Human Rights

Most Of India’s Laws On Women Still Archaic, Say Agnes, Nundy

Speaking at the Nandini Satpathy Birth Anniversary Celebration at Soochana Bhawan here Thursday, eminent women’s rights activist Flavia Agnes and renowned Supreme Court ...

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The Waste-Side Story

An evening titled ‘Waste Narratives’ was recently held at the India Habitat Centre to mark the inclusion of waste pickers and informal waste dealers in the newly r...

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The Rights Of The Terminally Ill

The draft Bill fails to protect the constitutional rights of patients who wish to have their decisions about medical treatment respected. Euthanasia has always been fraught wi...

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Culture Of Silence Around Disability Influences Bad Policy

Disability in India has long been misunderstood and persons with disability in India for decades now have lived on the fringes of society – excluded, marginalised and di...

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Dispatches: Five of the Worst Places for Children

In some countries already devastated by war, the situation for children is only getting worse. A new UN report makes for grim reading, with one shattering statistic after anot...

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Global Profits, And Peril, From Child Labor

Governments Should Impose Mandatory RestrictionsGovernments should better regulate businesses to prevent child labor in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

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Protecting Those Who Work To Defend The Environment Is A Human Rights Issue

The enjoyment of a vast range of human rights, including rights to life, health, food, water, and housing, depend on a healthy and sustainable environment. Today, on World Env...

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Petitions Highlight Staff, Fund Crunch Impeding Work Of Maharashtra Panels

KEY statutory commissions in Maharashtra, tasked with upholding the rights of children, women and clamping down on human rights violations are struggling to function in the fa...

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Internet Freedom: Why Access Is Becoming A Human Right

When most people think or speak about internet freedom, they are often concerned with the right, for example, to say what you want online without censorship and without being ...

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No Middle Ground: The Risks Of Being A Human Rights Defender In India

The middle ground for human rights work throughout India is eroding fast. Social activists, civil society leaders and “right to information” activists—who ha...

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BOLLYWOOD: ARYAN KHAN BREAKS BOLLYWOOD RULES

“I am in love with your wife (Maya)!” — a line from Kabhi Alvida Naa K...

October 15 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: AND THE LEGACY LIVES ON

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Ramu Aravindan, founder of a Documentation Centre an...

October 14 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: STORIES THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD

From intimate documentaries to visionary fiction, the WIFF 2025 Jury—comprising ac...

October 13 2025