Topic: Human Rights

If Kushner’s answer to Gaza is another real-estate deal, perhaps the most constructive role America can offer him is to keep him away from the negotiating table and safely at home, where he can sell buildings without attempting to sell a people’s future.
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To examine only the violence of the oppressed while erasing the violence of occupation is not morality; it is political selectivity masquerading as principle.

The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Conversion Law is creating a chilling effect on religious freedom, leading to alleged victimisation and constitutional concerns.

When criminal process itself becomes punishment, can courts remain passive merely because the State invokes crime, terrorism, conversion, public order or national security?

“The first peoples have protected the earth for millennia. It is civilisation that has failed them—not the other way around.”

The convergence of executive demolitions and subsequent judicial acquittals highlights profound constitutional violations, demanding immediate and robust institutional correction.

A court that considers the defense of citizens against police brutality to be an improper use of its time is a court that has lost sight of why it exists.

The BDA’s selective disclosure created a deceptive impression, avoiding implementation of urgent humanitarian relief despite OHRC’s interim recommendation.

Sabitri Dora’s death is not an isolated personal tragedy but a consequence of systemic failures in the state’s social security pension delivery system.

In polarized societies, legislation is crafted with deliberate ‘architectural loopholes’ to facilitate selective application, transforming law into a tool of systemic disadvantage.

This judgment acts as a shield. It tells the government: ‘You cannot simply summon anyone at will.’

A genuine elector can become excluded from the electoral process due to failures at multiple levels, raising concerns about safeguards for vulnerable citizens.

Encounter killings promise certainty but deliver constitutional uncertainty, diminishing not only Article 21 but the rule of law itself.

A law intended to prevent communal violence must be designed for the worst-case scenario rather than the best, focusing on institutional independence and preventive intervention.

The Commission noted that no prior notice was served and due legal procedures were ignored, leaving vulnerable families homeless in life-threatening conditions.

The latest Global Slavery Index country report for USA tells us that over a million people are affected by modern slavery in the USA, the highest in the Americas in absolute numbers.

Despite a plethora of laws on justice delivery, courts are overburdened, prisons are under-funded yet over-occupied, legal aid acting as just another bureaucratic set-up, and policing awaits desperate reforms.

If the United States becomes an obstacle in this path, it too should face the boycott.

While recent murmurs from the bench reaffirm that bail is the rule, the refusal to dismantle the statutory embargo leaves personal liberty at the mercy of a judicial lottery.

A critical look at the normalization of violence, the lucrative business of conflict, and the urgent need for a sincere global peace movement.

Gender-based violence in Pakistan is not limited to isolated crimes. It is part of a wider system of social control over women’s bodies, mobility, sexuality, and choices.

The Constitution is not intended to be a document for lawyers; it is intended to be a vehicle of life. —Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

A massive civilian armada departs Barcelona to challenge the Gaza blockade and the ‘doctrine of impunity.’

When the highest courts delay fundamental liberty hearings until the state relents, they aren’t dispensing justice—they are licensing arbitrary arrest.