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International Health Regulation

 Do we have any international health rules and regulation to handle worldwide health issue or problem??? The answer is yes. IHR is a kind of legally binding international treaty or agreement entered into by WHO an UN leading agency and other states. The International Health Regulations (IHRs) prepared and issued by WHO for the protection of an individual’s health and to regulate global health system in the world. The main object of issuing IHRs is to control, safeguard or stop or prevent spread of various diseases worldwide or cross border country and to restrict public health risk. Another object of IHRs is to evade needless intrusion with global traffic and trade".  All worldwide health matters are coordinated by WHO since 198 within the system of the United Nations. WHO is also responsible to shape the provisions of health matters across the globe by way of issuing IHRs. International Health Regulations (IHRs) were earlier known as the International Sanitary Regula...

Work from Home- Need of a Law

  Law does not grow in vacuum. It needs its roots deep seated into the contemporary wishes and needs of the society. Sometimes law takes the lead and society is left behind. Sometimes society moves faster than the law. Recently, corona virus and its variants have changed the working landscape and economy of not only India but also around the globe. Due to this pandemic, the needs of the society have changed but the law has not kept the pace with the changing needs of the society. Virus has compelled the people to stay at home, especially in view of lockdowns imposed by the governments. Keeping distance from each other was another chief reason for staying at home. To save the employee from corona pandemic, companies had adopted work from home or hybrid mode in 2020 as a temporary measure, but now it has become a new model of working. Covid-19 pandemic has made the concept of work from home popular, both in government and the private sectors. But there is no law governing work from h...