Human Rights
Japan’s Comfort Women
Known as Comfort Women, their lives were plagued by pain, shame and injustice which followed them even after the end of… Read More
US Lawmakers’ Criticism Over Human Rights Violations in Kashmir
On 5th August, the GOI revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution that conferred special status to J&K. Though Maharaja… Read More
Anti-Trafficking Bill 2.0
Following its lapse in 2018, The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, (Anti-Trafficking Bill) is set to… Read More
China’s extreme repression breeds self-immolations of Tibetans: ICT President
When Thubten Ngodrup set himself on fire in Delhi on April 27, 1998 and later succumbed to it calling for… Read More
LGBTQ Persons And Access To Mental Healthcare
The reading down of Section 377 in 2018 through Navtej Johar v. Union of India marked a watershed moment for… Read More
Meghalaya’s rat-hole mining raises safety vs livelihood debate
Two miners are reported to be killed in East Jaintia Hills’ Jalyiah village even as 15 miners continue to be… Read More
People with Disabilities need to become agents of change: Praveen Kumar G
“Why not disabled citizens?” asks Praveen Kumar G, amused, when asked why he chose to write the phrase ‘disabled citizen’… Read More
Time to assert land rights as human rights
In light of increasing land investments in Asia and intensifying conflicts over scarce resources, civil society organisations (CSOs) working with… Read More
Gulf deaths of Indian workers needs scrutiny, urges RTI Activist
Recently, a Right to Information (RTI) intervention disclosed that in 2012-18, on an average, more than 10 Indian workers died… Read More