Result: 1st National Article Writing Competition on Human Rights

Amity Law School Gurugram is pleased to announce the result of the 1st National Article Writing Competition on Human Rights 2020 organised in collaboration with the Udhvik Asha Welfare Foundation, Indian Lawyers Association, and Legal Bites. We sincerely thank all the participants for their stupendous efforts in submitting the articles.

Rankings of the Top Ten Participants are as follows,

Rank 1

• Name of Participant – Sejalsri Mukkavilli
  
• Name of Institution – Alliance School of Law
  
• Title of the Article – The Problems With The Legal Characterization Of Sex: A Critique of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019

Rank 2

• Team – Indraneel Chakraborty and Atishya Ghosh
  
• Name of Institution – School of Law, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies
  
• Title of the Article – Reflections on the Constitutionality of our Constitution: A Take on Reservation vis-a-vis Human Rights

Rank 3

• Name of Participant – Kshitij Srivastava
  
• Name of Institution – D.I.R.D, GGSIPU
• Title of the Article – An ‘ELSI APPROACH’ to Human Rights in India

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Rank 4

• Name of Participant – Akshay Kaushal
  
• Name of Institution – Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), Gurgaon
  

Rank 5

• Team – Muskan Pathak and Tanya Sharma
  
• Name of Institution – Panjab University

Rank 6

• Team – Urvashi Satya and Aastha Tyagi
  
• Name of Institution – Kurushetra University

Rank 7

• Name of Participant – Kajal Amitha
  
• Name of Institution – Banaras Hindu University

Rank 8

• Name of Participant – Aruna Kumari
  
• Name of Institution – University of Delhi

Rank 9

• Team – Gyaneswar Sai and Chaitanya Tottadi
  
• Name of Institution – Andhra University

Rank 10

• Name of Participant – Abhinav Ashok
  
• Name of Institution – Netaji Subhas University of Technology
  

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Awards

• First Prize – Certificate of Excellence + Cash Prize of ₹ 5,000 + Publication of Article on Legal Bites
• Second Prize – Certificate of Excellence + Cash Prize of ₹ 3,000 + Publication of Article on Legal Bites
• Third Prize – Certificate of Excellence + Cash Prize of ₹ 2,000 + Publication of Article on Legal Bites

Note

1. Certificate of Merit would be awarded to the top ten participants excluding the top three, i.e. Rank 4th to 10th.
2. Shortlisted submissions will be published on Legal Bites.
3. All the participants who have submitted the article would get a Certificate of Participation.
4. Awards will be sent after two weeks from the result declaration.
5. E-Certificates will be issued within a week.
6. Hard print certificates(if opted) will be dispatched once the situation gets in control.

Contact

For any further details or queries, please write to alshmoot2016@gmail.com.

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1. United Nations Human Rights Council: Overview and Function
2. Legal Bites Academy