/humanrights/articles/rss en /humanrights/article/breaking-chains-quest-justice-indias-legal-battle-over-sex-work <p>In India, sex work has been recognised as a “profession” by the Supreme Court of India in the landmark case, <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/taking-steps-to-ensure-sex-workers-rights/article65500371.ece"><i>Budhadev Karmaskar v State of West Bengal & Ors,</i></a><i> </i>which affirmed that sex workers are entitled to a dignified life under <a href="https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/15240/1/constitution_of_india.pdf">Article 21</a> of the Indian Constitution.</p> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:33:40 +0000 Manvitha B. S. 2699 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/open-call-blog-posts-widening-justice-gaps-narrowing-world <p><b>Some reflections on the theme:</b> The rapid expansion of the international human rights corpus has been successful in legalization and standardization of human rights regimes across the world. However, despite increased legalization, monitoring, and standardization across various international and regional legal regimes, impunity for violations of human rights is rife, and in many cases, becoming worse. This impunity spans from the everyday struggles of individuals to access justice to the enforcement gap of International Criminal Court arrest warrants by Rome Statute signatories.</p> Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:52:37 +0000 CHRLP 2696 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/carving-out-transgender-rights-new-indian-labour-codes <p>India’s new labour codes are set to take effect soon, however, they fall short of including transgender rights in their scheme. Globally, LGBTQIA+ workplace equality is at the center of this discussion, as was recently <a href="https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/how-the-ilo-works/ilo-director-general/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_368652/lang--en/index.htm">emphasised</a> by International Labour Organization (“ILO”) Director-General Guy Ryder.</p> Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:35:40 +0000 Poorva Sharma & Vasujit Dubey 2689 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/sentinels-democracy-confronting-global-crisis-press-freedom <p>In a world where truth is increasingly under siege, journalists find themselves as torchbearers for free speech.</p> Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:12:39 +0000 Souniya Dhuldhoya 2685 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/gender-disparities-organ-donation-and-transplantation-india-call-equality <p>The 2021 statistics <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10WSycFMxXonRLzlVDU8egUMrBmcT1pr6/view?usp=sharing">report</a> of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) of India has brought attention to a significant gender disparity: 80% of organ recipients were male, while, 75% of organ donors were female.</p> Tue, 14 May 2024 14:51:00 +0000 Manvitha B S 2684 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/end-dream-rise-and-fall-indias-secular-constitutionalism <p><b>Originally published by Verfassungsblog. Find the original publication of the blog post </b><a href="https://verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a-dream/"><b>here</b></a><b>. </b></p> <p>“<i>I do not expect India of my dream to develop one religion, i.e., to be wholly Hindu, or wholly Christian, or wholly Musalman, but I want it to be wholly tolerant, with its religions working side by side with one another.</i>”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="" id="_ftnref1">[1]</a></p> Thu, 09 May 2024 14:23:33 +0000 Vrinda Narain 2683 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/how-feminist-constitutionalism-embraces-diversity-challenging-quebecs-bill-21 <p>Originally published by I-CONnect, the Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Find the original publication <a href="https://www.iconnectblog.com/symposium-feminist-constitutionalism-part-iii-how-feminist-constitutionalism-embraces-diversity-challenging-quebecs-bill-21/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">here</a>. </p> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:40:54 +0000 Vrinda Narain 2682 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/commentary-provisions-african-union-convention-protection-and-assistance-internally-displaced <ol> <li><b>INTRODUCTION </b></li> </ol> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:45:47 +0000 Dr Omotunde Enigbokan 2660 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/regressive-step-instead-progressive-one-disregard-human-rights-decriminalisation-marital-rape <p><em>Unfortunately, despite being the <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2014/538956/EPRS_ATA(2014)538956_REV1_EN.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">biggest democracy</a> in the world India is one of <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/marital-rape-is-not-a-crime-in-32-countries-one-of-them-is-india-4130363.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">few countries</a> in the world that still doesn’t criminalises marital rape and explicitly decriminalises it with <a href="https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_5_23_00037_186045_1523</body></html>"></a></em></p> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:16:49 +0000 Shelal L. Rajput 2658 at /humanrights /humanrights/article/unveiling-equality-transformative-role-parliament-recognising-same-sex-marriages-india &������;����;��2&������;����;���Գٰ��ǻ�ܳ��پ��Dz���&������;����;/��2&������;����; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:22:39 +0000 Himanshi Srivastava & Siddharth Chaturvedi 2651 at /humanrights