Tag: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

Vanished Without a Trace: CJP writes to NHRC detailing Assam’s secret detentions and illegal pushbacks

CJP’s memorandum to NHRC reveals mass night-time raids, disappearances of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and extra-legal deportations—signalling a grave constitutional and humanitarian crisis in India’s northeast

Grave violation of human rights: NHRC on Assam-Meghalaya border clashes

Notice issued to Centre, and state governments of Assam and Meghalaya in connection with July 2021 violence

NHRC chairmanship contender Justice Arun Mishra’s legacy

High-powered recommendation committee has reportedly proposed Justice Mishra’s name to lead National Human Rights Commission

NHRC issues new advisories for bonded and migrant labourers amid Covid-19

The commission has laid down specific suggestions for prevention, identification, rescue and rehabilitation of bonded workers

NHRC refuses to take action against illegal detention of women anti-CAA protesters

SabrangIndia’s editor and co-founder, Teesta Setalvad, had approached the Commission in this matter back in 2019

NPRD petitions NHRC to provide Fr Stan Swamy ‘reasonable accommodations’ in jail

The disability rights organisation expressed anguish at the delay in granting permission to use a sipper to the 83-year old suffers from Parkinson's disease and finds it difficult to hold a cup or a glass to drink water

Dalit youth thrashed in UP village, NHRC transfers CJP complaint to UPHRC

He was then arrested on false charges after his 'upper caste' assailants claimed that the Dalit boy had beaten them up. But the pictures and the caste dynamics clearly have a different story to tell

NHRC study recommends protecting the anonymity of rape accused until proven guilty

The study, which was commissioned by the NHRC and conducted by the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) sought to understand sexual violence against women from the perspective of adult and juvenile sexual predators.

BBC journalist illegally detained in UP, HRDA writes to NHRC

The journalist was released after a call from a senior police official confirming his identity as a journalist

Allahabad HC: Bombay lawyer’s email about situation in UP turned into PIL

The email said that the situation in the State of Uttar Pradesh is antithetical to core constitutional values and warrants interference of this Court.

Allahabad HC: NHRC directed to probe into AMU police excess

The High Court directed that the inquiry be completed within a month

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