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Contents
Introduction
Basic
rights
Discrimination
Reporting
Human Rights
Press
clippings
Links
and resources
Suggested
readings
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Human Rights and Society NHRC vetoes new terrorism law The Times of India, July 7, 2000 Not Exactly a Bill of right! The Tribune, Aug. 21, 2000 http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000821/edit.htm#6
Right to Life Female infanticide on the rise: Report The Hindustan Times, October 12, 2000 http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/121000/detNAT02.asp Female infanticide a Cause for concern The Hindu, May 15, 2000 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/05/15/stories/0415223p.htm Law preventing adoption of kids of same sex is okay: HC The Indian Express, December 4, 1997 Sad or satisfied, ending one’s life is illegal: HC The New Indian Express, June 29, 2000
Right to Shelter Nandanvanam Project: demand to stop eviction process The Hindu, June 15. 2000 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/06/15/stories/0415403i.htm The incredible lightness of being The New Indian Express, July 2, 2000 Health effects of forced evictions in the slums of Mumbai The Lancet Interactive, September 25, 1999
Right to Livelihood Fish Processing Unit/ SORDID CONDITION : A Women Worker asserts her rights The Hindu, July 10, 2000 When development brought grief to fisherman The New Indian Express, September 2, 2000 Trade Union demand unemployment-wage for workers The New Indian Express, August 12, 2000 Teacher who crippled a child for life The New Indian Express, October 23, 2000 Service rules for domestic servants anger housewives The Hindu, October 18, 2000
Right to Food and Health 40 p.c. of malnourished children are in India The Hindu, April 21, 2000 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/04/21/stories/0221000v.htm
The Hindu, May 11, 2000 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/05/11/stories/0211000r.htm
Economic Rights Haryana labourers’ struggle for a better life The Hindustan Times, September 16, 2000 Paraded naked, boy struggles with hope The Pioneer, July 13, 2000 Now, UP Minister turns sadist The Hindustan Times, July 14, 2000
Rights of Women Women in India better off, but not quite: UN report The New Indian Express, July 7, 2000 Indian Medical Association Battles Sex-Selective Abortion The Times of India, August 11, 1999
The Times of India, July 1, 2000
The Hindu, October 6, 2000 Witches: Victims of Illetracy, superstitions The Hindustan Times, September 25, 2000
Teenaged girl hacked to death by two cousins The Hindustan Times, October 3, 2000
Rights of Aged Three elderly members of a family done to death with an iron rod The Times of India, December 23, 2000 Look at all those lonely parents. Where do they all belong? The Times of India, June 21, 1998 The lengthening shadow The Hindu, August 17, 1998
Rights of Children These Kids were beaten up and made to work 15 hours a day The Times of India, 2000 Death of children in match unit: team seeks compensation The Hindu, April 27, 2000 Earning money and ‘butchering future The Hindu, December 23, 1999
Rights of Disabled Authorities cripple his future The New Indian Express, August 24, 2000 Drive to include disabled in Census 2001 The Hindu, September 27, 2000 No vacancy for the disabled here The Financial Express, July 3, 2000
Rights of Victim of Conflict Heavy-footed trampling of Human Rights The Times of India, June 29, 2000
Reporting Human Rights Plea to ratify convention against torture The Hindustan Times, June 27, 2000 Gone far, but still more mile to go The Times of India, June 30, 2000 India a land of abuse: Amnesty International The Statesman, June 18, 2000
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