September 2001 | india-seminar.com

DURING the ’90s, following both national and international criticism of India’s lack of institutional mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the country, the central government enacted the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 (PHRA). One central pillar of this act was the creation of the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC). However, the NHRC that it created lacked a specific structure or mandate.

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2005 | india-seminar.com

CONSIDER this remarkable irony: where does the authoritarian Kazakh government turn to for reference material when it wants to clamp down on the freedom of association in Kazakhstan? To the Indian legislation governing the funding of NGOs, of course.1

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The foreign contribution billRead More »

aljazeera.com | 22 Jun 2012
As the world marks Refugee Day, minority Buddhist tribe from Bangladesh alleges persecution in their current location.

Villagers in Diyun, a farming hamlet in India’s remote northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh, wake up to the crack of dawn. They peep out of their huts and look at the sky. With clear weather, they set out for…………..

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24 January 2009-30 January 2009 | Economic and Political Weekly, volume no. 44 issue no. 4 dated

Law and Judiciary
This unconventional war cannot be won in a conventional way. It can only be won by showing that our values are stronger, better and more just, more fair and more humane than the alternative. Terrorism is a multifaceted phenomenon that must be dealt with intelligently. Anti-terror laws must only be enacted after well-considered debate. Laws that empower the security agencies by limiting civil liberties should not be constructed in haste. The December 2008 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Bill was rushed through without adequate debate. The government ignored calls from some Members of Parliament (MPs) to refer the bill to a standing committee for review before being enacted.

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5 October  2005 | The Age Online
By Christopher Kremmer
BANNING Jemaah Islamiah would be a knee-jerk reaction that would not prevent bombings such as those in Bali and could make terrorism even harder to eliminate, a respected Indian human rights campaigner and former prisoner has warned.

Ravi Nair — who spent a year in New Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail under emergency laws in the 1970s and who now heads the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi — is in Sydney at the invitation of the Edmund Rice Centre, a faith-based research and advocacy group.

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5 October  2005 | Sydney Morning Herald Online

By Christopher Kremmer
Banning Jemaah Islamiah would be a knee-jerk reaction that would not prevent bombings like those in Bali and could make terrorism even harder to eliminate, an Indian human rights campaigner and former prisoner has warned.

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Banning JI fruitless exercise, says expertRead More »