The Mental Health Act Bill 2016 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 8th August 2016 and is expected to be discussed in Lok Sabha during next session. The Bill repeals the existing Mental Health Act, 1987. The Bill is aimed to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness an...
Blogs tagged with: Human Rights
ABSTRACT Freedom of / Right to Information (FOI/RTI) has now been universally recognized as a Fundamental Human Right. Such a wide recognition of the important right has perhaps propelled nearly 104 countries so far to bring into operation specific legal instruments to ensure this right to their peo...
Greetings citizens of India. This November 5th, the Anonymous India collective will again descend on central New Delhi. We invite all the activists, the workers, the students, all doctors, nurses and all those that want to see a positive change in the world, to join us, in centre New Delhi from 6pm,...
As we proceed towards the end of the phenomenon valedictory episode, for which we have Justice Hon’ble Justice N.V. Ramana, Judge, Supreme court of India as the cheif guest for the event His words of wisdom included a brief speech on his view on Human Rights and why one should chose practice as his ...
In this post, I am going to discuss how a certain brand of nationalism which I would call perverted nationalism is used to corrupt understandings of terrorism and insurgency in our legal system, which ultimately leads to a gross violation of the Rule of Law. I start with a brief discussion on how th...
In this post, I am going to discuss how a certain brand of nationalism which I would call perverted nationalism is used to corrupt understandings of terrorism and insurgency in our legal system, which ultimately leads to a gross violation of the Rule of Law. I start with a brief discussion on how th...
Does God believe in Human Rights? Or shall I say, are we making our God to believe in Human Rights? We have been guaranteed the Freedom of Religion and Conscience under Articles 25 to 28 of the Constitution of India. But, does this freedom imply making “our Gods” fanatic about their “counterparts”? ...