-The Telegraph Algiers (Algeria): At a time when a debate over triple talaq and the need for a uniform civil code rages in India, a Sunni Muslim-dominated country that Vice-President Hamid Ansari just visited offers some interesting insight. Algeria, the north African country that figures in the Modi regime's Africa outreach, last year adopted a law criminalising domestic violence against women despite conservative Muslims terming it an intrusion into a couple's privacy. The...
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Only 3 Odisha's Hospitals Meet Fire Safety Norm: Human Rights Commission
-PTI New Delhi: Only three of Odisha's 568 hospitals have fire safety clearance, the National Human Rights Commission said today and issued a notice to the state government over the fire incident at a hospital in Bhubaneswar which has left 21 people dead so far. The Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that at least 21 people died and more than 100 others were injured in the blaze that...
More »4 kids die due to malnourishment in Rewa, MPHRC asks for report
-Hindustan Times Rewa/ Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of four malnourishment deaths reported over the last three months in Rewa district. MPHRC has also asked for a detailed report from chief medical and health officer (CMHO), Rewa SK Tripathi on the malnutrition deaths. Three of the children who died were girls. One of them died just a couple of days back.Deaths of 62 children over five months in...
More »SC says jails are overcrowded by 150 %, laments plight of inmates -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu “Fundamental rights and Human Rights of people, however they may be placed, cannot be ignored only because of their adverse circumstances” Blaming Delhi for paying “little or no attention” to the fundamental rights of under trials and convicts, the Supreme Court said it is “not only tragic but also pathetic” to find that prisons in the national capital, along with half a dozen States across the country, are overcrowded by...
More »Unclog the RTI process by making basic information public
-Hindustan Times The first decadal study conducted after the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed that over 1.75 crore applications have been filed with one-fourth being requests to the Centre. The study, conducted by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, reveals that 27.2% (47.66 lakh) of the total RTIs filed between 2005 and 2015 were to the different ministries and departments under the Centre. This is a conservative estimate because many departments...
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