Q.Go through recent newspapers and make a list of people's movements that have made proposals for new kinds of rights?
This is a personal research exercise, so it has no single fixed answer — but the chapter gives a clear method for finding and evaluating genuine new-rights movements in the newspapers you read, and names several live categories to look for.
The chapter's own test for what turns a claim into a right is useful here: a genuine rights movement is not just any group expressing a want, but an organised, sustained claim that something is necessary for dignity/self-respect or for well-being, and that is addressed to the state (or to society) as an obligation, not a favour. When scanning newspapers, look for exactly this pattern rather than any isolated individual complaint.
The chapter names several categories of movements that are actively pushing for new kinds of rights in India and elsewhere, and these are useful starting points: environmental movements demanding protection from pollution, clean air and water, and sustainable development; movements led by tribal and forest-dwelling communities to protect their habitat and traditional way of life; campaigns against child labour, including bonded labour, and for children's welfare; movements demanding a right to livelihood or a minimum wage for the urban and rural poor; and information and transparency movements built around the right to information. For each newspaper report you collect, record: who is making the claim, what specific harm or exclusion prompted it, whether the claim rests on dignity, on well-being, or on both, and whether the demand is directed at the state, at society, or at both — this is the same analytical lens the chapter uses throughout to explain how a claim becomes a right.
Use the chapter's framework, not a fixed answer key: identify movements asking for a NEW right (not one already guaranteed), addressed to the state/society as an obligation. Categories to watch for in the news: environmental rights, tribal habitat/way-of-life rights, child-labour/children's-rights campaigns, right-to-livelihood/minimum-wage movements, and right-to-information/transparency movements — for each, note the claimant, the harm being addressed, and whether it rests on dignity, well-being, or both.
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