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    Human Rights

                 June 2008
    Clippings and Articles for
    Organisations working on
    Human Rights  and Legal Advocacy


    sl.no.
    Title Source and Date Author

    Child Rights
    1 A fundamental right falls by the wayside The Deccan Herald, 03/06/2008  Kathyayini Chamaraj
    2 Child labour : tokenism again Sahara Time, 28/06/2008 Sujata Madhok

    Civil Liberties
    1 Shut Up The Voices of Dissent The Telegraph,  10/06/2008 Rajashri Dasgupta
    2 The Tide Is Turning The Telegraph,  16/06/2008 Gwynne Dyer
    3 Rights, violence and Indian democracy The Hindu, 22/06/2008 Paritosh Chakma

    Corruption
    1
    NREGA activists who paid with their lives: Narayan Hareka (Orissa) Down to Earth,  16/06/2008 Ashutosh Mishara

    Custodial Death
    1
    NHRC, NGO differ over custody death figures The Asian Age, Mumbai, 27/06/2008 Rashme Sehgal

    Dalit Rights
    1 Budget day Dalits’ black day Combat Law Magazine, 01/05/2008 Vincent Manoharan, Paul Diwaker and Ashutoash Vishal

    Displacement
    1 Money, instead of land, for Narmada refugees in MP The Hindustan Times,  03/06/2008 Chitrangada Choudhury

    Freedom of Speech & Expression
    1 Chaste Art is Not Art Business Standard,27/06/2008 Sadanand Menon
    2 Loksatta editor's house attacked The Hindu, 06/06/2008 Kumar Ketkar
    3 Be more tolerant towards creative fields  The Times of India, 01/06/2008 Shashi Tharoor

    Girl Child
    1 Magical beans for having a male child The Business Stanard, 08/06/2008 Sreelatha Menon

    Human Rights
    1 Calling, an Ansar Burney in India The Hindu,  13/06/2008  Nirupama Subramanian
    2 Mend your ways The Deccan Herald,13/06/2008
    3 Political Prisoners Frontier,11/05/2008
    4 Dirty tricks Frontier Magazine, 25/06/08 Subhash Gatade
    5 Addressing the issue of enforced disappearances The Hindu, 24/06/2008 Mukul Sharma

    Judiciary
    1 Ex-chief justice under corruption panel scanner The Hindustan Times, 09/06/2008 Nagendar Sharma
    2 Soon, judicial impact of all new laws will be assessed The Times of India, 19/06/2008 Akshaya Mukul
    3 UP cops want to question judges Amit Verma,  19/06/2008  Amit Verma
    4 Judiciary : Heavy odds, meagre resources Combat Law Magazine, 01/05/2008  Colin Gonsalves
    5 CJI on judicial reforms Combat Law, 01/06/2008

    Labour & Law
    1 Court: airlines can ground overweight air hostesses  The Hindu, 05/06/2008
    2 Blueprint on pension for the masses The Business Standard, 01/06/2008 Ashish Aggarwal
    3 NCW for social security cover for domestic help The Hindustan Times, 22/07/2008  Chetan Chauhan
    4 Women In Unorganised Sector: The Issue Of Welfare Schemes And Social Security Subaltern, 01/04/2008 Arani Sinha
    5 US indicts India on human trafficking and bonded labour MINT,  12/06/2008 Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu
    6 Between Hunger and the Deep Blue Sea Labour File, 01/05/2007  Pradip Prabhu
    7 Scavenging dignity The Hindu, 29/06/2008  Harsh Mander
    8 Social Security for Contractual Labour: Issues and Challenges Mainstream, 30/05/2008 P.K. Bhargava

    Media & Rights
    1 ‘Stop Balaji from cashing in on Aarushi case’ The Hindustan Times, 10/06/2008 Chetan Chauhan
    2 Headline hunters The Hindustan Times, 31/05/2008 Barkha Dutt
    3 The politics of challenging press freedom The Deccan Herald, 29/06/2008 R Akhileshwari
    4 NCW moots 5-yr jail for porn peddlers The Times of India, 25/06/2008 Girija Vyas

