes and efficiency, it found it useful to import mineral primary commodities from the backward countries (tin, copper, petroleum, tungsten).Read More.. Arms Trade Treaty: A ray of hope to change the way world fights?
- Dr. Sanoj Rajan,
Associate Director, Program on HPCR Harvard University As around 150 states started negotiating on the final terms of the proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in New York on 18 March 2013, the expectations from the regulation on the global trade on conventional weapons are keeping high. Started as a movement to find solution to the lethal consequences of the uncontrolled arms trade, the impact of ATT would be multifarious, which could change the lives of millions caught up in violent situations. Read more Shahbag Movement and the Mandatory Death Penalty for Alleged War Criminals in Bangladesh- The International Crimes Tribunal Revisited
- Dr. Sanoj Rajan,
Associate Director, Program on HPCR Harvard University Recent mass movement in Bangladesh, demanding capital punishment for the accused war criminals before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Bangladesh and the subsequent amendment to the International Crimes Tribunal Act of 1973 (ICTA) by the Bangladeshi government on February 17, 2013, once again raises the much-debated question regarding the fairness of ICT’s prosecution.... Read More Judge Philip Caryl Jessup and Human Dignity
- Late Prof. (Dr.) S.R.S. Bedi
Former Prof. of Law Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Judge Philip Caryl Jessup, a former judge of the International Court of Jurist (1961 – 1970) was an American diplomat, scholar, and jurist from New York, born on 5 January 1897. A law graduate from Yale Law School and having obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia Law School, he was a Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the CLS from 1925-1946. From 1946 to 1961 he was Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the same law school. Meanwhile, he also had the honor and privilege of serving and participating in: (i) Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Conference in 1943; (ii) a delegate to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, popularly known as the "Bretton Woods" conference) (in 1944); and (iii) as a technical advisor to the American delegation to the San Francisco United Nations charter conference in 1945. Respect for human dignity was at the very core of Judge Jessup’s legal thinking. As far back as 1947-1948, even before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into existence, Jessup strongly suggested in his 1948 publication of A Modern Law of Nations that in order to have a truly progressive development of international law -- which he chose to call as “a modern law of nations” as the very title of his book-- must accord individuals a “high priority.” And, in order to promote and materialize this “high priority” for individual human dignity, he opposed the unilateral use of force by States and instead proposed (i) force monopoly of international community; (ii) an “international government;” and (iii) that “collective will” of States must prevail over “individual will” of state. In this vein he emphatically stated in the same book..... Read More
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Message from the Founders
Our history is infighting of human in the name of region, religion, ethnicity and boundaries of nation-state ignoring the element of human dignity. The emerging issues of International law has significant concern about human beings by accentuating the Human Rights, the next step towards the protection of Human Dignity. We, at Human Dignity International endeavor to bring forth the idea of Human Dignity in the various principles governing Public International Law. The organization is committed to promote academic and research initiatives in the field of Public International Law at large. The organization aims to lay down a milestone in recognizing and establishing the concept of Human Dignity in the International arena. Any suggestion from the reader to promote this noble cause is welcomed by the Founders.
Yashasvi Nain Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland Tathagata Chatterjee Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, India Students Corner
Announcement
International Law Journal: Deadlines
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