Press Releases

S.No.	Title	Release Date	Action
1	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a man after inhaling toxic gases in a sewer line during a cleaning operation carried out by the NOIDA Authority in the Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh	16-Jul-2026	View
2	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of eight women and a minor in a week after undergoing surgery in the Gynaecology wards of the government hospitals in the Bhilwara and Banswara districts of Rajasthan	16-Jul-2026	View
3	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported physical and sexual assault on two juveniles by fellow inmates at a Juvenile Home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh	16-Jul-2026	View
4	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three children due to drowning in the ‘Ash Dyke Lagoon’ constructed by the NTPC in the Muzaffarpur district, Bihar	16-Jul-2026	View
5	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a worker and injuries to two others after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a sewer chamber in the Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh	13-Jul-2026	View
6	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three workers and injuries to several others in an explosion at a factory situated in the Urla industrial area of Raipur, Chhattisgarh	13-Jul-2026	View
7	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported snake bite to four students at a residential school hostel resulting in the death of one girl student in the Lohardaga district, Jharkhand	13-Jul-2026	View
8	NHRC, India hears online 86 cases of alleged bonded labour in Haryana brick kilns	10-Jul-2026	View
9	Curtain raiser: NHRC, India to hear online 86 cases of alleged bonded labour in Haryana brick kilns on 9th July 2026	07-Jul-2026	View
10	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a newborn due to failure to receive ventilator support for 24 hours despite being taken to three hospitals of Hisar and Rohtak districts in Haryana	06-Jul-2026	View
11	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 7 migrant labourers and injuries to 5 others when a massive granite rock fell on them at a quarry in Bengaluru, Karnataka	06-Jul-2026	View
12	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported loss of a toddler's eyesight due to medical negligence in Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh	03-Jul-2026	View
13	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported incidents of toddlers being treated inhumanly by the nannies at a creche in an IT company in Bengaluru, Karnataka	03-Jul-2026	View
14	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reports about 12 bonded labourers being assaulted in captivity and forced to work till midnight without sufficient food and wages for nearly one and a half years at a factory in the Muzaffarnagar district, Utta	02-Jul-2026	View
15	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of at least five labourers and injuries to twenty others in an under-construction building collapse in Kolkata, West Bengal	02-Jul-2026	View
16	NHRC, India’s four- week in-person Summer Internship Programme concludes	25-Jun-2026	View
17	NHRC, India participates in the First Consultative Meeting of NHRIs, State Bodies and other organisations of SCO Member States responsible for the protection of human rights and freedoms held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	23-Jun-2026	View
18	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two women and several others falling sick after ammonia leak at a shrimp processing factory in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu	22-Jun-2026	View
19	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported illegal confinement of a minor boy as an adult inmate at Kasna jail in Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh for more than two months before being shifted to a juvenile home	19-Jun-2026	View
20	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a girl after being attacked by stray dogs in the Rupnagar district, Punjab	15-Jun-2026	View
21	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported social ostracisation of a woman in the Sundargarh district of Odisha and alleged denial of villagers' support for her last rites	15-Jun-2026	View
22	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of eight workers and injuries to six others in a blast at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited in Andhra Pradesh	11-Jun-2026	View
23	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of four workers while cleaning a septic tank at a jewellery manufacturing unit in the Surat district, Gujarat	10-Jun-2026	View
24	NHRC, India organises an Open House Discussion on ‘Safeguarding human rights against digital arrest scams’ in hybrid mode	09-Jun-2026	View
25	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three persons and injuries to two others after inhaling toxic fumes while manually cleaning a sewage line inside a factory in Ludhiana district, Punjab	05-Jun-2026	View
26	NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of the reported beating and parading of a girl on suspicion of theft in the Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh	05-Jun-2026	View
27	NHRC, India organised a meeting of Environment & Climate Core Group on ‘Heat Wave and its Mitigation in Urban Areas’	04-Jun-2026	View
28	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
29	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
30	NHRC, India’s 4-week in-person Summer Internship Programme – 2026 for postgraduate-level students begins in New Delhi today	01-Jun-2026	View
31	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for May 2026 concludes	29-May-2026	View
32	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
33	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
34	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
35	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
36	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
37	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
38	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
39	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for May 2026 begins	19-May-2026	View
40	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
41	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