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#Jharkhand Activist Dayamani Barla gets bail #goodnews

ANUMEHA YADAV, The hIndu, Dec 22,2012 She has been in jail for over two months for leading protests related to land acquisition The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to activist Dayamani Barla, who has been in jail for… Continue Reading →

Faking Happiness- Vedanta Khushi vs Vedanta ki Vedana #socialmedia #CSR

Corporate mining giant  Vedanta has been violating the human rights of tribals in Odisha for  many  years now. The Dongria Kondhs, a primitive tribe, has been forced to relinquish their rights over their homeland, and cultural and livelihood resources to accommodate… Continue Reading →

A Conversation With: Human Rights Activist Binayak Sen

By MALAVIKA VYAWAHARE, NYtimes Courtesy of The Gandhi FoundationDr. Binayak Sen. Binayak Sen, 62, is no ordinary doctor. Few doctors, after all, spend three decades working in a region threatened by what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the “single biggest internal… Continue Reading →

Starving for Recognition: The Plight of Palestinian Political Prisoners

Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:00 By Pam Bailey, Truthout | Op-Ed   Palestinian and israeli protesters demonstrate in support of hunger striking prisoners. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here… Continue Reading →

#India Tribal undertrials cry injustice, go on hunger strike #protest

DNA, Mumbai- Yogesh Pawar- Dec 16, 2012 Around 50 adivasis of Gadchiroli district incarcerated at the Nagpur central prison as political prisoners have commenced a hunger strike from December 10, which is International Human Rights Day. For the past two… Continue Reading →

#India -Reject Amendments to Counter terrorism Law

December 14, 2012, HumanRights Watch While India has a responsibility to protect citizens from terror attacks, the counterterrorism law has long been abused to detain suspects for excessive periods, file charges on fabricated evidence, and ban organizations without due process… Continue Reading →

Mowgli meets the Maoists: Satya Sagar #mustread

DECEMBER 15, 2012 Guest post by SATYA SAGAR, Kafila.org Hello folks! I need your help and hence this appeal to all of you! I have been a journalist for a long time but never managed to write a full book on… Continue Reading →

“Aadhaar” of Direct Cash Transfer is more of assumptions, less of ground-level realities #UID #MUSTREAD

14 DEC, 2012, The government announced that from January 2013, 51 districts of the country would be subjected to Aadhaar– based direct cash transfers (DCT). We need some basic answers before we get to term the initiative as a game-changer…. Continue Reading →

Amnesty asks India to commute Guru’s death sentence #deathpenalty

  London, December 14 (KMS: The human rights watchdog, Amnesty International has expressed concern over the fate of mercy petitions including that of a Kashmir youth, Afzal Guru whose sentence, according to the Amnesty, by a special court under the… Continue Reading →

#India- Gadchiroli where 16 panchayat leaders killed, and over 200 others forced to quit

Inside the republic of fear With at least 16 panchayat leaders killed, and over 200 others forced to quit this year, TEHELKA travels to Gadchiroli to gauge the stranglehold of the Naxals on the region Revati LaulMore by the author… Continue Reading →

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