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    Human Rights  

      January 2008
    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 Govt scheme used to cover up atrocities DNA, Mumbai, 13 Jan 2008 Neeta Kolhatkar

    Atrocities against SCs, Caste practices, Untouchability
    1
    Shackling Water Tehelka Magazine, 26 Jan 2008 Salman Usmani
    2 Pure politics, not religion! Sahara Time Magazine, 13 Jan 2008 Ashutosh Mishra
    3
    Desperate lives The Week Magazine, 13 Jan 2008 Kavitha Muralidharan

    Capital Punishment
    1
    Abolish the death penalty The Hindu, Chennai, 07 Jan 2008




    Children
    1 Doctor's Orders Outlook Magazine, 21 Jan 2008 Anuradha Raman
    2 Child labour age bar to go up The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11 Jan 2008 Chetan Chauhan
    3 Girl turns 18, family gets Rs 1L The Times of India, Mumbai, 18 Jan 2008 Sanjay Sharma
    4 5,700 infants die every day The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 23 Jan 2008 Chetan Chauhan

    Communal Riot
    1
    Victims' missing shoes nailed Gujarat cops The Times of India, Mumbai, 19 Jan 2008 Swati Deshpande
    2
    At Cross Purposes The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 02 Jan 2008 Soumyajit Pattnaik

    Displacement
    1
    POSCO: Villagers demand 5% of share in company's profits Down to Earth Magazine, 31 Jan 2008 Ravleen Kaur
    2
    Land For The Landed? Tehelka Magazine, 26 Jan 2008 Manshi Asher and Manju Menon
    3
    Special Eruption Zone The Week Magazine, 06 Jan 2008 Lalita Iyer
    4
    No collateral damage Himal Magazine, 01 Jan 2008 Anindya Bhattacharya
    5
    Environmental Refugees Lok Samvad,Newsletter, 01 Nov 2007
    6
    The land question Frontline Magazine, 18 Jan 2008 R Krishnakumar

    Economic Rights
    1
    Without Sight Of Sea Tehelka Magazine, 19 Jan 2008 KA Shaji
    2
    Fisherfolk left out in the cold Civil Society Magazine, 01 Jan 2008 Rina Mukherji

    Governance, Accountability, Corruption
    1
    Triumph of transparency The Hindu, Chennai, 06 Jan 2008 Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar

    Human Rights
    1
    Ignorance is not bliss The Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 Jan 2008 Saheli Mitra
    2 Speak out against torture, Europe The Asian Age, Mumbai, 14 Jan 2008 Thomas Hammarberg
    3
    "Parallel reports" submitted to U.N. The Hindu, Chennai, 11 Jan 2008 Bageshree S.
    4
    The Midnight Knock The Times of India, Mumbai, 04 Jan 2008 Ketan Tanna

    Patient's Rights
    1
    Rights Of Patients Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Jan 2008

    Personal Laws, Uniform Civil Code
    1 Family Court grants divorce to Muslim couple The Hindu, Chennai, 01 Jan 2008 A. Subramani

    Prisoner's Rights
    1 Prison system and reform The Hindu, Chennai, 11 Jan 2008

    Right to Environment
    1
    PIL raises decibels DNA, Mumbai, 11 Jan 2008
    2
    NGO seeks noise mapping of city The Times of India, Mumbai, 11 Jan 2008

    Right to Freedom of Speech  & Expression
    1 Not the first attack by Hindu Samrajya Sena The Hindu, Chennai, 20 Jan 2008 Manas Dasgupta

    Right to Work 
    1
    Corruption in NREGA: myths and reality The Hindu, Chennai, 22 Jan 2008 Jean Dreze, Reetika Khera & Siddhartha
    2
    Guarantee for a scam Sahara Time Magazine, 20 Jan 2008 Sanjay K Jha
    3
    Employment guarantee: beyond propaganda The Hindu, 11 JAN 2008 Jean Dreze
    4
    Move beyond spadework The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 03 Jan 2008 S.B. Misra


     Right of Indigenious, Tribal/Nomadic Communities
    1
    PIL petition challenges Forest Dwellers Act The Hindu, Chennai, 25 Jan 2008 Mohamed Imranullah S.
    2
    A prickly ACT The Hindu, Chennai, 25 Jan 2008 Mohamed Imranullah S
    3
    Forest Act comes into force, green activists cry foul The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 02 Jan 2008 Chetan Chauhan
    4
    The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Jan 2008
    5
    Of UN And Indigenous Peoples Frontier Magazine, 23 Dec 2007 Martin Khor

    Rights of Suppressed Communities
    1
    Ire of the minorities India Today Magazine, 07 Jan 2008 M.G. Radhakrishnan
    2
    “Attack on Christian institutions pre-planned” 
    The Hindu, Chennai, 18 Jan 2008 Bikram Jeet Batra
    3
    Vandals in Orissa The Asian Age, Mumbai, 07 Jan 2008 Angana Chatterji

    Role of Media
    1
    Judgement at breakfast The Telegraph, Calcutta, 17 Jan 2008 Aveek Sen
    2
    Cubs on press freedom in S. Asia The Asian Age, Mumbai, 02 Jan 2008

    Right to Privacy
    1 Judicial Exposition of Right to Privacy Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Jan 2008 Tarun Arora

    Rights of Sexual Minorities (gays, Lesbians' etc)
    1 Law Gives Good Cheer To Queers Tehelka Magazine, 19 Jan 2008 Arvind Narrain and Vivek Divan

    Violence Against Women
    1
    Some Aspects of the Protection of Women
    from Domestic Violence Act, 2005          
    Legal News & Views Magazine, 01 Jan 2008 Jessy Kurian
    2 An assault on dignity The Hindu, Chennai, 13 Jan 2008 Kalpana Sharma
    3
    Beyond the Bilkis Bano case The Hindu, Chennai, 23 Jan 2008
    4
    CPM targeted women in Nandigram: Amnesty The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 16 Jan 2008 Sutirtho Patranobis
    5
    Leniency to rape convict costs judge job The Times of India, Mumbai, 12 Jan 2008 Dhananjay Mahapatra
    6
    Woman as victim Frontline Magazine, 04 January 2008 T K Rajalakshmi
    7
    No end to violence The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 12 Jan 2008 Deepti Priya Mehrotra
    8
    Scarred! Combat Law Magazine, 01 Jan 2008 Sheela Ramanathan
    9
    On deathbed, girl nails in-laws The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Jan 2008 Dhananjay Mahapatra
    10
    Unleashing ‘Legal Terrorism’ Sahara Time Magazine, 20 Jan 2008 Aditya Sharma
    11
    Dowry death relief for husband won't absolve in-laws: SC The Times of India, Mumbai, 07 Jan 2008
    12
    Dowry laws set to get tougher The Times of India, Mumbai, 03 Jan 2008
    13
    'False dowry case amounts to cruelty' The Times of India, Mumbai, 21 Jan 2008
    14
    Harassed husbands The Times of India, 07 JAN 2008 Shobhan Saxena

    Women's Rights
    1
    New land rights for women likely DNA, Mumbai, 05 Jan 2008 Vineeta Pandey
    2
    The Oracles Of Devi Outlook Magazine, 21 Jan 2008 Madhavi Tata

    Articles for Reference
    1
    Media Sting Economic & Political Weekly Magazine, 29 Dec 2007
    2
    Seeking the ‘Truth’ in
    Truth Commissions
    Economic & Political Weekly Magazine, 22 Dec 2007 Mukul Sharma
    3
    What’s wrong with “rights”? Seedling Magazine, 01 Oct 2007 Grain