Night flights face

Court's verdict on aircraft noise may amplify litigation

Amnesty report nails Internet service providers in China

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A subject: a human being

For the doc

Jones in Palestine

Companies mining energy transition minerals committed hundreds of human rights abuse cases: Report

The right of local communities to live in a healthy environment is jeopardised by the rush to mine for more transition minerals  

Democratic regression, human rights and SDGs

Governments, the private sector and civil society, all have to play their part to see to it that SDGs are implemented

Indigenous peoples globally being ‘criminalised’ for defending their rights

Physical violence as well as legal prosecution is used to label defenders as ‘criminals’ and the process is becoming widespread, says …

Taxing menstrual products is like taxing women for being women

Instead of being counted as ‘necessities’, sanitary napkins are counted as ‘luxury products’ in India

India witnesses one of the highest female infanticide incidents in the world: study

At least 117 million girls around the world demographically go “missing” due to sex-selective abortions

A search for a lost friend

Book>> Let’s Call Him Vasu: With The Maoists In Chhattisgarh • Shubhranshu Choudhary • Penguin Books • Rs 350

The 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …

Decoding Uttarakhand HC’s judgment on animal rights

The well-intentioned verdict throws up various legal and ecological questions

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Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

Trade controle is not fair instrument

Rights infringed

We must know

Mean inheritance

Scavengery continues to remain one of society's ills in spite of laws created to abolish it

Australia repents

Australia apologises to aborigines for the mistakes of the past

No screen presence

Shady deal

Land rights of Brazil's local people being usurped

Lake Manchar is dead

Pakistan's largest freshwater lake is drowned by effluents

Agricultural land rights for women

Also, share in joint family property; new bill passed