civil rights

Russia proposes Law to ban sex reassignment

The Bill – submitted on May 30 – would prohibit "medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person", according to the website of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament

Review of Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic — Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution: In search of missing mothers

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta

Review of K.G. Kannabiran’s The Speaking Constitution — A Sisyphean Life in Law: The limits and necessity of law

Uniform Civil Code | Delhi High Court asks lawyer to file information on similar pleas before Supreme Courts

It is a new assault on India’s liberty

Suhrith Parthasarathy

Suspended ASP of Ambasamudram, Balveer Singh. File

Ambasamudram custodial torture | Probe transferred to CB-CID; FIR details horrendous torture suffered by three youth

Global academics condemn government action against Centre for Policy Research

Give food, clean water, livelihood to persons relocated from Bhairo Marg slums: HC to Delhi Govt.

Inaction and intervention: On the handling of social issues

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Large number of men and women associated with various Muslim organisations participate in a protest against the Uniform Civil Code in 2016.

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All India Muslim Personal Law Board opposes Uniform Civil Code

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SC decides to examine poll law which deprives under trials, civil prison detainees their right to vote

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Raising Uniform Civil Code issue before Gujarat polls shows BJP’s condition not good: Mayawati

A group called Black Reward on Friday issued an ultimatum on Twitter, threatening to release documents on Tehran’s nuclear programme unless all “political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and people arrested in the recent protests” were released within 24 hours.

Iran’s nuclear company email system hacked, cyber group demands release of protestors