    Personal Law
    1 IN THE NAME OF THE LORD The Telegraph,  21/06/2008 Samim Ahmed
    2 ‘Same gotra marriage ok’ The Hindustan Times, 20/06/2008
    3 Sc says Hindu Marriage Act has broken many homes The Times of India, Mumbai, 18/06/08
    4 Treat live-in as marriage: NCW The Times of India, Mumbai, 30/06/08 Himanshi Dhawan
    5 Marriages: Vows to woes The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 29/06/08 Anita Ratnam
    6 Broken homes : Is the law to blame? The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 29/06/08 Sarasu Esther Thomas
    7 Why a mindset against men? The Deccan Herald, 29/06/2008 Manasi Paresh Kumar
    8 Religious faultline: Rules differ widely The Deccan Herald, 29/06/2008 Pratap Patnaik
    9 Dowry declared 'un-Islamic' The Deccan Herald, 25/06/2008
    10 Parents entitled to girl's wealth'  The Times of India, 11/06/2008

    Right to Food
    1 Food for thought Frontier Magazine, 25/06/2008

    Right to Health
    1 Towards equitable healthcare provision The Telegraph, Calcutta,  07/06/2008 E.S. Krishnamoorthy
    2 A matter of salt  14/06/2008 Mike Pandey
    3 Poor health services plague Thane Adivasi area The Hindu, 22/06/2008 Meena Menon
    4 Poor paid Rs 900cr bribe in '07 for civic amenities The Times of India, 29/06/2008

    Right to Housing
    1 War on the poor? The Deccan Herald,  27/06/2008 Riccardo Petrella
    2 Govt plans housing scheme for Dalits The Times of India, 30/06/2008 Sanjeev Shivadekar

    Right to Information
    1 To get information is the fundamental right of every citizen One India One People,  01/06/2008
    2 Open file Down to Earth, 01/06/2008 Ravleen Kaur
    3 RTI Act a potent tool in the hands of helpless individuals The Hindu, 24/06/2008 Sruthi Krishnan

    Right to Land
    1 Keep off land earmarked for public  The Hindu, 14/06/2008 C. H. Gopinatha Rao
    2 Flawed by design Down to Earth, 01/06/2008  Neha Sakhuja
    3 National Rehabilitation & Resettlement Policy 2007 The Times of India,28/06/2008 

    Right to Life
    1 Legalize euthanasia, says law panel The Times of India,  30/06/2008 Dhananjay Mahapatra

    Right to Participation
    1 Kitchen to cabinet? It's a long way The Times of India, 08/06/2008 Neelam Raaj

    Right to Work
    1  NREGA: A fine balance The Hindu, 02/06/2008 P. Sainath
    2 Bill amendment seeks to punish sex workers’ clients The Hindustan Times,03/06/2008 Chetan Chauhan
    3 Politics of intolerance Reality of migration The Deccan Herald, Bangalore 06/06/08 S L Rao
    4 80% jobs for those domiciled in state: Patil The Times of India, 31/05/2008  Prafulla Marpakwar
    5 For a fistful of rice in times of votebank politics MINT,  17/06/2008 Mrinal Pande
    6 worker denied entry for targeting migrants The Times Of India, 16/06/2008 Swati Deshpande
    7 An over ambitious plan Sahara Time,14/06/2008 Sanjay K Jha
    8 SC notice over Army sacking HIV+ jawan The Hindustan Times, 28/06/2008 Bhadra Sinha
    9 The human right to drinking water and sanitation Combat Law,01/05/2008  Gyana Ranjan Panda

    Rights of Tribal
    1 Scorching salt Down to Earth, 01/06/2008  Ravleen Kaur
    2 New Era In Lanjigarh Tehelka,21/06/2008 Bibhuti Pati
    3 'We want to live in the forest' Civil Society, 01/06/2008
    4 Profiteers vs the People Combat Law, 01/05/2008 Elisabeth Abeson
    5 The wrong prescription for a right cause The Deccan Herald, 10/06/2008 Jayalakshmi K

    Sexual Harassment
    1 The fear factor The Telegraph,  09/06/2008 Shuma Raha

    Sexual Minorities & Law
    1 Victorian Stick  Down to Earth,  16/06/2008 Vibha Varshney

    Violence Against women
    1 Invisible protection for women Law and order The Hindu, 14/06/2008    R. Sujatha
    2 The devil on the sidewalk  The Deccan Herald, 21/06/2008
    3 5 get life term in Bijal gangrape The Asian Age,  21/06/2008 Deepal Trivedi
    4 Cash for rape victims not enough The Times of India,  20/06/2008

    Women's Rights
    1 Equality blow to men’s meet The Telegraph,  25/06/2008