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Kashmiri Pandits hold barefoot march in Jammu, demand to ensure their "Rig
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The pandits held the march on the occasion of Constitution Day on November 26 demanding from the government to safeguard their "Right to Life" provided in Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
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NHRC issues notice to environment ministry on reports of 'air pollution im
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took a suo motu cognizance of media reports quoting an external survey that air pollution is a great threat to human health in India, reducing life expectancy overall by 5 years and 9.7 years for the people in Delh
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End violence, serious human rights violations against Afghan refugees: Rig
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 21 (ANI): To mark World Refugee Day, the Alliance for Human Rights in Afghanistan reminded the international community of its obligations to uphold and protect the right to seek asylum, the right to life and other fundamental human rights of Afghan refugees under th
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SC vindicates itself by holding that right to life is worth more than a th
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Hours after cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was awarded a one-year jail term in a 1988 road rage case, former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Thursday said that Supreme Court vindicates itself by holding that the right to life is worth more
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CPI(M) MP urges Centre to ensure access to free public education
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala V Sivadasan on Tuesday urged Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a letter to ensure access to free public education saying that it is an essential condition for realizing the right to li
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SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking repatriation of Indian Army off
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a plea filed by the wife of an Indian army officer, a prisoner of war (PoW) detained by Pakistan since 1971, seeking his repatriation and effective mechanism for enforcement and protection of Prisoners of Wa
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Pakistan: Demanding right to life seen as act of dissent
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Highlighting the human rights violations in the country, a Pakistan activist said that demanding the most basic right, the right to life, has become an act of dissent in the country.
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Centre, State govts failed to secure minorities: Delhi HC Women lawyers fo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): The Delhi High Court Women Lawyers Forum has sent a letter petition to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, highlighting the alleged failure of the Central and State Governments to secure the Minority communities in India, their Fundamental Right to life w
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SC disapproves of UP's 'symbolic Kanwar Yatra', asks it to reconsider deci
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday granted one last opportunity to the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider its decision of holding "symbolic Kanwar Yatra" amid the COVID-19 pandemic while stressing that the health of the citizens of India and the right to lif
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Citizens have right to feed community dogs but with care, caution: Delhi H
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has opined that there is a need to spread awareness that even animals have a right to live with respect and dignity and said that "street dogs have the right to food and citizens have the right to feed community dogs but in exercising thi
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Right to life should prevail over rights of patent holders, says NHRC chai
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice (Retired) Arun Mishra on Tuesday said the right to life should prevail over the rights of patent holders to ensure that the scarcity of life-saving drugs, medicines and vaccines relating to COVID-1
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State has failed to protect right to life of citizens, we have all failed,
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday expressed its condolences when it heard that COVID-19 patient seeking ICU bed could not get it and said, "state has failed, we all have failed".
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