THE PREVALENCE OF WITCHES A lot more than just legislation is needed to curb the frequent incidents of witch-hunting in Odisha, writes Anusua Mukherjee The infamous medieval treatise on witch-hunting, the Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer, 1486), speaks in the authoritative voice of… Continue Reading →
Mona Singh Surendranath says none of the professed aims of the death penalty can be met using the criminal justice system in place in India. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint National Law University’s Anup Surendranath on difficulties such as lack of information… Continue Reading →
Social Welfare V.V. Krishnan Dalits and Adivasis protest for, among other things, full allocation of funds for the SCSP and the TSP, in New Delhi in 2012. Two draft Bills on the Tribal Sub-Plan and the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan raise hopes… Continue Reading →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FST-003-2014 January 13, 2014 A Press Statement from Public Hearing on Sexual Violence organized by Women in Governance [WinG-India] , in Guwahati on January 8-9, 2014 forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Press statement… Continue Reading →
All India | Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Updated: January 03, 2014 Kolkata: Former Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly, indicted of sexual harassment, has quit the guest faculty of a prominent law college in Kolkata. However, he has so far not resigned as Chairman… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI: Pushpa Kapila Hingorani, the lady behind many movements;one of the first legal luminaries of India;a pioneer in the use of public interest litigation on behalf of women’s movements; an indefatigable and militant advocate for women’s rights,… Continue Reading →
DisabledRights Group (DRG) & NationalPlatform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) 27th December, 2013 PRESS STATEMENT On Speedy Enactment of Rights of Personswith Disabilities Bill The Disabled Rights Group (DRG) and the National Platform for the Rightsof the Disabled… Continue Reading →
December 13, 2013 19:00 IST The Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Bill, which faced immense opposition for over seven years, was passed in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha (lower… Continue Reading →
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)- Act and the Rules, 2013 have come into force with effect from December 09, 2013. Now it will be this law and not vishakha guidelines which will be operational… Continue Reading →
Sweta Dutta : Sun Dec 08 2013, Bhanwari, 55, is aware that the guidelines are in the news, as aware as she is about what these still lack. It took the December 16, 2012, Delhi gangrape for the recommendations to take… Continue Reading →
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