Armed Forces Special Power Act 1958 (AFSPA) is one such law in India which violates women rights intentionally or unintentionally. Civil rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu has been on a fast for the past 14 years against this Act. On the one hand state (Police Forces) targets women and ...
The demands for the repeal of AFSPA, an Act that gives sweeping powers to the armed forces to arrest without warrants and even shoot to kill in certain situations in ‘disturbed areas’, from Nagaland and other north-eastern states has persisted for years and only grew louder following the Mo...
Henceforth, in the name of counter-insurgency, rapid militarization's are gaining upper hand which is followed by implementation of anti-democratic laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA), 1958. The implementation of such laws in the region has created more problems that ...
In this paper, my major concern is with the arbitrary law-enforcement by the state in the name of promoting security, but in the process sacrificing the basic human rights of the people. The case study, which I will be using, is that of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958), a ...
Henceforth, in the name of counter-insurgency, rapid militarization's are gaining upper hand which is followed by implementation of anti-democratic laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA), 1958. The implementation of such laws in the region has created more problems that ...