Human Rights

Known as Comfort Women, their lives were plagued by pain, shame and injustice which followed them even after the end of the Second World War. Most of the comfort women are dead and many are losing the evidence to the diminishing memory…
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On 5th August, the GOI revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution that conferred special status to J&K. Though Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of the erstwhile princely state of J&K signed the ‘Instrument of Accession’ with India,…
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Following its lapse in 2018, The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, (Anti-Trafficking Bill) is set to be deliberated upon by the Parliament yet again. In the meanwhile, what has surfaced is the…
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When Thubten Ngodrup set himself on fire in Delhi on April 27, 1998 and later succumbed to it calling for freedom of Tibet, it was registered as the first self-immolation protest for Tibetans in Exile. Since then, more than 160 Tibetans…
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The reading down of Section 377 in 2018 through Navtej Johar v. Union of India marked a watershed moment for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) communities across India. The prolonged legal battle ended after several…
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Two miners are reported to be killed in East Jaintia Hills’ Jalyiah village even as 15 miners continue to be trapped in an illegal rat hole mine in Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills district in Meghalaya since December 13, 2018. Recall…
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“Why not disabled citizens?” asks Praveen Kumar G, amused, when asked why he chose to write the phrase ‘disabled citizen’ in the Disability Tracker Report brought out by development organisation VSO. The ‘SDGs’ Disability Tracker-…
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In light of increasing land investments in Asia and intensifying conflicts over scarce resources, civil society organisations (CSOs) working with rural communities, national human rights institutions and inter-governmental organisations…
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Recently, a Right to Information (RTI) intervention disclosed that in 2012-18, on an average, more than 10 Indian workers died in Gulf countries every day. It was consequently estimated that for every USD 1 Billion remitted, 117 deaths…
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