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A Good & Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt & Rosa Luxemburg (Book Review)
A Good & Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt & Rosa Luxemburg by Joke J. Hermsen and translated by Brendan Monaghan...

Mallika Ramachandran
Jul 13, 20225 min read


Mainstreaming the Human Right to Mental Health
Mental health is a global priority, and states and stakeholders are taking steps toward advancing a human right to mental health for all...

Deepa Kansra
Jul 7, 20222 min read


Pre-menstrual Syndrome and Criminal Culpability: Sound or misguided defence for female offenders
The criminality of women has for quite some time been a neglected branch of knowledge of criminology. In the past, women were viewed as...

Shikha Sharma
May 10, 20226 min read


A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective (Book Review)
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective is a short book by French political scientist and historian Françoise Vergès, and...

Mallika Ramachandran
Mar 8, 20224 min read


Gendering Economic Rights
Economic Rights are increasingly compromised as one moves down the social ladder. The economic rights of women who are marginalized at...

Ishita Chakma
Mar 8, 20227 min read


Human Rights and Psychology
This post was first published in The Human Rights Blog as When Human Rights and Psychology Meet (30.11.2021) According to many scholars,...

Deepa Kansra
Dec 11, 20215 min read


Denotified Tribes and the Road to Comprehensive Reforms: In conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal
Last month, Dr. Deepa Kansra and Dr. Mallika Ramachandran, editors at Rights Compass had a conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Aggarwal,...

Rights Compass
Aug 16, 202113 min read


Denotified Tribes and Challenges of Age Old Traditions: In conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal
Last month, Dr. Deepa Kansra and Dr. Mallika Ramachandran, editors at Rights Compass had a conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Aggarwal,...

Rights Compass
Aug 11, 202117 min read


Condemned: An Historical Account of Cruelty and Powerlessness (Book Review)
With the commencement of colonization and imperialism by Western powers including England from the 15 century onwards, generations of...

Mallika Ramachandran
Jun 13, 20215 min read


The harmonization of domestic and international standards on the criminalization of rape
In the field of human rights, expressions like justice and legal reform are closely linked to the process of harmonization of domestic...

Deepa Kansra
Jun 8, 20215 min read


The Handmaid’s Tale: A Human Rights Review
You fit into me like a hook into an eye, a fish hook and an open eye. The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published in...

Manavi Rhythm
Mar 7, 20214 min read


Food, Right to Food, and Everything in Between, in conversation with Dr. Nira Ramachandran
Earlier in 2021, Dr. Deepa Kansra, Co-editor, the Classroom Series had a discussion with Dr. Nira Ramachandran, Author, Persisting...

Rights Compass
Mar 4, 202111 min read


The Black Kids and Everyday Discrimination
Everyday discrimination is not simply a matter of violation of a paper right. In fact, described as ‘interpersonal daily hassles and...

Mallika Ramachandran
Feb 10, 20215 min read


Extending the Strategic Ambition for Corporate Social Responsibility
Reeva Gujral Singhal, Aryamann Oberoi and Sanskriti Mehta Corporations have been attributed the personality of a legal person, distinct...

Reeva Gujral Singhal
Feb 7, 20213 min read


Neuro rights, the new human rights
The human mind has been a subject matter of study in psychology, law, science, philosophy and other disciplines. [i] By definition, its...

Deepa Kansra
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Politics, Culture and Human Rights, in conversation with Dr. Saumyajit Ray
Earlier in 2020, Dr. Deepa Kansra, Curator and Editor, the Classroom Series had a discussion with Dr. Saumyajit Ray, Author, America’s...

Rights Compass
Jan 1, 20215 min read


Unsafe abortions: The Silent Pandemic
Unsafe abortion is a silent pandemic that warrants the global community’s attention as a public-health and a human-rights imperative. The...

Aswin Grace
Dec 27, 20203 min read


Indian Courts’ Reference to the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
In the Indian context, while domestic legislation is given primacy, courts are to respect the rules of international law (where there is...

Mallika Ramachandran
Dec 8, 20205 min read


Earth Consciousness and Evolving Frameworks
Earth consciousness or the universal respect for nature and all of its forms is manifesting in different ways. It can be viewed as the...

Kirat Sodhi
Dec 6, 20202 min read


Fraternity, the unforgotten principle
In different parts of the world, attempts have been made to define the principle of fraternity as a political and legal value as compared...

Deepa Kansra
Nov 26, 20205 min read


Backlash against human rights
Backlashing is a perennial challenge for human rights. Its manifestation in various forms including the repudiation of human rights...

Deepa Kansra
Nov 26, 20204 min read
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