National Commission for the Backward Classes
The Supreme Court of India, in its judgement regarding reservation of appointments to backward classes, on 16th November 1992, directed the...
Sunday 18 December 2016
Wednesday 14 December 2016
NATIONAL COMMISSIONS FOR SCs, STs
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was originally formed in 1978, as the Commission for Scheduled Castes and...
Thursday 8 December 2016
NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MINORITIES
India is a nation marked by diversity and multiculturalism. Due to its varied past, it has assimilated people of other cultures and traditi...
Monday 28 November 2016
THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR WOMEN
The National Commission for Women Bill, 1990 was passed by both the Houses of Parliament and received assent of the President on 30th Augus...
Friday 18 November 2016
Human Rights Courts in Districts
Chapter VI of the Act comprising Sections 30 and 31 makes the provisions relating to the c:reation of Human Rights Courts in each district....
Thursday 10 November 2016
STATE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS- SHRC
The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, provides for the establishment of State Human Rights Commissions (SHRC). The composition of the S...
Sunday 30 October 2016
NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION- NHRC
The Government of India, to ensure a free and fair Redressal of human rights violation, enacted the Human Rights Protection Act, 1993. It t...
Thursday 20 October 2016
THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AMENDMENT)ACT, 2006
An Act further to amend the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Be it enacted by Parliament on13th September, 2006, in the Fifty-seven...
Monday 10 October 2016
The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
Human Rights specific elements of national enactments in India The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 An Act to provide for the consti...
Friday 30 September 2016
Judicial protection of Human Rights
Human Rights are commonly understood as “inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he i...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES
You have read that rights and duties are closely related. These in fact are considered two sides of the same coin. Gandhi, in particular, o...
Saturday 10 September 2016
DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY
As already mentioned, the framers of the Constitution were eager to provide both Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultur...
Wednesday 31 August 2016
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
The fundamental rights have been provided in part III of the Constitution. These are primarily in the nature of civil and political rights....
Saturday 20 August 2016
The Constituent Assembly-Post-Independent period
The idea that every individual possessed certain inherent rights was one of the prominent moving spirits of freedom struggle and therefore,...
Wednesday 10 August 2016
THE EARLIEST ACTIVISTS
Broadly speaking, the modem period in India started with advent of the British and the English education in the early 19" cenrury. ...
Sunday 31 July 2016
RESPONSES TO THE BRITISH RULE
The arrival of the British in India initiated a new phase in Indian history. It was under the British rule that fundamental economic and po...
Monday 11 July 2016
BRITISH INDIA : People and Human Rights Violations
For the convenience of understanding and highlighting the human rights violations during the British rule, we can divide the issues and are...