Odisha
The Odisha Human Rights Law Network unit was established in 2004 at Bhubaneswar with a sub-unit at Kandhamal.
The unit focuses on providing legal support to groups displaced by either multinational mining companies or special economic zones (SEZs).
The unit intervened in Kandhamal district when the Christian minority faced persecution by the fundamental forces. It continues to file PILs in defence of marginalised communities, including stigmatised members of society such as sex workers. The ‘Arun Mallick compensation case’ whereby a petition was filed before the high court for the proper rehabilitation of commercial sex workers of Bhubaneswar is an example of this. Due to the intervention, the court delivered a historic judgment stopping the government from evicting the sex workers without proper rehabilitation.
Main Concerns
1. Land rights of marginalised communities facing eviction threat from mining corporations
2. Rights of PLHIV
3. Disability Rights
4. Reproductive rights of women from marginalized communities
5. Health rights & prevention of chronic diseases
6. Protection of the environment from polluting industries
training
Webinar on State Level Meeting on Migrant Labour and Labour Law – Odisha
Human Rights Law Network conducted a webinar with the representatives of major grass root organisations and movements ...read more
litigation
HRLN Odisha's Unit fights to provide environmental justice for residents of various villages of Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha
Sushama Malik & Ors. v. Industrial Development Corporation, Orissa & Ors (Writ Petition 4998 of 2020)
litigation
High Court orders proper implementation of the directions laid down by the Supreme Court in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India
Satyabhama Rath Vrs. State of Orissa & Others W.P.C (PIL) No. 15601 of 2015
Disposed Off
publication
National Research Study on Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Neighboring States of Odisha
Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 or in short, the Forest ...read more