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Zurich’s Dr Dolittle is a lawyer
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
On the position of animal welfare attorney
The office of animal welfare attorney exists only in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It was created because no one stands up for the animal. We have animal welfare legislation but if you complain the case is unlikely to be taken seriously. This post was created 19 years ago to ensure that the accused can hire an attorney and the animal’s interests are protected.
Interviewee:
Antoine Goetschel
State of conflict
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2010
Legal Grounds has come out at an opportune time.
No developed land for farmers
@AparnaPallavi1 Issue Date: Jan 31, 2010
THE Maharashtra government has gone back on its promise to give developed land to farmers who cede land for infrastructure and industrial projects. In December¤ the state amended the law that provided farmers developed land in lieu of land acquired from them.
Very little amendment
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2009
1992 was a landmark year for local governments in India. Parliament passed the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments which gave panchayats and municipalities such powers to function as institutions of self-government with regard to matters under the Constitution's Eleventh and Twelfth Schedule. Wat have been the fortunes of these Acts?
Kill bills
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Left and right unite to stall twin bills in Parliament
THE land acquisition bill and the resettlement and rehabilitation bill, criticized for harming land rights of people living in rural areas, were turned down in the Rajya Sabha on February 26. This was a day after the twin bills were rushed through the Lok Sabha.
Trial by error
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
New US rules to free clinical trials of ethics
Land acquisition, rehabilitation bills cater to corporate interests
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Two pieces of legislation, which will impact millions of people displaced or threatened with displacement in the name of development, will soon come up for discussion in the monsoon session of Parliament. ngos and activists, however, warn that rather than addressing the issue of forcible displacement, the twin bills--Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2007, and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2007--will set the ground for aiding corporate interests in land.
On the impacts of nanotechnology
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2008
We hear about nanotechnology everywhere but we seldom hear of its impacts. Is it good or bad?
We are just beginning to understand the nature and the extent of adverse effects that nanomaterials can cause. Nanomaterials, as the name suggests, are so small that they can easily pass through the cell wall. They are also capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier--a membrane in brain capillaries that normally doesn't allow any toxic particle in the bloodstream to enter into the brain.
Interviewee:
Barry Castleman
Sunil Shaunak on ethical medicine, patent laws
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2007
What exactly do you mean by ethical pharmaceuticals?
This idea was triggered when Steve Brocchini (a colleague and a research chemist at the London School of Pharmacy) and I started taking the aids epidemic seriously. Many people were dying due to lack of access to drugs. We wanted to take another look at how to make medicines affordable for the poor.
Interviewee:
Sunil Shaunak
