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    docpost - legal rights classification

    DOCPOST - LEGAL RIGHTS

    CED sends you the most important clippings and articles on all rights based issues, neatly classified, and coded. All you have to do is file the individual clippings under the classification number provided. Below is the classification on Human Rights, which indicates the kind of issues that will be covered.

    In each of the topic below we cover

    1. The Law, Theory, perspectives, philosophy etc 
    2. Policy, Programmes, Programmes, Official actions
    3. Situation, general situation, statistics, benchmarks, indicators of levels
    4. Events, trends, major cases, gross violations, reactions etc
    5. Interest groups working against and their logic, ideology, action
    6. Solutions, Alternatives, Positivew work done by groups, individuals, governments, NGOs, Moveements etc.

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    RA00  HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE      
    RA10  UN Declarations, Covenants, Five basic principles
    RA11  International, UN Human Rights Action, Amnesty, Humans Rights WATCH
    RA12  International Politics of Human Rights, ( Suspect roles of some orgns.)
    RA20  Fundamental Rights in Indian Constitution
    RA21  Expansion of Right to Life: to include livelihood, development etc
    RA22  Right to Housing
    RA30  RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT, NGO Role/ functions




    RB00  HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA             
    RB10 Human Rights Institutions in India
    RB11 Human Rights Cases, Judiciary's Interpretation
    RB12 International Politics of Human Rights
    RB20 Judicial System and Legal Reforms
    RB21 Alternative Dispute Mechanism, Lok Adalats
    RB22 Traditional Systems, Caste panchayats
    RB30 Legal Aid
    RB31 Public Interest Litigation
    RB32 Legal Aid Organisations/Legal Advocacy Organisations
    RB33 Civil Liberties Organizations  




    RC00 CIVIL LIBERTIES & POLITICAL RIGHTS     
    RC01  Right of Freedom of Speech & Expression
    RC02  Right to protest, Assembly
    RC03  Right to Information
    RC04  Right to Political Participation, Local Governments, Panchayats, Gram Sabha
    RC09  Right to Political self-determination/autonomyCivil Liberties in other countries
    RC10  Right to Legal Defence, procedures of search, arrest, (right to liberty)
    RC20  Role of Media
    RC40  Right to Privacy
    RC50, RC60  Right to Self Autonomy/Self-determination personal/community level
    RC61  Right To Food
    RC70  Rights to refugee ( refugees)
    RC80  Governance, Accountability and Corruption

     


    RD00  STATE POWER & RIGHTS 
    RD01 Abuse of State Machinery for political purposes ( telephone tapping)
    RD02 Black Laws, PD laws, POTA, UAPA etc
    RD10 Police, Police Atrocities/Excesses of Army and security Forces
    RD11 Use of Police in agitations, Encounters
    RD12 Mal treatment by Police of vulnerable groups
    RD20 Prisoners Rights  
    RD21 Torture in prisons, custodyPOW Rights
    RD22 Violence against women in custody



    RE00 ECONOMIC RIGHTS   
    RE10 Right to Work, Employment  
    RE11 Labour Rights. Unionise, Collective Bargaining, Strike
    RE15 Equal Wages, Minimum Wages, Free Labour (Bonded Labour)
    RE20 Land Rights ( Land Reforms, Land to the Tiller)
    RE30 CONSUMER RIGHTS
    RE31 Consumer Courts, Tribunals, Arbitration  
    RE40 Community/Group Rights:   
    RE50 Common Lands, Property temple lands, Grazing Lands, Forests, Water Bodies
    RE55 Right to Environment, Pollution as violation of rights
    Right to Development –
    RE60 Right to Safety, Right to Health / Euthanasia                                                                   
    RE61 Globalisation / Privatisation as violation of rights
    RE65  Right to free movement of Labour 
    RE70 Intellectual; Property Rights, Patents





    RF00  SOCIAL RIGHTS   
    RF10 GENDER , Patriarchy, CEDAW
    RF20 Women’s Rights & Religion, tradition etc 
    RF30 Women’s Right to Inheritance, Property etc
    RF40 Reproductive Rights
    RF50 Domestic Violence, Social violence against Women
    RF60 Rights of Sexual Minorities
    RF70 Sexuality Rights Discrimination of Women at the Workplace, Sexual Harassment
    RF90 Womens' Rights Organisations, Actions/Issues by them 



    RG00  CHILD RIGHTS, UN Conventions                                                                 
    RG10 Right to Childhood, Play,Right to Education 
    RG20 Child Labour 



    RH00  RIGHTS OF SUPPRESSED COMMUNITIES  
    RH10 Atrocities against SCs, Caste practices
    RH20 Dalit Rights
    RH21 Positive Discrimination, Reservations
    RH30 Anti-Mandal, backlash,Caste  Violence, Caste Armies  
    RH40 Stereo typing, targeting one community Rights of Indigenous,Tribal/ normadic  Communities
    RH41 Displacement