HUMAN RIGHTS | COMBAT LAW ARCHIVES

Vol. 4, Issue 5, January 2006
10 years of the WTO

Let the WTO's will be done?
From Havana to Hong Kong
GATS subversion of democracy
Vol. 4, Issue 4, November-December 2005
Health for all

The Indian kidney bazaar
Drug price control
Combating the two-child norm
Vol. 4, Issue 3, August-September 2005
Tsunami relief

Betrayal of tsunami survivors
The sorry state of rehabilitation
Crying need for community radio network
Vol. 4, Issue 2, June-July 2005
Patents

Amended Patents Act: A ctitique
Big players and our national interest
TRIP-ped!
Vol. 4, Issue 1, April-May 2005
Witness protection

New law needed
High time to enact whistleblower protection
The Free and Compulsory Education Bill
Vol. 3, Issue 5, January-February 2005
Workplace sexual harassment

Visakha: starting the battle
Seeking judicial support
Amendments to Hindu Succession Act
Vol. 3, Issue 4, November-December 2004
PERSONAL LAWS

Flip-flop on personal laws
Marriage in Islam
Constitutional challenges, communal hues
Forced change
Vol. 3, Issue 3, September-October 2004
URBAN HOUSING IN INDIA

Imaginary cities
Linking urban poverty and housing
Tackling evictions
National slum policy
Vol. 3, Issue 2, April 2004
WATER

Soft drinks, hard realities
Making water a human right
Is privatisation the only solution?
Coca-Cola: The sparkle of death
Vol. 3, Issue 1, April 2004
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

Children's rights in shining India
Globalisation - will our children pay the price?
Child sexual abuse: Time for action
Child labour and cultural relativisms
Vol. 2, Issue 6, February-March 2004
CORPORATE CRIME

The right to strike
Bhopal - the toxic legacy
Corporate criminal liability
Drug prices set to soar
Vol. 2, Issue 5, December-January 2003/4
ADIVASIS

Driven to bondage and starvation
Unequal access to justice
A rape victim speaks
An ideal law, but only on paper
Vol. 2, Issue 4, October-November 2003
MARGINALISED SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS

Redefining oppressions, articulating rights
Section 377: Weapon of persecution
The human rights on an 'unpeople'
Shipbreaking: legal challenges
Vol. 2, Issue 3, August-September 2003
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Sexual harassment at work
The girl-child's tragedy
Retirement age of air hostesses
Saffronising the judiciary
Vol. 2, Issue 2, June-July 2003
THE DEATH PENALTY

Four myths about the death penalty
Trend towards abolition
The Malimath Committee
Combating hate-speech
Vol. 2, Issue 1, April-May 2003
ARMED FORCES (SPECIAL POWERS) ACT

Documenting violations in Manipur
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
The right to bail
The privatisation of food
Vol. 1, Issue 7, February 2003
CONVERSIONS

Convert and be damned
Choosing your caste
Sikhism - religion or sect?
Treating cults as culprits
Vol. 1, Issue 6, February 2003
RIGHT TO INFORMATION

A battle half won
Delhi's citizens show the way
Goa's 'showcase' law on Right to Information
Taking stock in Rajasthan
Vol. 1, Issue 5, December 2002 - January 2003
GLOBALISATION AND ENVIRONMENT

An uninvited guest
Another world is possible
Electronic sweatshops
Agriculture - reaping a bitter harvest
Vol. 1, Issue 4, October-November 2002
DALITS

Hindu social order and the rights of dalits
Reservation and recent judicial trends
Defying Samata with impunity
Tribals facing genocide
Vol. 1, Issue 3, August-September 2002
RIGHT TO FOOD

The spectre of starving India
Lying statistics, and dying children
War over water
Reality of homelessness
Vol. 1, Issue 2, June-July 2002
COMMUNALISM AND LAW

Flouting the law, government-style
Communalism and the law
Bans - silencing dissent?
A rational sentencing policy
Vol. 1, Issue 1, April-May 2002
REPRESSION AND THE STATE

Repression and the state
POTO and terrorism
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act
Sex selection and the law