A Comparative Overview of Refugee Rights in Europe and India (Published)
By the end of 2016, nearly 5.2 million refugees and migrants reached Europe undergoing severe hardships.[1] Torn apart by war and persecution, most people arrived in Europe from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Since 2015 many have lost their lives or have gone missing. Women and Children are among the most vulnerable. Policymakers and academics have long proposed cross-regional comparative analyses of policies and laws to enable different regions to learn from the experiences of each other. Against this background, the article provides a comparative overview of the refugee rights and concerns in the EU and in India. The article demonstrates the possibilities for sharing and learning from each other good practices concerning protection of the rights of vulnerable groups and integration provisions.
Keywords: Europe, India, comparative overview, refugee rights
Bangladesh-India Lead Acid Battery Case: Importance of WTO’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Lesson for LDCs (Published)
Bangladesh-India trade dispute over India’s imposition of anti-dumping duty on Bangladesh’s lead acid battery export is a significant event in the history of World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism. After 10 years of WTO’s establishment, this was the first instance when a least developed country (LDC) challenged a much stronger economy at the highest level of trade related international legal process. After the beginning of the legal proceedings, India’s decision to go back to negation table to find a mutually agreed solution and subsequent termination of anti-dumping duty proves that the process is important for making the big economies follow the norms and laws of international trade. In addition, the very existence of such mechanism acts as a deterrent against arbitrary enactment of unfair, unlawful and unilateral trade measures. Finally, this is a milestone for other LDCs to overcome the psychological barrier of standing up against stronger economies and claim their fair rights in international trade regime.
Keywords: Bangladesh, India, LDC, Trade Dispute, WTO, dispute settlement mechanism