-Outlook While great awareness has been raised about sexual violence against women in India, much less is known about the problem of sexual abuse of children' Summary The rape and murder of a student in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, followed by large public protests, has led to a great deal of soul searching about the problem of sexual violence in India. Politicians, lawyers, women’s rights activists, and an independent government...
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‘Without growth... we will be constrained in our ability to defend national security’ -P Chidambaram
-The Indian Express Until recently, we took a compartmentalised view of national security. Each threat to national security was neatly fitted into one compartment. The first, of course, was a war with Pakistan. That was fitted into a compartment and was meant to be deterred, or defended, through the might of our armed forces. A war with China was, and remains, unthinkable, and therefore that threat was fitted into another compartment...
More »8200 children dead in five years at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital, human rights panel issues notice
-PTI National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notice to Union Health Secretary and Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on a complaint alleging that more than 8,200 children have died at the institution in the past five years. The panel issued the notices returnable in four weeks on the complaint by RH Bansal alleging that more than 8,200 children up to the age of five years died during the last...
More »Government tightens guidelines for clinical trials-Vidya Krishnan and Jacob P Koshy
-Live Mint Developments a part of reforms initiated after apex court’s intervention to amend Drugs and Cosmetics Act The Health ministry has tightened the norms for clinical trials by making it mandatory for companies to compensate patients who may suffer injury or death while participating in the trials even if they have not been caused by the drugs being tested. So far, the compensation has been restricted only to cases where the...
More »Childhood interrupted-Nicole Rangel Menezes
-The Hindu The case of the juvenile offender in the Delhi gang rape is a wake-up call for investing more in a protection scheme that will stop children from turning to crime During the 11 years I worked with the emergency helpline service Childline, I have had the opportunity to befriend many children who live on the edge of society. Among them was 11-year-old Arif, who lived with a gang of boys...
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