Mediation at Workplace

The Gibbons review heard evidence that early mediation or conciliation in the workplace is the key to resolving disputes before irretrievable breakdown in relations occurs.The issue is how far it may be possible to place more weight on such “alternative dispute resolution” mechanisms so as to reduce the volume of claims reaching employment tribunals and [...]

Unfair Dismissal

 
A dismissal may be fair or unfair depending on the circumstances of the dismissal.
You need to work through the following four steps to identify whether you can make a claim for unfair dismissal:-
Step one: who cannot claim unfair dismissal
There are some employees who can never claim unfair dismissal. They [...]

Peoples’ SAARC Declaration -2007

“People’summits”,since 2000 held annually parallel to the South Asian Association Regional Cooperation (SAARC)Summit aims to promote people to people dialogues,exchanges and linkages in South Asia to address Regional issues.
This joint civil society initiative provides a platform to act on a “people’s agenda” and helps civil society to engage with national governments and regional [...]

A Brief History of Human Rights

Societies have located the beginnings of human rights in religious documents. The Vedas, the Bible, the Qur’an and the Analects of Confucius are some of the oldest written sources which address questions of people’s duties, rights, and responsibilities. Some early reforms were reflected in the biblical books of Chronicles and Ezra, which state that [...]

Religious Pluralism

Religious Pluralism
Religious pluralists point out that nearly all religious texts are a combination of an assortment of human observations documented, for example, as historical narratives, poetry, and morality plays. Accordingly, a distinction exists between what may be claimed as literal in a religious text and what may be metaphorical. The text, therefore, is open [...]

Hinduism and New Ageism

Hinduism and New Ageism
Hinduism is a set of beliefs and traditions which have evolved over a vast period of time. There is no central organization like a Church to control its movements or progress. The word Hindu is derived from the river Sindhu, or Indus, primarily a geographical term that referred to India or to [...]

Buddhism

Buddhism
Many hold the view that Buddhism is a philosophy, but the Buddha did not preach mere philosophical or intellectual theories. The Dhamma (Buddha’s teachings) deals with reality and truths which Buddhists believe that they can verify by personal experience. Unlike a philosophy, this shows a path that leads to the elimination of all forms of [...]