All schools must have separate toilets for girls and boys

Apex court says toilets, drinking water facilities are integral to RTE Act; pulls up Andhra Pradesh government for not ensuring these facilities in its schools The Supreme ...

Pete Bethune Applauds International Court Verdict On Japanese Whaling

The International Court of Justice in The Hague today found in favor of Australia and New Zealand in the court case against Japan’s so-called Research Whaling in Anta...

2014 – Technology Wars

31^st December 2012 would have been the day when many of the technological heavyweights would’ve made some resolutions for the year 2013. As 2013 has barely...

Press Release : Gay Rights are Human Rights

FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival in the city sparks off discussions on LGBT rights

The recently concluded FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film F...

Press Release : Gay Rights are Human Rights

FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival in the city sparks off discussions on LGBT rights

The recently concluded FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film F...

Bollywood stars Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Anushka Sharma express disappointment on Twitter over Supreme Court verdict on homosexuality

Bollywood celebrites on Wednesday voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court verdict that criminalised homosexuality, calling it “violative of basic human rights". ...

Gay sex is a criminal offence, rules Supreme Court

In a blow to gay rights activists, the Supreme Courton Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with up...

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

Annual Report: India 2013

Republic of India

Head of state Pranab Kumar Mukherjee(replaced Pratibha Patil)

Head of government Manmohan Singh

Torture and other ill-treatment, e...