Human Rights

December 2007

Clippings and Articles for
Organisations working on
Human Rights and Legal Advocacy

sl.no.	Title	Source and Date	Author

Alternative Dispute Mechanism, Lok Adalats
1	'Lok Adalats Cannot Be A Solution'	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Abid Shah
2	Crippling Lok Adalats	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Girish Patel
3	Access To Justice And Rights Of Needy	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Warren W Smith

Atrocities against SCs, Caste practices, Untouchability
1	Bitter memories	Frontline Magazine, 07 Dec 2007	T.K. Rajalakshmi
2	Life Inside A Black Hole	Tehelka Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	S Anand

Caste Violence
1	Christain delegation meets PM	The Asian Age, Mumbai, 31 Dec 2007	Rabindra Nath Choudhury & Akshaya Kumar Sahu
2	Christain delegation meets PM	The Asian Age, Mumbai, 31 Dec 2007
3	Everybody loves a victim	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11 Dec 2007	Neelesh Misra

Child Labour
1	Scrap the Child Labour Act of 1986	The Hindu, Chennai, 23 Dec 2007	Ashok Khandelwal
2	Childhoods lost on cotton	DNA, Mumbai, 03 Dec 2007
3	Everybody loves a victim	Civil Society Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Rina Mukherji
4	Innocence on SALE	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Geetha Devarajan

Consumer Rights
1	Raw deal for consumers	The Times of India, Mumbai, 26 Dec 2007	Abhinav Garg and Deeksha Chopra
2	Consumer is king	Sahara Time Magazine, 23 Dec 2007	Soni Sinha

Displacement
1	Supreme Court ruling on Orissa mining case could set precedent	MINT, Mumbai, 26 Dec 2007	Malathi Nayak
2	A Nandigram brews near Mumbai	The Telegraph, Calcutta, 31 Dec 2007	Samyabrata Ray Goswami
3	Supa dam displaced lease out lands to paper mill	Down To Earth Magazine, 31 Dec 2007	Kirtiman Awasthi
4	Cos kept out of R&R, land acquisition Bills	The Business Standard, Mumbai, 07 Dec 2007
5	Bargaining Lives	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Saurabh Bhatarcharjee Usha Ramanathan

Domestic Violence Act
1	Domestic violence:only male punishable	The Times of India, Mumbai, 17 Dec 2007
2	City court catches woman in the Act	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11 Dec 2007	Naziya Alvi
3	The rumpus over the dowry death law	The Telegraph, Calcutta, 26 Dec 2007	Shabina Akhtar

Rape
1	Rape and Prejudice	The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 16 Dec 2007	G Manjusainath
2	Show no leniency to rapists, directs SC	The Times of India, Mumbai, 05 Dec 2007	Dhananjay Mahapatra

Sex workers
1	Sex Work Is No Crime	The Times of India, Mumbai, 12 Dec 2007	Bishaka Datta and Siddharth Dube
2	Legalising prostitution	The Hindu, Chennai, 02 Dec 2007	George Paul

Women Prisoners
1	'Come back in a week'	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 01 Dec 2007	Pallavi Polanki

Corruption
1	No mercy for embezzlers; they deserve sacking: SC	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 10 Dec 2007	Bhadra Sinha
2	Darkness visible	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 04 Dec 2007

Human Rights
1	Debate that will never die	Frontline Magazine, 21 Dec 2007	R.K. Raghavan

Capital Punishment
1	The U.N. vote on the death penalty	The Hindu, Chennai, 21 Dec 2007	Louise Arbour
2	Don't hang 'em	The Times of India, Mumbai, 07 Dec 2007	Bikram Jeet Batra

Human Rights
1	“Keeping detainees in nude is against fundamental rights”	The Hindu, Chennai, 10 Dec 2007	K.T. Sangameswaran
2	The dignity of the individual	MINT, Mumbai, 17 Dec 2007	Christopher Lingle
3	Still in human blights	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 10 Dec 2007

Judicial System
1	Activism-wary judges wash hands of case	The Telegraph, Calcutta, 12 Dec 2007	Samanwaya Rautray
2	Separate And Unequal	The Times of India, Mumbai, 08 Dec 2007	Katna Kapur
3	Is Judiciary Biased Against The Poor?	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Balkrishnan Rajagopal
4	No Need For Alarm	The Times of India, Mumbai, 19 Dec 2007	J S Verma
5	Judiciary introspects	The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 16 Dec 2007	Pratap Patnaik

