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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

POSCO to Jindal: A Fact Finding Report

A four-member fact-finding team of Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan,...

Tribal Affairs Ministry Sidesteps Questions on Forest Rights Act in Rajya Sabha

The Minister of State of Tribal Affairs J.S. Bhabhor dodged providing substantial answers on the extent to which the Forest Rights Act, 2006 has been implemented across various states in India.

Assam gov’t makes sanitary napkins mandatory in factories

The decision was taken in the Assam cabinet meeting, chaired by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, to promote women’s hygiene

Sansad Gherao in Delhi for Forests Rights

Exclusive from Delhi today, thousands of people have come together for the November 21, 2019 Sansad Gherao in Delhi. The Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, a forest rights collective and many more organisations have come together to protest and take the discussion on Forests Rights, the violations of people’s rights and dilution of Forest Rights Act 2006 to the people.

Mariam – Forest Rights Activist giving women a voice in a patriarchal discourse

The Right to a Voice Revisited - Van Gujjar Women & Intersections of Community Mobilization - Elizabeth Kuroyedov

In Odisha’s Residential Schools For Tribal Girls, Education Comes At A Cost

Momita Batra (left) and Karma Mandali, both aged 14,...

UN Committee Takes Stock of the Status of Child Rights on World Children’s Day

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC)...

Kashmir Chamber seeks to sue Govt. as economic losses reach a billion dollars

The Modi-led Indian Govt. revoked its autonomy and statehood in August after the abrogation of Article 370

Ramdev insults Periyar, calls followers ‘ideological terrorists’

Dalit organizations ask him to leave the country or tender unconditional apology

States Dither As Displaced Chhattisgarh Tribals Seek Land Rights In Andhra, Telangana

More than 30,000 Adivasis from Chhattisgarh fled the Salwa...

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