As the year 2017 sets to bid adieu, India finds itself in an awkward position with the annual statistics of 12 journalists either murdered or killed in suspicious situations.Protests in
The international recognition of caste-based discrimination as a form of racial discrimination may have some tangible effect on the rights of the Scheduled Castes in India. Dalits protesting discrimination against the community in
In the wake of the massive outflow of Rohingya refugees sparked by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, India and Myanmar on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the
February 19, 2016 was an unusual day in the world history of torture when Ashwani Kumar, a senior advocate and former Union minister of law, filed a petition before the
The latest edition of India Legal show discussed the present scenario pertaining to human rights of army personnel as well as of paramilitary forces in India. The panellists on the
Police have arrested a man for his alleged involvement in international trafficking of women. According to Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Gyalzen Sherpa, 38, of Sindhupalchowk district and currently residing in
Earlier this year, a Muslim woman from Meerut, Amreen Begum, uttered the words ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’ after her husband abandoned her and her two small children. She knew that he
The Forum for Protection of Journalists (FFPJ) on Tuesday staged a protest at the Press Club of India in the national capital demanding a CBI probe into the murder of
The study found that journalists, land rights activists and advocates for the rights of ethnic and religious minorities faced the highest risk in the country Human rights activists around the
Ahead of filing a petition in the Supreme Court, the Punjab Advocacy and Documentation Project (PADP) on Saturday released a report after a “seven-year investigation into mass killings and disappearances
