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
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