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Child Rights Panels Go Half Empty

Half the posts in India's state child right commissions are vacant and only a fourth of these panels are fully formed, data the government has placed in the Supreme Court s...

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Human Rights

Jharkhand’s Children Deprived Of Mid-Day Meal Despite Supreme Court Order, Say Activists

Despite the Supreme Court order that children should get nutritious food in the drought-affected areas, Jharkhand’s schoolchildren are missing on their share of mid-d...

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Human Rights

Daughter-in-law Be Treated As Family Member, Not Housemaid: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has...

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Human Rights

The Brutal Ways In Which Some Clan Councils In South Asia Punish Women

In India and other parts of South Asia, clan councils have long worked outside the legal system as enforcers of centuries-old social codes and traditions. Experts say these...

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Environment

Brutal Heat Wave In India Puts 330 Million To Risk

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks. The majority of the deaths have been in the southern states...

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Human Rights

Supreme Court Questions Centre Over Human Rights Panel In Delhi

The Supreme Court today rejected the Centre's submission that the national capital does not need a State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) as it was a union territory (UT), as...

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Gender

Inside Pakistan's Gender-Fluid Hijra Community

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, tr...

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Interest Of Child Comes First: SC

Noting that the interests should be kept “first and foremost” during adoption, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and the States to frame regulatio...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Human Rights

Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.
Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said &...

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