Endowed with a coastline of 1,760 km, Sri Lanka has a vast potential for the development of marine fisheries, as a source of food, employment and foreign exchange. Yet, Sri Lanka's. fisheries remained a subsistence activity until the time it attained independence in 1948. The state, which only carried out a regulatory role until such time, assumed a more reformist role since the conclusion of t…
Considering the extensive violations of human rights in all parts of the world, the relativist position claiming that the ideals they incarnate are only relevant to the Western world seems doubtful. In any case, the Indian state has made commendable efforts in order to achieve the ideals of human rights in India and thus they have become part of the Indian reality. At the same time, the approac…
Conflicts over natural resources as a consequence of legal pluralism in post Independence Asian states are rampant. The penetration of the market economy into rural areas, backed by statutory law, has marginalized the life of rural people and has caused alarming resource degradation. As a response to the imposition of state laws, homogeneous models of resource management and centralized decisio…