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September 2008 |
Clippings
and Articles for Organisations working on Human Rights and Legal Advocacy |
| Sl.no. |
Title | Source and Date | Author |
| Adoption Act | |||
| 1 |
In the name of the mother | The Telegraph, Calcutta, 10 Sep 2008 | V. Kumara Swamy |
| Amendments to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2006 | |||
| 1 |
Sex work
law
reform– Controversy continues … |
Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Jul 2008 | |
| Atrocities | |||
| 1 |
Govt in bind on Khairlanji relief | The Times of India, Mumbai, 27 Sep 2008 | Prafulla Marpakwar |
| 2 |
Six to hang for Khairlanji Dalit massacre | The Times of India, Mumbai, 25 Sep 2008 | Vaibhav Ganjapure |
| 3 |
Lessons from Khairlanji | The Hindu, Chennai, 27 Sep 2008 | Meena Menon |
| Black Laws | |||
| 1 |
What! Pota again? | The Asian Age, Mumbai, 26 Sep 2008 | Fali S Nariman |
| Child Rights | |||
| 1 |
Sexual Abuse At School: Court Favours Monitoring System | Lawyers
Collective Magazine, 01 May 2008 |
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| Consumer Law |
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| 1 | Who should keep tabs on medical malpractice? | DNA, Mumbai, 01 Sep 2008 | MS Kamath |
| Corruption | |||
| 1 | Netas
swallow
farmers' aid |
The Times of India, Mumbai, 13 Sep 2008 | |
| Domestic Violence |
|||
| 1 |
Battered wives hunt in vain for mythical Protection Officers | The Times of India, Mumbai, 25 Sep 2008 | Lois Beckett |
| 2 |
A wake up call | The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 23 Sep 2008 | Kausalya Santhanam |
| 3 |
Speaking for women | Lawyers
Collective Magazine, Date: 01 Jul 2008 |
Asmita Basu |
| Dowry | |||
| 1 | Govt to review anti-dowry law | The Times of India, Mumbai, 05 Sep 2008 | Himanshi Dhawan |
| 2 |
No dilution of dowry law: NCW | The Times of India, Mumbai, 11 Sep 2008 | |
| 3 |
HC curbs on arrest of in-laws in dowry cases | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Aug 2008 | |
| Forest Bill | |||
| 1 | Forest clearance made sulabh | The
Business Standard, Mumbai, 14 Sep 2008 |
Kanchi Kohli & Manju Menon |
| Freedom of Speech, Expression | |||
| 1 | Art on trial | Frontline Magazine, 26 Sep 2008 | Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta |
| 2 |
Husain's 'Bharat Mata' painting a work of art:SC | The Times of India, Mumbai, 09 Sep 2008 | |
| Human Rights | |||
| 1 |
5 countries account for all child executions: HRW | The Times of India, Mumbai, 11 Sep 2008 | |
| 2 | Don’t blame the human rights defenders | The Hindu, Chennai, 14 Sep 2008 | Maja Daruwala |
| 3 | Human rights first | The Times of India, Mumbai, 25 Sep 2008 | Rajindar Sachar |
| Judiciary | |||
| 1 | “Judges can’t be prosecuted for wrong orders” | The Hindu, Chennai, 03 Sep 2008 | |
| 2 | SC concedes rot in judiciary | The Times of India, Mumbai, 10 Sep 2008 | Dhananjay Mahapatra |
| 3 | In rare case, govt moves to sack corrupt HC judge | The Times of India, Mumbai, 09 Sep 2008 | |
| 4 | The Untouchables | The Times of India, Mumbai, 14 Sep 2008 | Manoj Mitta |
| 5 |
Of justice, justices and justicing | The Hindu, Chennai, 12 Sep 2008 | V.R. Krishna Iyer |
| 6 |
HCs don't have power to shift cases' | The Times of India, Mumbai, 29 Sep 2008 | |
| 7 |
Yet Another Judicial Disaster | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Aug 2008 | |
| 8 |
SC rejects PIL asking for judge assets, RTI panel to take a call | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Jun 2008 | |
| Labour & Law | |||
| 1 |
Rajasthan's pension scheme for unorganised sector draws praise | The Business Standard, Mumbai, 08 Sep 2008 | Siddharth Zarabi |
| 2 |
Women govt staffers to get up to 3 years as 'child care' leave | The Times of India, Mumbai, 16 Sep 2008 | Ashish Sinha |
| 3 |
Now, women can avail of balance maternity leave | The Times of India, Mumbai, 16 Sep 2008 | Ashish Sinha |
