Category Minority Rights
POSTED ON APRIL 27, 2021 The Editors Guild of India on Monday said it is deeply disturbed by reports of “inhuman treatment” being meted out to Siddique Kappan, a journalist from Kerala who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police… Continue Reading →
The case was registered after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) took suo motu cognizance of the matter, dating back to the passage of the CAA in Parliament in December 2019. Written by Santosh Singh | Patna |Updated: April… Continue Reading →
by Sankar Ray, April 9, 2021 In response to an outpouring of threats of violence by reactionary elements in Pakistan against writer Amar Jaleel after an old video of him reciting one of his short stories went viral for being… Continue Reading →
KALPANA KANNABIRAN ‘This unfinished Sisyphean struggle has not made me tire of it but I have been spared of the futile struggle with which Sisyphus was condemned; mine has been the struggle for a better world and the struggle is… Continue Reading →
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: A group of Hindu radicals has forced Catholic nuns out of a train after accusing them of indulging in religious conversion. Two members of the Sacred Heart congregation were on March 19 traveling to Odisha from… Continue Reading →
Hindutva hardliners accused the Christians of conversions, when they were praying at a house church in Dantewada districtSabrangindia17 Mar 2021 Eight Christians were injured and hospitalised in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, after being attacked by a mob of alleged Hindutva radicals…. Continue Reading →
By Mandira Nayar March 21, 2021 Past the Parsi hostel for women in Worli, through a narrow opening almost down a rabbit hole, lies the once-slum colony of Mayanagar. The birthplace of the Dalit Panthers in the 1970s has now been… Continue Reading →
India’s civil rights network, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), in a statement on the occasion of well-known gender rights leader Savitribai Phule’s 124th death anniversary, being observed as part of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections (March 7… Continue Reading →
Young labour rights leader Nodeep Kaur, who shot into prominence after the police controversially arrested her on the Delh-Haryana borders where she was organising workers’ support for the protesting farmers, has said that one of the most pressing issues today… Continue Reading →
India’s 83-year-old protesting grandmother and the warrior queen who inspires her. By Tavleen Tarrant8 Mar 2021 When asked which woman she most admires, Bilkis, the notorious “Dadi” of Shaheen Bagh, replies without hesitation: “Rani Ki Jhansi” (Queen of Jhansi). India’s warrior… Continue Reading →