human rights

Modi Beyond Bad Headlines

S Prasannarajan

Step out of the hellhole of front pages. Out there another India beckons

Tibetans in Nepal Struggle for Donations After Quake

Namita Rao and Ritu Panchal

Since 1989, the Nepalese government has not recognised Tibetans as refugees

Ten years of the RTI

Open

According to Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, there have been as many as 289 attacks on RTI activists in the past 10 years

Two Leaves and A Rebellion

Charmy Harikrishnan

A few thousand women in the hill ranges of Munnar challenge the male dominated trade unions of Kerala

Pot Needs to Call the Kettle Black

G Ananthapadmanabhan

India needs to strengthen the UN’s hand in censuring Sri Lanka. But that requires facing up to its own human rights record

The Sin of Binayak Sen

Sudeep Chakravarti

The sentencing of Binayak Sen by the Raipur Sessions Court is a measure of the Chhattisgarh government’s desperation to finesse its record of human rights violations

A fact-finding team from the Human Rights Lawyers Network visited Jharkhand, a state where Operation Green Hunt is underway. This is not a story about what they found, but an inside view of such a mission.

Where Are the Beautiful People?

Manu Joseph

Our human rights activists who oppose capital punishment choose not to speak for Kasab. That’s cowardly.

Inconvenient Martyr

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

That a headscarf can cost someone her life is disturbing enough. That the world media looked the other way is worse

Burma’s Steve Biko

Satya Sivaraman

Min Ko Naing has just received the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. Often seen as Suu Kyi’s political heir, he is serving a 65-year term for organising the 2007 uprising against the junta