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pilot workshop@mumbai
Vulnerability to Climate Change
Mumbai-Thane Coast

a pilot workshop between fisherfolks, Coastal communities,Scientific researchers on 29th May 2010

Signs of The Times

docpost - legal rights classification

DOCPOST - LEGAL RIGHTS

CED sends you the most important clippings and articles on all rights based issues, neatly classified, and coded. All you have to do is file the individual clippings under the classification number provided. Below is the classification on Human Rights, which indicates the kind of issues that will be covered.

In each of the topic below we cover

1. The Law, Theory, perspectives, philosophy etc 
2. Policy, Programmes, Programmes, Official actions
3. Situation, general situation, statistics, benchmarks, indicators of levels
4. Events, trends, major cases, gross violations, reactions etc
5. Interest groups working against and their logic, ideology, action
6. Solutions, Alternatives, Positivew work done by groups, individuals, governments, NGOs, Moveements etc.

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RA00  HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE      
RA10  UN Declarations, Covenants, Five basic principles
RA11  International, UN Human Rights Action, Amnesty, Humans Rights WATCH
RA12  International Politics of Human Rights, ( Suspect roles of some orgns.)
RA20  Fundamental Rights in Indian Constitution
RA21  Expansion of Right to Life: to include livelihood, development etc
RA22  Right to Housing
RA30  RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT, NGO Role/ functions




RB00  HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA             
RB10 Human Rights Institutions in India
RB11 Human Rights Cases, Judiciary's Interpretation
RB12 International Politics of Human Rights
RB20 Judicial System and Legal Reforms
RB21 Alternative Dispute Mechanism, Lok Adalats
RB22 Traditional Systems, Caste panchayats
RB30 Legal Aid
RB31 Public Interest Litigation
RB32 Legal Aid Organisations/Legal Advocacy Organisations
RB33 Civil Liberties Organizations  




RC00 CIVIL LIBERTIES & POLITICAL RIGHTS     
RC01  Right of Freedom of Speech & Expression
RC02  Right to protest, Assembly
RC03  Right to Information
RC04  Right to Political Participation, Local Governments, Panchayats, Gram Sabha
RC09  Right to Political self-determination/autonomyCivil Liberties in other countries
RC10  Right to Legal Defence, procedures of search, arrest, (right to liberty)
RC20  Role of Media
RC40  Right to Privacy
RC50, RC60  Right to Self Autonomy/Self-determination personal/community level
RC61  Right To Food
RC70  Rights to refugee ( refugees)
RC80  Governance, Accountability and Corruption

 


RD00  STATE POWER & RIGHTS 
RD01 Abuse of State Machinery for political purposes ( telephone tapping)
RD02 Black Laws, PD laws, POTA, UAPA etc
RD10 Police, Police Atrocities/Excesses of Army and security Forces
RD11 Use of Police in agitations, Encounters
RD12 Mal treatment by Police of vulnerable groups
RD20 Prisoners Rights  
RD21 Torture in prisons, custodyPOW Rights
RD22 Violence against women in custody



RE00 ECONOMIC RIGHTS   
RE10 Right to Work, Employment  
RE11 Labour Rights. Unionise, Collective Bargaining, Strike
RE15 Equal Wages, Minimum Wages, Free Labour (Bonded Labour)
RE20 Land Rights ( Land Reforms, Land to the Tiller)
RE30 CONSUMER RIGHTS
RE31 Consumer Courts, Tribunals, Arbitration  
RE40 Community/Group Rights:   
RE50 Common Lands, Property temple lands, Grazing Lands, Forests, Water Bodies
RE55 Right to Environment, Pollution as violation of rights
Right to Development –
RE60 Right to Safety, Right to Health / Euthanasia                                                                   
RE61 Globalisation / Privatisation as violation of rights
RE65  Right to free movement of Labour 
RE70 Intellectual; Property Rights, Patents





RF00  SOCIAL RIGHTS   
RF10 GENDER , Patriarchy, CEDAW
RF20 Women’s Rights & Religion, tradition etc 
RF30 Women’s Right to Inheritance, Property etc
RF40 Reproductive Rights
RF50 Domestic Violence, Social violence against Women
RF60 Rights of Sexual Minorities
RF70 Sexuality Rights Discrimination of Women at the Workplace, Sexual Harassment
RF90 Womens' Rights Organisations, Actions/Issues by them 



RG00  CHILD RIGHTS, UN Conventions                                                                 
RG10 Right to Childhood, Play,Right to Education 
RG20 Child Labour 



RH00  RIGHTS OF SUPPRESSED COMMUNITIES  
RH10 Atrocities against SCs, Caste practices
RH20 Dalit Rights
RH21 Positive Discrimination, Reservations
RH30 Anti-Mandal, backlash,Caste  Violence, Caste Armies  
RH40 Stereo typing, targeting one community Rights of Indigenous,Tribal/ normadic  Communities
RH41 Displacement