Social lawyers

MPs to be taught ‘draconian’ IT Act Rules as India.net support galvanises for annul motion

Who owns the Internet?
Who owns the Internet?
Rajya Sabha’s member of parliament (MP) from Kerala, P Rajeeve, whose statutory motion to annul the IT (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 is slated for discussion in Parliament tomorrow, aims to convene a meeting of MPs, internet societies, and bloggers in the first week of May to create awareness against the draconian effect of the rules.

Fighting sex trafficking against the odds: IJM legal director Michelle Mendonca

Michelle Mendonca
Michelle Mendonca
If you didn’t know the exact address of the office, you’d be certain to miss it in the busy North Mumbai suburb. There are no signs and Michelle Mendonca’s business card, as legal director of the International Justice Mission (IJM), merely lists a PO box.

The only giveaway that you are at the correct place is a security keypad locking an unmarked door inside the building.