Shaping the Future – Strategies for Change
In 2015, the world committed itself in the Sustainable Development Goals to ensuring universal access to sexual
India
Reconceptualising ‘Reputation’ post #MeToo
In October 2018, India’s #MeToo wave witnessed an explosion of online testimonies against sexual predators, by ...
Mid-Day Meals and the Pandemic: A Human Rights Concern
The ongoing pandemic has revealed glaring inequalities in our society like never before. In India, for instance, ...
A tale of legal violence and systematic oppression: Indian Supreme Court orders the deportation of Rohingyas
On 8 April 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India refused to grant relief in a petition ...
Creation of a Genetic Bank in India: Unconstitutional and Threat to Human Rights
The DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill seeks to facilitate the application of DNA-based forensic ...
The Supreme Court of India Takes Reasonable Accommodation Seriously
On 11 February 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India rendered a significant judgment in the case ...
Installing Reasonable Accommodation as part of Equality in India
In an earlier post on this blog, I had demonstrated the exclusionary effect of an ableist interpretation of law. I ...
India’s Feeble Frontline Defence against Incarceration
An important constitutional safeguard against arbitrary incarceration is the fundamental right of an arrested ...
Indian Supreme Court Upholds Reasonable Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities
On February 11, 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India in Vikash Kumar v. Union Public Service ...
India’s sexual harassment law wouldn’t be effective unless we fix the issue of ‘Limitation’
Recently, the High Court of Delhi (India) refused to entertain a challenge to the dismissal of a Judicial Officer, ...
Eviction of forest-dwellers in Jammu and Kashmir: Procedural haemorrhage and rights violation
The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Committee on Forest Encroachments has recently published a list of forestland ...
Use of Facial Recognition Technology in India: A Function Creep Breaching Privacy
Criminal investigation has become convenient for the law enforcement agencies after the advent of "Facial ...
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