50 years after they were driven out of Uganda, South Asians are still fighting for their lost homes

In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 55,000 South Asian residents from the East African country.

Liam Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Dec 07, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Will the bail granted to Anand Teltumbde help others in the Bhima Koregaon case to get out of jail?

This is the first bail in the matter granted on merits. But experts say that the case of each Bhima Koregaon accused will have to be considered individually.

Umang Poddar

· Nov 28, 2022 · 06:00 pm

For 30 years, Jharkhand Adivasis have trekked up the hills of Netarhat – to renew a protest pledge

The protest against an army field firing range has given birth to an enduring movement against displacement and dispossession.

Jacinta Kerketta

· Apr 22, 2022 · 09:00 am

A hundred years ago, a fiery speech in Uttarakhand escalated the protests against forced labour

How protests by peasants in British Kumaun ended the oppressive begar system.

Shekhar Pathak

· Jan 12, 2021 · 07:30 am

‘This injustice will not go on forever’: Arundhati Roy writes to her jailed friend GN Saibaba

‘As Covid lays siege to prison after prison, including yours, they know, that given your condition, a life sentence could so easily become a death sentence.’

Arundhati Roy

· Jul 20, 2020 · 07:37 am

‘Our battle is half won’: Kerala nuns react after police file chargesheet against Franco Mulakkal

The priest is accused of repeatedly raping a nun from a Missionaries of Jesus convent in Kottayam between 2014 and 2016.

TA Ameerudheen

· Apr 09, 2019 · 09:30 pm

‘Ensure Unnao teenager gets justice’: Banda rape survivor’s open letter to Modi and Adityanath

The teenager was allegedly raped by BJP legislator Kuldeep Sengar last year; Nishad was raped by then Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Purushottam Dwivedi in 2011.

Sheelu Nishad

· Apr 15, 2018 · 07:30 am

Two fathers have shown how arduous it is to fight medical malpractice and corruption in India

Jayant Singh and Gopendra Parmar lost their children at private hospitals. Parmar was forced to settle his case. Singh continues a legal battle.

Menaka Rao

· Apr 13, 2018 · 02:30 pm

A contempt petition pending for over 20 years may cast a shadow on Supreme Court’s Ayodhya hearing

A lawyer is trying to revive a contempt petition, filed in 1995, seeking action against seven political leaders for enabling the Babri Masjid’s destruction.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Feb 11, 2018 · 07:30 am

In Gambia, survivors of former president’s fake AIDS cure are fighting for justice

Some 9,000 Gambians were forced to give up conventional medicine in favour of ex-leader’s homemade cures.

Nellie Peyton, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jan 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

The Indian justice system is too slow, too complex and too costly, says new study

The courts and police are the least-preferred mechanisms for resolving disputes in India, the finds.

Aarefa Johari

· Jan 24, 2018 · 07:30 am

In Assam, families of 32 slain journalists await justice – and closure

Militancy, land mafia and drug cartels have made the state a dangerous place to work in.

Arunabh Saikia

· Jan 05, 2018 · 09:00 am