Blog and Network for Human Rights

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Blog and Network for Human Rights

It is common awareness that legal systems around the world continue to grow and extend the reach of human rights through various means. The normative field of human rights itself has acquired great strength while influencing multiple settings and diverse global agendas.

The initiatives we take at Rights Compass aim to map this vast interdisciplinary field of study. Through our conversations with the experts in a range of fields, blog posts and lectures we discuss and explore key concepts and themes in human rights.

Our Conversations and Blog Entries are the most interactive and vibrant feature.

EDITORS

Deepa Kansra , Mallika Ramachandran & Rabindra Kr. Pathak

Note from the editors- Classroom Series: Reading Human Rights is now Rights Compass (w.e.f. 20th March,2021).

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Recent blogs

Mainstreaming the Human Right to Mental Health

Dr. Deepa Kansra

July/2022

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Pre-menstrual Syndrome and Criminal Culpability: Sound or misguided defence for female offenders

Dr. Shikha Sharma

May/2022

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Denotified Tribes and the Road to Comprehensive Reforms: In conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal

August/2021

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Denotified Tribes and Challenges of Age Old Traditions, in conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal

August/2021

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Condemned: An Historic Account of Cruelty and Powerlessness (Book Review)

Dr. Mallika Ramachandran

June/2021

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The harmonization of domestic and international human rights standards on the criminalization of rape

Dr. Deepa Kansra

June/2021

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Conversation with Dr. Nira Ramachandran

Food, Right to Food, and Everything in Between

March/2021

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Interim Measures under OP-ICESCR:

Standards and Practice

Dr. Mallika Ramachandran

August/2020

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Technology, Human Rights and the Law

Nupur Chowdhury

July/2020

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A Good & Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt & Rosa Luxemburg (Book Review)

Mallika Ramachandran

Jul 13, 2022
5 min

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...

Mainstreaming the Human Right to Mental Health

Deepa Kansra

Jul 7, 2022
2 min

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...

Pre-menstrual Syndrome and Criminal Culpability: Sound or misguided defence for female offenders

Shikha Sharma

May 10, 2022
6 min

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...

A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective (Book Review)

Mallika Ramachandran

Mar 8, 2022
4 min

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...

Ishita Chakma

Mar 8, 2022
7 min

Gendering Economic Rights

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

Deepa Kansra

Dec 11, 2021
5 min

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,...

Denotified Tribes and the Road to Comprehensive Reforms: In conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal

Rights Compass

Aug 16, 2021
13 min

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,...