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Item Corruption and Human Rights in India(APH Publishing Corporation,, 2012) Pathak, PuneetItem Honor Killing: Redeeming Honor Through Violence Against Women(APH Publishing Corporation,, 2012) Pathak, PuneetItem Universal Human Rights : From Concepts to Reality(University Book House, 2013) Pathak, PuneetItem International Legal protection of Children in Armed Conflicts(Regal, 2013) Pathak, PuneetItem Access to Internet as Human right(The Legal Analyst, 2012) Pathak, PuneetItem UNEP as Global Environmental Authority: Debate about Upgrading to UNEO(academique: An interdisciplinary discussion group, 2015) Pathak, PuneetInternational environmental organizations play a pivotal role in monitoring, agenda setting and capacity development of a global environmental regime. United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) since its inception in 1972 has established itself as an anchor institution for all activities relating to environmental protection. It performs the multifarious task in partnership with diverse groups, including specialized agencies of the United Nations, governments, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), businesses, industry, the media and civil society. The mission of the programme is to inspire and support nations and communities to improve their quality of life, without compromising that of future generations. The article engages with the theoretical debate on the role of UNEP facilitating as a central platform for all global activities of environmental protection. It provides an overview of its structure, functions and the contribution of UNEP in the protection of the natural environment. Further, it also focuses on current debate regarding the establishment of the United Nations Environmental Organization (UNEO) with an insight into the current status of UNEP.Item Surrogacy: Reproductive Rights or Business(Unistar Books Pvt. Ltd, 2016) Arora, Hans Raj; Pathak, PuneetItem Acceptability of Judicial Activism in India Perspective(Universal Multidisciplinary Research Institute Pvt Ltd, 2016) Pathak, PuneetAlthough the debate on the judicial activism has been around since the days of Blackstone and Bentham.Thetraditional role of the judge has always been considered as that of an impartial arbitrator who hears the argument of both parties and renders justice without interfering in the debate of the matter. The changing attitude of the Supreme Court of India in its journey from Supreme Court of India to Supreme Court for Indians which shed their character as upholders of the established system legitimised the expending role of judiciary from mere arbitrator to a catalyst of social change and full fill the vacuum created due to passiveness of other organs of the government. The landscape of recent verdicts of Supreme Court clearly evident that it not only makes law in the sense of the realist jurisprudence but actually has started legislating exactly as the legislature legislates. In this background the paper intended to insights into the metamorphosis of judicial activism in India.Item International Environmental Crime: A growing concern of International Environmental Governance(David Publishing Company, 2016) Pathak, PuneetDespite much development of the soft as well as hard laws in the field of international environmental governance, the response to environmental crimes has remained focused on non-criminal solutions. At the domestic level, laws addressing environmental crimes are traditionally seen as extension of public and administrative laws protecting the environment, rather than as a fully developed separate branch of criminal law. Various activities resulting in environmental degradation including the threat to global warming creates a sense of urgency, and also poses questions about the proper scope of international offences against the environment. Few international environmental instruments recognized environmental degradation as an offence such as illegal trade in wildlife, ozone depleting substances, dumping and illegal transport of various kinds of hazardous waste, illegal fishing, illegal logging and the associated trade in stolen timber. Recently there is a growing concern all over the world, regarding the fast growing criminal activities severely affecting the environment and the biodiversity. It poses a serious challenge to the international environmental governance which is already vulnerable mostly being soft law. The paper begins by looking at the conceptual limitations on the emergence of a mature international criminal law of the environment. It further discusses the issue by discussing the status of international environmental crime based on secondary data resource, and concludes by describing the future of the development of international criminal law to protect the environment.Item Redressal Mechanism of Human Rights Violation: International Perspective(The Law Brigade (Publishing) Group, 2016) Pathak, PuneetHuman rights are rights inherent to all human beings, irrespective of their nationality, gender, language, colour, religion, ethnicity or any other grounds. These rights are considered as inalienable and universal. Human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of declaration, covenants, customary international law, general principles and other sources of international law which lays down obligations of governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals or groups. The numerous human rights conventions under the framework of the United Nations and the regional systems in Africa, the Americas and Europe have led to the creation of a wide range of mechanisms for monitoring compliance with international human rights laws. The paper is intended to analyse the international mechanism for the violation of human rights under various treaty based bodies and charter based bodies working under United Nations.