Almost two decades before he hit the national headlines, Trinamool Congress functionary Shahjahan Sheikh, 42, had his first brush with the law in 2006 when he was summoned to a police station for the first time. Sheikh’s rags-to-riches story continued as he maintained his political clout by defecting to TMC a year before it was voted to power first in …
According to the directions of a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, the National Human Rights Commission constituted a committee for examining complaints filed by persons displaced during post-poll violence in West Bengal. Justice Arun Mishra, the Chairperson of NHRC, constituted a six-member team headed by Ravi Jain to examine all cases of post-poll violence received by NHRC and …
Recently, the movie 'Chhapaak', based on the story of the acid-attack survivor Lakshmi, was released. SHE, THE VICTIM: ACID-ATTACKS AS A FORM OF GENDER-VIOLENCE The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and ratified by India in 1993.Under Article 1 of the CEDAW, 'discrimination against women' has been interpreted to …
