SC orders compensation for silicosis patients

Migrant workers contracted the disease while working in quartz-crushing factories

NHRC raps states for denying silicosis deaths

Issues show-cause notices to Jharkhand and Delhi for payment of monetary relief

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts

Over 400 farmers have committed suicide in Telangana since its formation

National Human Rights Commission has sought report from the state

Pesticide manufacturers want to export more endosulfan

Apex court asks them to file application

India softens its stand on endosulfan

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

Drug trials: Irked NHRC issues notices to Centre and Andhra Pradesh government

Says respond else face action

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts

Sugarcane farmers’ suicides: national rights body urged to intervene

Unscientific pricing of sugarcane, harassment by money lenders and delay in receiving payments are plaguing cultivators

NHRC raps Mamata govt on silicosis rehabilitation

At least 250 people from Minakhan block in Sunderbans contracted the disease when they left home to work as labourers in stone and mineral …

NHRC orders relief payment to seven children who suffered fluorosis after drinking water

Human rights commission rules that children's basic right to clean drinking water had been violated

Okhla waste-to-energy plant will be closed, assures Arvind Kejriwal

Aggrieved residents meet Delhi chief minister with the list of violations by the plant owned by the Jindal group  

States neglecting silicosis: NHRC

Human rights commission calls for collective efforts to provide healthcare, compensation to victims and kin

NPCIL pays compensation to workers injured at Kudankulam

The compensation was issued after the National Human Rights Commission intervened in the matter

NHRC raps Centre, Madhya Pradesh for insensitivity towards dam oustees

People affected by Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams had staged jal satyagraha to demand rehabilitation rights

Demand for SIT probe into Centre's child nutrition scheme

Supreme Court commissioners report multi-crore scam involving private contractors and bureaucrats in food distribution under Integrated Child …

Relief given at last to Kerala’s endosulfan victims

Package includes committee to examine need for tribunal to provide compensation; excluded victims, kin and caregivers to benefit

NHRC orders judicial probe into Seshachalam ‘encounter’

Witnesses depose before human rights commission, challenge the ‘self-defence’ argument of Andhra Pradesh Special Task Force