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nhrc still awaiting States’ report on pre-natal sex selection

-The Hindu Recognising pre-natal sex selection as an unacceptable form of gender discrimination, the National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) had asked key States across the country to submit a report on implementation of the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostics Techniques (PCPNDT) Regulations and Prevention of Misuse Act (Amendments in 2004) based on a set of recommendations issued by the nhrc. A reporting format was also sent to all stakeholders. But over a year...

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School expels rape victim, nhrc serves notice to top Haryana officials -J Balaji

-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) has issued notices to the Haryana Chief Secretary, the Director of Education and the Fatehabad District Collector, asking them to submit reports within four weeks on media reports that a 13-year-old rape victim and her two sisters were compulsorily given transfer certificates by a school in Khai village. The Commission was acting suo motu . The victim’s father was reportedly being pressurised by some...

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Send all kids working as servants to school: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India If you have a domestic help below the age of 14 years, then the authorities may soon visit your house and send her to school. The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the central and state governments to conduct a countrywide drive to identify children below 14 years engaged as domestic helps and send them to school to fulfill the mandate of the Right to Education Act for their...

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Court orders fresh, nationwide survey to free bonded labourers -J Venkatesan

-The Hindu Not a single case of an offending employer being sent to jail Taking note of the National Human Rights Commission report that 2,780 cases involving about one lakh bonded labourers have been registered, the Supreme Court has ordered a fresh survey by the States to find out the total number of such people still to be rescued from employers. A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, disposing of a...

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No end in sight to face-off between nhrc, J&K govt -Maneesh Chhibber

-The Indian Express The long-standing tiff between the National Human Rights Commission and the National Conference-Congress led government in Jammu and Kashmir on the issue of jurisdiction in cases involving alleged human rights violations is yet to be resolved. The latest flashpoint is the high court stay that the government has managed to get on nhrc proceedings in 34 pending cases of alleged human rights violations, most of them against security forces...

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