Rights of the Migrants
1	Malaysia is silencing minorities, says HRW	The Asian Age, Mumbai, 19 Dec 2007

Unorganised Workers
1	The Unorganised Sector Workers' Social Security Bill, 2007	Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Dec 2007

Land Rights
1	“Landlessness true index of poverty”	The Hindu, Chennai, 09 Dec 2007
2	The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth?	Tehelka Magazine 08 Dec 2007	K A Shaji
3	In Search of a Land Policy	Frontier Magazine, 18 Nov 2007	Bharat Dogra

Alternative Dispute Mechanism, Lok Adalats
1	Poverty, Law and Legal Aid - An International Perspective - I	Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Kotagiri Srinivasa Rao

Personal Laws
1	Nothing un-Islamic about it	Sahara Time Magazine, 16 Dec 2007	Abdul Hafiz Gandhi
2	Cracking the code	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 14 Dec 2007	Ramachandra Guha
3	Triple talaq is untenable	The Times Of India, Mumbai, 01 Dec 2007	Tahir Mahmood

Police Atrocities
1	Laws without justice in the name of security	The Hindu, Chennai, 17 Dec 2007	Mukul Sharma

Prisoners' Rights
1	Innocence in shackles	India Today Magazine, 24 Dec 2007	Amitabh Srivastava
2	The Rights of Prisoners	Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Dec 2007

Public Interest Litigation
1	Weed out pretender PILs, SC tells high courts	The Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 Dec 2007
2	PIL And Indian Courts	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Sandra Fredman
3	Public Interest Litigation	Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Dec 2007
4	'Convert PIL into acriminal writ'	DNA, Mumbai, 14 Dec 2007	Mayura Janwalkar

Human Rights
1	Indian farmers need human rights	The Hindu, Chennai, 07 Dec 2007	C. Raj Kumar

Right to Water
1	Rs 1,000 Crore? A River Is Yours	Outlook Magazine, 17 Dec 2007	Saikat Dutta

Right to Freedom of Speech
1	Competitive intolerance	The Hindu, Chennai, 05 Dec 2007

Bhopal Gas Disaster
1	Bhopal’s deformed children	Sahara Time Magazine, 02 Dec 2007	Sanjay Sharma

Right to Information
1	Chech the Babus	The Times of India, Mumbai, 10 Dec 2007
2	The Secret Factor	Combat Law Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Jai Singh
3	CIC Autonomy Upheld	Transparency Review Newsletter, 01 Jan 2007

Rural Employment
1	Rural job scheme: many positives, a few concerns	The Hindu, Chennai, 30 Dec 2007
2	New guidelines on rural employment guarantee programme raise concern	The Hindu, Chennai, 14 Dec 2007	R.K. Radhakrishnan
3	SC/STs get little in rural scheme	The Business Standard, Mumbai, 01 Dec 2007	Prasad Nichenametla

Tribal’s Rights
1	Activists get ahead with new forest law	Civil Society Magazine, 01 Dec 2007	Rakesh Agrawal
2	Now, CPM Grabs Land In Kerala	Tehelka Magazine, 22 Dec 2007	K A Shaji
3	Gujjar demand not valid: report	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 19 Dec 2007	K.S. Tomar

Others
1	Behind the Adivasi unrest in Assam	The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 03 Dec 2007	M.S. Prabhakara
2	Not by Haj subsidies alone	Frontline Magazine, 21 Dec 2007	Praful Bidwai
3	Media and the Left	Frontline Magazine, 21 Dec 2007	Jayati Ghosh

Police Atrocities
1	Five myths about torture and interrogation	The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 19 Dec 2007	Darius Rejali
2	HC order on custodial deaths	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 22 Dec 2007	Harish V Nair

Others
1	Empowerment must be universalised	The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11 Dec 2007	Louise Arbour

Human Rights
1	Human rights: The US suffers from selective amnesia	The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 22 Dec 2007	John Hall

Personal Law
1	Tie the knot — and note the tie	The Telegraph, Calcutta, 19 Dec 2007	Shabina Akhtar

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