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

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

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

Politicians, activists condemn killing of alleged sandalwood smugglers in Andhra

Amnesty International and National Human Rights Commission seek explanation from Andhra Pradesh government

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

Seshachalam killing: Hyderabad High Court orders fresh post-mortem

Killing of 20 people has also led to uproar by human rights activists who have called it a brutal police action

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