| 4 |
Welfare of construction workers: SC seeks report from states | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Jun 2008 | |
| 5 |
Working mothers get a well-deserved break | The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 04 Sep 2008 | Gaurav Choudhury |
| MCOCA | |||
| 1 | ‘Cops must not misuse licence to tap’ | The Times of India, Mumbai, 02 Sep 2008 | Swati Deshpande |
| Personal Laws | |||
| 1 |
Married or not: HC bench split down the middle | The Times of India, Mumbai, 18 Sep 2008 | Swati Deshpande |
| 2 |
Hindu Marriages Act “has broken more homes than uniting:” judge | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Jul 2008 | |
| Public Interest Litigation | |||
| 1 | Is your petition of public interest, asks High Court | Mumbai Mirror, Mumbai, 18 Sep 2008 | Hetal Vyas |
| 2 |
Bitter PIL To Swallow | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 May 2008 | |
| Right to Education | |||
| 1 | The Lost Chapter | Outlook Magazine, 08 Sep 2008 | Anuradha Raman |
| Right to Information | |||
| 1 | Towards an informed choice | The Hindu, Chennai, 05 Sep 2008 | Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey |
| 2 |
Babus beware, here come the RTI ‘ grads’ | The Times of India, Mumbai, 18 Sep 2008 | Kartikeya |
| 3 | R.I.P. FOR THE R.T.I.? | Outlook Magazine, 22 Sep 2008 | Chandrani Banerjee |
| Right to Land | |||
| 1 | Tata bye bye? | India Today Magazine, 15 Sep 2008 | Nivedita Mukherjee |
| 2 |
Proposed law to limit govt’s role in land acquisition | The Times of India, Mumbai, 13 Sep 2008 | Subodh Ghildiyal & Nitin Sethi |
| 3 |
In a first, Raigad farmers to vote on SEZ | The Times
of India, Mumbai, 13 Sep 2008 |
Prafulla Marpakwar |
| 4 |
Court ammo for govts in land war | The Telegraph, Calcutta, 13 Sep 2008 | Samanwaya Rautray |
| 5 |
SC accepts PIL on faulty farm policies | The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Sep 2008 | |
| 6 |
Land acquisition: State to benefit from SC ruling | The Times of India, Mumbai, 07 Sep 2008 | Prafulla Marpakwar |
| 7 |
Free hand for acquisition | The Business Standard, Mumbai, 17 Sep 2008 | M J Antony |
| 8 |
The untold story of displacement in the North-East | DNA,
Mumbai, 07 Sep 2008 |
Himanshu Thakkar |
| Right to Participation | |||
| 1 | Women's
Reservation Bill: to be or not to be |
Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Jun 2008 | |
| Right to Work | |||
| 1 | Referendum on SEZ stumps RIL | The Business Standard, Mumbai, 14 Sep 2008 | |
| 2 | NREGA: Andhra Pradesh shows the way | The Hindu, Chennai, 08 Sep 2008 | Mihir Shah & Pramathesh Ambasta |
| 3 | Employment guarantee scheme keeps out poorest | The Business Standard, Mumbai, 26 Sep 2008 | Sreelatha Menon |
| Rights of Tribals | |||
| 1 | Tribals struggle to prove right to forest land and resources | Mint, Mumbai, 10 Sep 2008 | Padmaparna Ghosh |
| 2 |
Tribals claim they got a raw deal in Morbe dam project | The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Sep 2008 | Yogesh Naik |
| Special Law | |||
| 1 | SC upholds MCOCA phone taps | The Times of India, Mumbai, 02 Sep 2008 | Dhananjay Mahapatra |
| The Communal Violence Bill | |||
| 1 |
Bill to fight communal clashes gathers dust | The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 03 Sep 2008 | Nagendar Sharma |
| Violation of Rights by Police | |||
| 1 |
Encounter As State Policy | Tehelka Magazine, 20 Sep 2008 | Neha Dixit |
| Violence Against Women | |||
| 1 |
Rapist tag for sex with minor fiancee | The Times of India, Mumbai, 01 Sep 2008 | Dhananjay Mahapatra |
| 2 |
There is no 'honour' in killing | The Hindu, Chennai, 08 Sep 2008 | Beena Sarwar |
| 3 |
Acts that may drive women to suicide are cruelty: HC | The Times of India, Mumbai, 5 Sep 2008 | |
| Women’s Right | |||
| 1 |
Women and Access to Justice | Lawyers Collective Magazine, 01 Aug 2008 | Geeta Sajjanshetty |
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