Press Releases

S.No.	Title	Release Date	Action
1	NHRC, India organised a meeting of Environment & Climate Core Group on ‘Heat Wave and its Mitigation in Urban Areas’	04-Jun-2026	View
2	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported trafficking, selling and sexual assault of a tribal girl from Odisha in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh	03-Jun-2026	View
3	NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of 53 maternal deaths within a year due to lack of facilities in the Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh	02-Jun-2026	View
4	NHRC, India’s 4-week in-person Summer Internship Programme – 2026 for postgraduate-level students begins in New Delhi today	01-Jun-2026	View
5	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for May 2026 concludes	29-May-2026	View
6	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of six persons and injury to another after inhaling toxic gases inside an under-construction septic tank at Gauda Karlakhunta village in Kalahandi district, Odisha	29-May-2026	View
7	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a worker and injury to another while cleaning a sewage tank at a residential accommodation in New Ashok Nagar, East Delhi	27-May-2026	View
8	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a patient after a fire in a private hospital in the Dehradun district, Uttarakhand	26-May-2026	View
9	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three workers and injuries to others in an explosion at a chemical factory inside an industrial area in the Rewari district, Haryana	26-May-2026	View
10	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the media report about 60 students falling ill after consuming mid-day meal in the Nalanda district, Bihar	26-May-2026	View
11	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported arbitrary arrest of five environmental activists protesting against the tree-felling near the KBR National Park in Hyderabad, Telangana	20-May-2026	View
12	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of an activist and injuries to an MRO in an attack by a group of people associated with stone quarry owners in Palghar district, Maharashtra	20-May-2026	View
13	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for May 2026 begins	19-May-2026	View
14	NHRC issues Advisory 2.0 to Ministries and the Chief Secretaries of all the states and UTs to ensure the welfare of transgender persons	19-May-2026	View
15	NHRC, India holds a day-long Conference of SHRCs along with its Special Rapporteurs and Special Monitors in 'virtual mode' in New Delhi	19-May-2026	View
16	NHRC, India organises its core group meeting on ‘Protecting Migrant Workers' Rights: Shared Responsibility of Government and the Private Sector’	13-May-2026	View
17	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a female inmate of a Remand Home in the Deoghar district of Jharkhand under suspicious circumstances	07-May-2026	View
18	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the media report about nineteen female students contracting Tuberculosis in the hostel of the MGMSC Nursing College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh	07-May-2026	View
19	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two sanitation workers while cleaning a sewer without protective gear in Greater Faridabad, Haryana	07-May-2026	View
20	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported explosion causing fire at a chemical factory leaving 16 workers injured in Bharuch district, Gujarat	28-Apr-2026	View
21	NHRC, India asks 21 states and NCT-Delhi to take advance action to protect the lives of the vulnerable population from heat waves	28-Apr-2026	View
22	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two sanitation workers and injuries to another after inhaling poisonous gases while cleaning a sewer line at Ambedkar Chowk of the Firozpur Jhirka area in the Nuh district, Haryana	24-Apr-2026	View
23	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of four children due to drowning in a deep pit near a drain work site in the Islampura area of Nanded district in Maharashtra	24-Apr-2026	View
24	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a 12-year-old student and over 100 falling ill after consuming stale food at the hostel of Kakabandh Ashram School of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha	24-Apr-2026	View
25	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 13 workers and injuries to 20 others due to a boiler tube explosion at a thermal power plant in the Sakti district of Chhattisgarh	24-Apr-2026	View
26	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two girl students after an iron gate of a government primary school collapsed upon them in the Gajapati district of Odisha	24-Apr-2026	View
27	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported parading of a woman by the villagers with her husband on shoulders on allegations of elopement in the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh	24-Apr-2026	View
28	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 18 workers and injuries to six others in an explosion at a private firecracker manufacturing unit in Kattanarpatti area of Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu	24-Apr-2026	View
29	NHRC, India hears online 216 cases of alleged bonded labour cases in Uttar Pradesh brick kilns	16-Apr-2026	View
30	NHRC, India to hear online 216 cases of alleged bonded labour in the brick kilns across various districts of Uttar Pradesh on 16th April 2026	13-Apr-2026	View
31	NHRC invites entries for its 12th annual competition for short films on human rights	10-Apr-2026	View
32	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of one and injuries to seven others in an explosion at a private steel plant in Ramgarh district, Jharkhand	09-Apr-2026	View
33	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported consumption of illicit liquor by a student mistaking it as soft drink stored in a huge quantity at the dilapidated toilet of his school in Siswa area of Begusarai district, Bihar	09-Apr-2026	View
34	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the media report about 18 girls falling ill after consuming food from a hostel in the Memnagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat	09-Apr-2026	View
35	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported illegal detention and torture of a journalist by the Rajkot Crime Branch police in Gujarat	08-Apr-2026	View
36	NHRC, India presents awards to the seven winners of its human rights Short Film Competition 2025	07-Apr-2026	View
37	NHRC, India organised a meeting of the Core Group on Right to Food and Nutrition on the theme 'Tackling Food Adulteration in India: Understanding the Scale, Challenges and Reforms'	07-Apr-2026	View