Category: Human Rights
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DDA Demolition Drives in Contravention of Human Rights of the Underprivileged
Information about the Issue The residents of sixty hutments and owners of ten small-scale diaries at Asita East, Delhi were evicted from their homes and places of work by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) through a demolition drive carried out on 10th September, 2020. The DDA deemed these establishments as ‘illegal’, and demolished them as…
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Support the Slum Dwellers Project
What is the issue? As per a senior government official, there are 750 slum clusters in Delhi, of which around 52 prominent ones are located close to railway tracks. The Supreme Court, on 31st August 2020, passed an Order in connection with the piling up of the waste along the railway tracks, wherein the Court…
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The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection, and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018: Rescued or Victimized into Rehabilitation?
Human trafficking has plagued society for ages. It is the usage of force and exploitation of individuals for purposes such as slavery, sex work, and other illegal activities translating into an infringement on an individual’s human rights, with women and children being those at the highest risk of being victims of trafficking. Every country that…
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Privacy: The Laid Jurisprudence and Contemporary Challenges
Living life with dignity, encapsulated in the rights such as privacy, which is for all to enjoy, is the victory of democracy. The article highlights some of the salient features of privacy rights and takes a step back to analyse the status of privacy rights in its current form. On 24 August 2017, a nine…
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The Policy Dialogue: Employment and Social Security Policies for the Migrants
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Employment and Social Security Policies for the Migrants. Date: 8th August, 2020. Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom While India is in the process of doing away with the COVID induced lockdown, the adverse impacts of a massive…
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Housing Migrant Workers: The Biggest Ambiguity in Labour Policies Framework?
According to the 2011 Census, India has 5.6 crore inter-state migrants, which is 33% less than the number that was observed in the previous census conducted in 2001. This population is mainly employed by the unorganised/informal sector and plays a significant role in the accelerated growth story of India’s urban infrastructure. The current policies have…
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The COVID-19 Challenge: Tackling the Policy Plague of Social Inequalities
By Anushka Gutte, Research Associate, Policy In late December, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission of China reported a number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei province. Surfaced in the Chinese seafood and poultry, it was soon identified to be the novel corona virus. As of this writing, the corona virus outbreak has caused over…
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The POCSO (Amendment) Bill, 2019: Enough To Stop Child Sexual Abuse?
By Shivangi Pandey, Research Associate, Human Rights and Social Justice Policies According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s data collected in 2018, 109 children are sexually abused everyday. The Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill 2019, (POCSO Bill 2019) which amended the 2012 Act brought out by the government has been an effort…
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The Ordeal of Manual Scavenging: Tracing the Evolution of India’s Mitigation Policies
By Khushi Pamnani, Research Associate, Human Rights and Social Justice Policies The UN defines manual scavenging as the practice of manually cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling in any manner, human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Upon collection of the excreta in containers like thin boards, baskets, and buckets, manual scavengers are then responsible to…