States have become schizophrenic, accepting obligations one day, undoing them the next, committing themselves to do something and then coming back on their commitments, ratifying treaties which will soon be contradicted by another treaty signed in another international forum. The same States...

NHRC considers “terrorism as a mad violator of human rights.” Terrorism involves a two-way violation and concerns both its victims and perpetrators; needless to say, a threat to national security as well. While discussing terrorism and human rights, one misses an important aspect which...

Safety and security is one of the important issues involved in development of civil aviation nationally as well as internationally. There is a slight distinction between the concepts of ‘safety' and ‘security'. Further, the growth of terrorism and terrorists using aircraft as a new tool for...

In July 2004, the Working Group on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy at WTO was made inactive post decision by General Council at Cancun as the proposal to have a formal multilateral framework to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and development...