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Day December 12, 2013

#India – Say No To Social Sector Budget Cuts

  Recent announcements about budget cuts in the social sector have been extremely alarming. In a scenario of extremely low allocations for social sector expenditure in the first place, these cuts amount to an assault on the human rights of… Continue Reading →

India’s Reversal on Gay Rights

      By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, NYT   Published: December 11, 2013   India’s Supreme Court issued a disgraceful ruling against human rights in reinstating a law that bans gay sex. On Wednesday, the court reversed a landmark 2009 decision by the Delhi High… Continue Reading →

WE DISSENT – the unreason of the Supreme Court in the 377 judgment

We Dissent A preliminary walk through the unreason of the Supreme Court in the 377 judgment by SIDDHARTH NARRAIN We hope to see many more pieces which exposes the judgment for what it is- an example of judicial non application of… Continue Reading →

Press Release – PUCL’s Statement on SC Judgment reversing Naaz ruling of Delhi High Court

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES  270-A, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014                              PP FAX 4215 1459 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Prof. Prabhakar Sinha; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh E.mail: [email protected][email protected]Continue Reading →

#India – Gay but not Happy #Sec377 #LGBT #Poem

    By-  Ernest Flanagan     I’m may be ‘gay’ but I’m not happy   I can’t be happy if I’m not ‘gay’   With the latest ‘S. C.’ ruling   The law can put me away    … Continue Reading →

World’s Queer Take – LGB, TRANS AND INTERSEX RIGHTS #LGBT

Legal | 114 | Europe, Majority Americas, Parts of Middle and south Africa, Middle and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand Illegal | 76 | Most of Africa, Middle East and South Asia Status Unclear | 1 | Iraq Punishable with death penalty | 5… Continue Reading →

#India – Gay sex: There’s room for review #Sec377 #LGBT

Manoj Mitta,TNN | Dec 12, 2013, 02.27 AM IST NEW DELHI: The last time the Supreme Court hit global headlines was in the Novartis case in April when it raised the bar for patents and made a life saving drug more accessible to cancer… Continue Reading →

#India- Dictatorship of Narendra Modi Rules- #Censorship by Moditva

Last week some friends found this link on the internet in a newspaper no less important that The Economic Times. Click there and the article was removed? Guess why ? https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dnFe9EA_4G8U1eM&hl=en&ned=in Because here is what it said….Read on… Is Modi… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE – 1 of 148 Maruti Suzuki workers arrested gets bail after 11months

Imaan Khan, Provisional Working Committee member, Maruti Suzuki Workers Union, got bail in a ruling by the Punjab&Haryana High Court  yesterday. He is the only one among 149 arrested workers who has received bail since 18 July 2012, given the… Continue Reading →

#India – Asaram Bapu’s son Narayan Sai has admitted to rape charges #Vaw

Indian Express, Surat, Thu Dec 12 2013 Controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu‘s son Narayan Saihas “more or less” accepted the rape allegations levelled against him by a woman, police claimed on Wednesday. “During our intense questioning, Sai has more or less accepted the rape… Continue Reading →

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