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      February 2008
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    Human Rights  and Legal Advocacy


    sl.no.
    Title Source and Date Author

    Age of Marriage
    1
    Age of man The Telegraph, Calcutta, 08 Feb 2008

    Caste Violence
    1 Bilkis Bano's Brave Fight Tehelka Magazine, 02 Feb 2008 S. Anand
    2 Christmas mourning Communalism Combat Magazine, 01 Jan 2008

    Child Rights
    1
    11-year-old's death forced law panel move The Times of India, Mumbai, 07 Feb 2008
    2 High incidence of child marriage in some states The Asian Age, Mumbai, 02 Feb 2008
    3
    High Court confirms life term for couple guilty of infanticide The Hindu, Chennai, 06 Feb 2008

    Civil Liberties in other countries
    1
    Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan fails in basics,
    The Business Standard, Mumbai, 16 Feb 2008 Prasad Nichenametla,

    Displacement
    1
    Verdict on Singur Frontline Magazine, 15 Feb 2008 Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
    2
    SC clears land acquisition air The Telegraph Calcutta, 09 Feb 2008

    Domestic Violence
    1
    Hitting home: violence against women The Hindu, Chennai, 26 Feb 2008 Geeta Padmanabhan
    2
    24% women face violence at home: Survey The Times of India, Mumbai, 04 Feb 2008 Nitin Yeshwantrao
    3 'Harassed' husbands now take to the streets DNA, Mumbai, 21 Jan 2008 Bhargavi Kerur
    4 Should red lights be legal? UPA divided The Asian Age, Mumbai, 28 Feb 2008 Rashme Sehgal

    Labour Rights
    1

    Subterranean global networks

    The Hindu, Chennai, 29 Feb 2008 Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar
    2
    Fishing industry stands in troubled waters MINT, Mumbai, 06 Feb 2008 Ajayan
    3
    Weaving a disaster? The Business Standard, Mumbai, 17 Feb 2008 Sreelatha Menon
    4
    Women on night duty: case reopened The Hindu, Chennai, 06 Feb 2008 J. Venkatesan
    5
    Panel moots National Labour Code The Business Standard, Mumbai, 01 Feb 2008
    6
    Cross currents in labour decisions The Business Standard, Mumbai, 06 Feb 2008 M J Antony
    7
    Protection for Gulf workers The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 04 Feb 2008 Gopal Sutar
    8
    Notes from a Bihar Village The Telegraph, Calcutta, 24 Feb 2008 Debashis Bhattacharyya
    9
    No one's an outsider here The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11 Feb 2008 Pankaj Vohra
    10
    Headed The Wrong Way The Times of India, Mumbai, 06 Feb 2008 Dipankar Gupta
    11
    A Melting Pot on the Boil
    2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    The Times of India, Mumbai, 05 Feb 2008

    Human Rights
    1 India refuses to help Tibetan genocide probe The Asian Age, Mumbai, 17 Feb 2008 Ramesh Ramachandran
    2 Ground beneath their feet The Telegraph, Calcutta, 05 Feb 2008 Bhaswati Chakravorty
    3
    Operationalising the "responsibility
    to protect"
    The Hindu, Chennai, 15 Feb 2008 Ramesh Thakur

    Judicial System
    1
    SC does balancing act The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 27 Feb 2008 Satya Prakash
    2
    Let's have equal laws The Times of India, Mumbai, 13 Feb 2008 Rishabh Bhandari
    3
    Prisoners better talk The Telegraph, Calcutta, 13 Feb 2008 Dola Mitra
    4
    Speaker expresses surprise over CJI’s reported stand on hearing Teesta Setalvad The Hindu, Chennai, 25 Feb 2008 Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
    5
    SC to get more judges, but will it help? The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 22 Feb 2008 Aloke Tikku and Satya Prakash
    6
    Was CJI rap on Teesta too harsh The Times of India, Mumbai, 22 Feb 2007 Manoj Mitta
    7
    Reforming the legal profession: some ideas The Hindu, Chennai, 20 Feb 2008 N.R. Madhava Menon
    8
    The need for judicial activism The Asian Age, Mumbai, 09 Feb 2008 Jagmohan
    9
    Immune system The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 05 Feb 2008 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

