Human Rights Day 2015 - Human Rights In Childbirth As A Global Movement

In May 2012, the first ever Human Rights in Childbirth Conference took place at The Hague. The conference brought together lawyers, doctors, midwives, anthropolog...

Pamela Anderson Visits Kremlin To Lobby For Animal Protection

Actress Pamela Anderson on Monday urged Russia to step up the fight to protect rare animals as she met President Vladimir Putin’s powerful chief of staff at the Kreml...

Amitabh Bachchan To Be Approached To Spread Legal Awareness.

Bollywood actors have always associated themselves with social causes and now they might be seen on screen to promote legal awareness in the country with National Legal Ser...

India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...

Volkswagens 2016 Diesel Models Might Also Have Emissions Cheating Software

After a study on emissions discrepancies uncovered suspicious data on Volkswagen diesel vehicles, the EPA issued a notice of violation against the company in September. The...

A Personal Tribute To Smita

That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled...

The Right Way To Tackle Gender Inequality In The Legal Profession

In 1978, when I completed my Oxford law degree, we were told we would have to be patient, it could take 30 or 40 years before there was gender equality among the judiciary....

Rajasthan Revolution: In 30 Panchayats, More Girls Born Than Boys

Dolatpura Kotda, Rajasthan: Mali Devi, a 27-year-old daily wage labourer in Dolatpur Kotda, 35 kilometers north-east of Jaipur, was married at 13 as a part of a tradition c...

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damdest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we f...