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Strengthening the Consumer
Protection Regime in the World
CUTS announces launch of the
project entitled 'Strengthening the Consumer
Protection Regime' (ConsumerRegimes). The term Consumer
Protection is a comprehensive term comprising
not only a set of regulations and legal
framework but also a commitment to protect
consumers against deprivation from the basic
needs of life, and ensuring a respectable
living.
The United Nations Guidelines
on Consumer Protection, 1985 stresses and
urges the role of governments to develop and
maintain a strong consumer protection policy.
Each government should set its own priorities
for the protection of consumers in accordance
with the economic, social and environmental
circumstances of the country and the needs of
its population, bearing in mind the costs and
benefits of proposed measures.
Governments all over the world
have been trying to build a strong legal and
regulatory framework to ensure consumer
interests’ and welfare. While some countries
already have a well developed consumer
protection regime in place, there are many
countries that are in process of evolving such
regime.
The report aims to compile and
conduct an analysis of The State of Consumers
Around the World by collecting Country
Chapters, a 10-12 pager essays on the Consumer
Protection Regime.
We have prepared a
template paper on India, which will serve as a
guide for pattern and format for other papers
to follow
Click Here>>.
The report will
serve as a platform:
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to identify the
prevailing gap between the ideal and actual
situation in the countries on individual
basis and attempt to fill in that gap by
following good practices of a well developed
Consumer Protection Regime;
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for comparative
analysis between developed, developing and
under-developed countries on their
approaches to Protection of Consumers; and
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for
strengthening the knowledge base of the
civil society organisations, governments,
intergovernmental organisations and other
stakeholders by providing a ready reckoner
in the form of a comprehensive report
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