    Local Governments, Panchayat, Gram Sabha,
    1 Panchayat hands tied: Report The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 25 Feb 2008 Soumyajit Pattnaik
    2
    Missing panchayat Frontline Magazine, 01 Feb 2008 S. Viswanathan

    Personal Laws
    1 Remarriage: SC relief to widows The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 20 Feb 2008
    2
    Why the law protects women The Times of India, Mumbai, 20 Feb 2008
    3
    'Muslim girls can nullify marriage The Hindustan Times of India, Mumbai, 18 Feb 2008
    4
    Towards equality: Land rights can empower Women The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 07 Feb 2008 Anita Ratnam

    PIL
    1
    The Most Useful Litigations The Times of India, Mumbai, 24 Feb 2008 Ketan Tanna and Sharmila Ganesan
    2
    Legal aid at your doorstep Sahara Time Magazine, 17 Feb 2008
    3
    A flop show? Sahara Time Magazine, 17 Feb 2008 Daljit Ami

    Patient's Rights
    1
    Legalise kidney sales The Business Standard, Mumbai, 03 Feb 2008 Arvind Kala
    2
    Going by transplantation law means waiting for death The Times of India, Mumbai, 01 Feb 2008 Abantika Ghosh

    Right to Freedom of Speech  & Expression
    1 Stand And Deliver The Times of India, Mumbai, 19 Feb 2008 Sumit Ganguly
    2
    Banished within & without The Times of India, Mumbai, 10 Feb 2008 Taslima Nasreen
    3
    Venom’s voice Communalism Combat Magazine, 01 Feb 2008 Teesta Setalvad
    4
    Muffled and gagged Communalism Combat Magazine, 01 Feb 2008

    Right to Work 
    1
    A BIG, BAD STREET FIGHT

    Tehelka Magazine, 02 Feb 2008

    SHOBHITA NAITHANI
    2
    Jobs for the poor Business India Magazine, 10 Feb 2008 Anupam Goswami
    3
    A happy tale from two states Grassroots, 01 Feb 2008 Yamini Aiyar

     Right of Indigenious, Tribal/Nomadic Communities
    1
    Hope & fear Frontline Magazine, 29 Feb 2008 Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
    2
    Missing the tribal for the trees MINT, Mumbai, 04 Feb 2008 Sanjay Upadhyay
    3
    'Nomads want to settle down' Civil Society Magazine, 01 Feb 2008 Rakesh Agarwal

    Rights of Sexual Minorities 
    1
    From the shadows Frontline Magazine, 29 Feb 2008 Vidya Venkat
    2
    Fear and conspiracy as panic grips Mumbai's gays DNA, Mumbai, 05 Feb 2008 Anjali Thomas & Aniruddha Guha
    3
    Single lesbian can adopt in France DNA, Mumbai, 23 Jan 2008 Reuters. Strasbourg

    Right to Information
    1
    The right to information is a fundamental right Sahara Time Magazine, 10 Feb 2008

    Right to Housing
    1
    Court calls PIL premature, makes slumdwellers pay The Times of India, Mumbai, 21 Feb 2008

    Right to Environment
    1
    Stranded in the Sunderbans The Hindu, Chennai, 24 Feb 2008 RINA MUKHERJI

    Right to Education
    1
    Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan fails in basics The Business Standard, Mumbai, 16 Feb 2008 Prasad Nichenametla

    Role of Media
    1
    War of Words Vidura Magazine, 01 Oct 2007 SAM MATHEWS
    2
    The Unflattering Exposure Vidura Magazine, 01 Oct 2007 NAVA THAKURIA

    Social Rights
    1 How confident are we? The Hindu, Chennai, 10 Feb 2008 Kalpana Sharma
    2
    Now, booklet on women's rights The Times of India, Mumbai, 16 Feb 2008 Deeksha Chopra

    Violence Against Women
    1
    Hope for the victim Frontline Magazine, 15 Feb 2008 R.K. Raghavan
    2 Silenced screams The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 09 Feb 2008 Kalpana Sharma
    3
    Prepare a relief plan for rape victims: HC The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 05 Feb 2008 Harish V. Nair
    4
    Stand And Deliver The Times of India, Mumbai, 19 Feb 2008 Sumit Ganguly

    Women's Rights
    1
    Outsourcing babies! The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 16 Feb 2008 Neeta Lal
    2
    Reframing laws Sahara Time Magazine, 17 Feb 2008 Aditya Sharma