Zero Draft

As India inches closer to its National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights (BHR), civil society voices and human rights organizations are concerned about its impact. The zero draft of the NAP was released by the Ministry of…
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Baghjan oil field, operating since 2003 in Tinsukia District of Assam, has a total of 22 producing wells – 18 crude wells and four gas wells. On 27 May, when the engineers were trying to extract oil from 3729 meters deep, a blowout…
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Almost a month after the incident of Vishakapatnam gas leak, an incident of boiler blast occurred on 3 June in an agrochemical factory at Dahej in Bharuch district in Gujarat. As per the reports around 10 workers and at least 72 people have…
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The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights (UNGP) envisages Protect–Respect–Remedy framework locating the state’s role primarily in the first pillar. However, it is also the role of the State to ensure that all three pillars…
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The protection of human rights has been an intrinsic part of Indian tradition. As the largest democracy in the world, this can also be recognised in our Constitution in the form of Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles. India’s…
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