Rights Compass Blog

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

Jul 13
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
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
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
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
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,...

Denotified Tribes and Challenges of Age Old Traditions: In conversation with Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal

Rights Compass

Aug 11, 2021
17 min

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,...

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

Mallika Ramachandran

Jun 13, 2021
5 min

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...

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

Deepa Kansra

Jun 8, 2021
5 min

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...

The Handmaid’s Tale: A Human Rights Review

Manavi Rhythm

Mar 7, 2021
4 min

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...

Food, Right to Food, and Everything in Between, in conversation with Dr. Nira Ramachandran

Rights Compass

Mar 4, 2021
11 min

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...

The Black Kids and Everyday Discrimination

Mallika Ramachandran

Feb 10, 2021
5 min

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...

Extending the Strategic Ambition for Corporate Social Responsibility

Reeva Gujral Singhal

Feb 7, 2021
3 min

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...

Deepa Kansra

Jan 7, 2021
4 min

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...

Rights Compass

Jan 1, 2021
5 min

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...

Aswin Grace

Dec 27, 2020
3 min

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...

Indian Courts’ Reference to the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Mallika Ramachandran

Dec 8, 2020
5 min

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...

Earth Consciousness and Evolving Frameworks

Kirat Sodhi

Dec 6, 2020
2 min

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...

Deepa Kansra

Nov 26, 2020
5 min

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, 2020
4 min

Backlash against human rights

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