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Decriminalization of Homosexuality: Are the sufferings over?

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In a country like India, which has always criticized homosexuality for different reasons, a landmark judgment was passed by the Supreme Court on September 06, 2018. Now the law has given the right of consensual sex between any two adults; thereby decriminalizing the sex between homosexuals. This is surely a great moment for the country and for all of its citizens, but is it enough? Is giving legality to sex between consenting homosexuals enough for making the country a livable place for LGBTQ? Is the fight over? The answer is NO. In our society, we have some weird and illogical assumptions to live a life. When we see a boy and a girl together on a road, we barely take time to consider them as a couple, keeping aside the fact that they can be siblings, cousins, or just friends; but we don’t do so when we see two same gender people together; but if same gender people are in a relationship we frown our eyes to them. De facto, when it comes to a relationship, the society always see a

Role of Ethics in Disaster Management

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Abstract Environmental ethics, ethical questions raised by the human relationship with the non-human environment, ethical divergences and dilemmas between the pursuance of developmental goals and ethical values – all these form the crux of the debate over the role of ethics in Disaster Management. In the context of preventing disasters, the decisions taken on the basis of ethics may have significant and lasting impacts on the communities. But the vested motives of the capitalists overshadow the community interests and they often end up choosing between the undesirable alternatives.  Introduction What are ethics? Ethics is a set of moral philosophy that deals with the concept of right or wrong. Now what is right or not can substantially be different for everyone and this is why most of the times ethical dilemmas occur. But still, by having a perspective of the larger good of the nation, there are some generalized phenomena of right and wrong. What is disaster manag