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Sixty of India’s best development economists have written to the Finance Minister today, asking for a big increase in the budget allocation for social security pensions and maternity entitlements.

Colin Gonsalves has been one of the staunchest crusader of human rights in the Supreme Court for a number of years. In recognition of his work in the field, Gonsalves, the founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) was recently conferred the 2017 Right Livelihood award.

In this interview, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves talks about his involvement in the labour movement, the efficacy of the PIL in safeguarding the rights of the downtrodden, labour laws in India, and more

The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) signed between Pakistan and India in 1960 continues to cut both ways. While several contemporary analysts have heralded the treaty for establishing protocols that somewhat evenhandedly enable the two basin stakeholders to harness the waters of the Indus system, others have bitterly criticized the very same arrangements for causing discord.

This report is based on a team visit to Kashmir in October 2016. The team consisted of V. Suresh, Kavita Srivastava, Ramdas Rao and Pragnya Joshi, all PUCL members. (Jean Drèze, also a PUCL member, joined for one day and contributed to the report). The report has been prepared by the team members in their individual capacity, for internal discussion within PUCL, and is not to be considered as an official report of the PUCL.

Close to 1,000 NREGA workers and other rural labourers converged to Birsa Chowk [in Ranchi city] from 12 districts of Jharkhand today and sat on dharna to protest against repeated attacks on their right to food and right to work. The event was jointly organised by Right to Food Campaign Jharkhand and NREGA Watch.