Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage Rights: Need of the Hour

This piece is authored by Bipasha Khatana, the Senior Editor of the Human Rights Blog, CASIHR. The Constitution of India guarantees equality to each and every person of the country. However, in the post-modern times like these, when the human rights of people are grossly violated, the constitutional safeguards seem to wield power only in …

“Balancing” Dissent, Protest and Urban Mobility: The Shaheen Bagh Judgment

This piece is written by Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj. The author is an advocate practicing in Delhi and Sonipat. He is a graduate of National Law University, Delhi and holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School where his focus areas of study were constitutional law, media law and human rights In the Shaheen …

Press Freedom v. Trial by Media: Examining the rights and role of the Press

Kritika Kumar Rishabh Chhabaria This article discusses the rights and the role of the press and media in the present times. These rights, however, are subject to reasonable restrictions as per the Indian Constitution. In the recent past, there have been several instances where the press has exceeded its right and launched a trial that …

Human Right to Privacy: Privacy in India in the Age of Big Data

Kritika Kumar This article examines the problem of data privacy in the backdrop of human rights, and seeks to briefly analyse the corresponding law in India, in comparison with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, in order to propose possible solutions and a way forward. Introduction “There was of course no way of knowing …

The Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Impacts through the ‘Due Diligence’ Standard

Ajay Raj Recently, the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group has published its Second Revised Draft Treaty for Business and Human Rights. Pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) of this Draft Treaty, ‘due diligence’ is required for discharging corporate responsibility towards human rights impacts. A perusal of the Draft Treaty, however, reveals that there exists no threshold for interpreting …