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Enacted. 8 April 1978. Status: In force. The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (PSA) is a preventive detention law under which a person is taken into custody to prevent them from acting harmfully against "the security of the state or the maintenance of the public order" in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (now a union territory).
Pillai practiced law before the Supreme Court of India before joining the Campus Law Centre at the University of Delhi. He joined Cochin University of Science and Technology and became director and later dean of the School of Legal Studies there. He served as the director-designate of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Cochin.
Geneva, Switzerland. Alma mater. Natal University. Harvard Law School. Profession. Jurist. Navanethem " Navi " Pillay (born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. [1] A South African of Indian Tamil origin, Pillay was the first non-white woman judge of ...
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the ...
Public Safety Act, 1953. Act to make provision for the safety of the public and the maintenance of public order in cases of emergency and for matters incidental thereto. In 1953, the Public Safety Act was enacted by the apartheid South African government (coming into force 4 March). This Act empowered the government to declare stringent states ...
t. e. In criminology, a political crime or political offence is an offence that prejudices the interests of the state or its government. [1] States may criminalise any behaviour perceived as a threat, real or imagined, to the state's survival, including both violent and non-violent opposition. A consequence of such criminalisation may be that a ...
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (popularly known as Nirbhaya Act) is an Indian legislation passed by the Lok Sabha on 19 March 2013, and by the Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2013, which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences. [2][3][4] The Bill ...
The Legal Tools Database is an online database on international criminal law. It provides legal practitioners, researchers, students and the general public with open access to all relevant legal sources in international criminal law, including information on the core international crimes ( genocide , crimes against humanity , war crimes and the ...