The Supreme Court of India stayed a government order that restrained non-governmental organizations from providing relief to victims of anti-Christian violence in Orissa. Small amounts of relief reaching thousands left homeless by violence on Christmas.

Members of the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), visited the Central Tibetan administration expressing their solidarity with the Tibetan people’s struggle for justice and their commitment to render free judicial aid to Tibetans living in India.

At a press conference held at the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan administration, members of the Human Rights Law Network launched the Hindi version of their bimonthly magazine, Combat Law that focuses on the issue of Tibet and highlights the problems faced by Tibetan people.

Members of the Human Rights Law Network express their solidarity with the hunger strikers on an indefinite hunger strike to seek a response from the Chinese authorities to their demands.

In a rare instance of a court verdict sentencing 10 police officers, campaigning lawyer Mr. Colin Gonsalves says “… the Connaught Place verdict is a welcome development..”

Book Launch
Women’s Press Corps
16 July 2007, 12 pm – 2 pm

The judicial history of the Best Bakery case puts faith back in some institutions.

Small Description: The Centre is under no obligation to wait for a state’s consent in case of communal riots. But the new Communal Violence Prevention Bill might just betray its own agenda, writes Colin Gonsalves

 In the wake of atrocities committed by the police ICHRL organizes a public and press meeting on police reforms in Mumbai  for a discussion on the model police act that the supreme court plans to role out.