One of the earliest references to India’s so-called “third gender” can even be traced as far back as in chapters of the Kama Sutra, and yet it has taken decades (or centuries even!) of stigma and struggle for The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 to exist in its latest form.
Voicing concerns over alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and PoK, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein today appealed to both India and Pakistan to grant his team access to Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Making Wifi facility available to five villages in Nagpur has become a cause for concern for the state government, with each user found to be consuming average 15GB per month. So much so, the state is now mulling introducing some sort of financial model to make Wifi self-sustainable for these villages. With plans afoot to…
The United Nations (UN) has expanded the domain of human rights to cyber-space.
In a landmark resolution for the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet”, the UN has affirmed the right of all to use the internet without fear of surveillance or deprivation.
The Indian Supreme Court’s recent decision reiterating the importance of accountability for human rights violations by police and security forces, in particular where unnecessary or excessive force is alleged to have been used, is a welcome step and must be immediately implemented. In the case of EEVFAM v Union of India, petitioners alleged that 1,528…
The United Nations has passed a non-binding resolution condemning the disruption of Internet access as ahuman rights violation. Russia and China were among countries opposing the resolution, which reaffirms the stance of the UN Human Rights Council that “the same rights people have offline must also be protected online.” Saudi Arabia joined the two nations…
United States (US) Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday (June 01) said the issue of alleged human rights violations in India is on the agenda for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his trip to Washington next week.
HYDERABAD: V Koushik was the star of his batch at Chennai’s SRM University. He was among the first to bag a placement and finished his engineering course with top marks. A year on, he is still waiting for a joining date from L&T Infotech. “When I sat for the interview, I had no clue that…
New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice H L Dattu on Wednesday said the rights watchdog needed some teeth to enforce its orders on remedial measures in cases relating to violations. “NHRC is a toothless tiger. We painstakingly investigate human rights violation cases, sometimes in remote areas, with our limited resources. The evidence…
When any campaign finds it hard to bring about a conclusive answer to vexed issues, the people behind such a movement are overwhelmed by lethargy, especially if they are driven other than by moral urge. To many human rights activists in the Naga community, as it appears, yesterday’s campaign is a shibboleth today. However, the…