Day July 30, 2014
By Many Authors Source: The Lancet July 30, 2014 By Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, and Swee Ang on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and… Continue Reading →
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notices to Madhya Pradesh government following reports of a dalit woman sarpanch being denied the right to hoist the national flag. “The NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a dalit woman… Continue Reading →
Pinak Priya Bhattacharya & Jayanta Gupta,TNN | Jul 30, 2014, Over the past decade and a half, more than 1,000 garden workers and their family members have died in the sprawling but decaying tea estates of Dooars, say NGO workers. JALPAIGURI/ALIPURDUAR: The… Continue Reading →
THE NIYAMGIRI MOVEMENT AS A LANDMARK OF DEMOCRATIC PROCESS By Felix Padel Vikalp Sangam The Gram Sabhas that took place in a dozen villages in Niyamgiri in July-August 2013, in compliance with a Supreme Court Judgement in April, show India’s democratic process… Continue Reading →
TNN | Jul 30, 2014, 01.06 AM IST BHOPAL: Barely a month after the controversy over a leaked Intelligence Bureau (IB) report describing Greenpeace as “a threat to national economic security”, Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday raided the NGO’s office at… Continue Reading →
By Gokul Vannan MADURAI :The row over the elopement of a caste Hindu girl with a dalit youth at Usilampatti took a new twist with the girl being sent with her parents. Social activists are furious over the development and accused… Continue Reading →
31st July 2014 (Thurs) @ 2.30PM-4PM,Venue: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi (Nearest Metro Station : Jorbagh on yellow line) ATTN LONDON = 1ST August, 2.pm Join the protest from 2pm onwards outside… Continue Reading →
Rohtak, July 29 With intervention of the state women’s commission, higher police authorities, and the media, the police will reinvestigate the gangrape case of a Dalit woman of Kahnaur village in the district. The woman and her husband have alleged… Continue Reading →
28JUL (Prefatory Note: Posted here is a Joint Declaration of international law experts from around the world who are listed below as endorsers. I am among the endorsers, and the text was initially drafted by several international law scholars. We… Continue Reading →
PALESTINE / ISRAEL, 28 July 2014 by Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service [Prefatory Note: “Palestine’s Dilemma: To Go or Not to Go to the International Criminal Court” was published on July 13, 2014 on the website of Middle East… Continue Reading →