Will the State recognise women workers’ right to bleed with dignity

The Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs has sought feedback from stakeholders on the draft National Action Plan on Business & Human Rights by …

Baigas get home

The vulnerable tribe in Madhya Pradesh is the first to get habitat rights in India. It is a landmark in the forests rights movement

Eviction threat

Earth quake

Mobilisation immobilised

Uprooted for the sake of compensatory afforestation

To compensate for forest land diversion for Parsa coal block, Chhattisgarh government identifies 16 villages without approval from gram sabhas

Tribals play hardball on land rights

Dissatisfied with RTI answers on traditional land rights, tribals of Thane file appeals

Odisha on FRA claims: No time to collect evidence, no hearing, just rejection

The state has rejected 10,000 claims

21 villages inside Simlipal Tiger Reserve granted community forest rights

Exercising the rights however, might prove to be a challenge

Would cats bell themselves? The wait for the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights

The recently concluded UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights (March 17-19) evoked a lot of enthusiasm from diverse stakeholders. Would …

Chhattisgarh, MP elections: Forest rights emerge as major issue

Activists send people’s manifesto to political parties asking them to empower the tribals by recognising their rights over land and forest …

Polavaram dam project has opened floodgates of corruption: activists

Activists are calling for setting up of a multi-member judicial commission to do a comprehensive enquiry into the process of land acquisition, …

Simply Put: The poor and Pegasus

Simply Put: Forest dwellers in India

Simply put: Sisters in arms

Simply put: Dalit women marginalised from mainstream politics, economy

Pellet guns proving lethal for civilians in Kashmir

Using pellet guns on unarmed civilians is considered a transgression of human rights

Snooping on inmates

Recorders>>Prisons ÔÇó Georgia

Beautiful survivors

Beauty Pageant>> Holocaust • Israel

UN post flayed

Let it be martyrdom, not murder

Humane Courts

Two hoots for USA

The US "punishes" the UN for being voted out of two UN bodies

Not taking a stand

Documentary on Iraq's infamous prison