Justice isn’t blind, the Court doesn’t wear blinkers!

Justice isn’t blind, the Court doesn’t wear blinkers!

New Delhi: “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of […]

South Asia should criminalize ‘Enforced Disappearances’

South Asia should criminalize ‘Enforced Disappearances’

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) held a Conference on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in South Asia on the eve of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (30 August). Lawyers and activists who attended the conference called on South Asian States to immediately criminalize […]