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Documentary ‘Cotton For My Shroud’ on Vidarbha farmers bags National award

NAGPUR: “If a quarter million farmers kill themselves over a span of 16 years, then it is genocide and not suicide. The globalization of economies has given rise to a new form of agrarian warfare where seeds are the new… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release-Reading Soni Sori’s Letters from Prison – Video Montage Marks International Women’s Day

Wednesday, March 8, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <http://aidindia.org/> Press contacts: Vinay Bhat Cell: +1 412.527.7985 Kamayani BaliMahabal Cell: +91 98207.49204 Reading Soni Sori’s Letters from Prison Video Montage Marks International Women’s Day In a global show of solidarity marking the… Continue Reading →

Differently-abled people seen as threat by aviation security in India

Aarti Dhar,The  Hindu It’s an outright insult, says Disabled Rights Group The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) regulations say that there is high probability of differently-abled people carrying weapons, explosives and other dangerous materials with them, and therefore, there… Continue Reading →

NCPCR draws guideline to eliminate corporal punishments

  Aarti Dhar,TheHindu Suggests Corporal Punishment Monitoring Cells in every school With the number of incidents of schools practicing corporal punishments showing an increase, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked the schools to constitute special… Continue Reading →

Joint Statement on Police atrocities and state repression on anti -posco struggle

We strongly condemn the attack on and illegal abduction by the Odisha police of Umakanta Biswal, a famer belonging to Dhinkia village of Odisha, and an active member of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), that has been engaged over the… Continue Reading →

Tribal student at AIIMS hangs self

Durgesh Nandan Jha, TNN | Mar 5, 2012 NEW DELHI: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who hailed from a village in Rajasthan and was the second topper in the Scheduled Tribe category at… Continue Reading →

Feminism’s unfinished business

Ritu Menon | March 3, 2012, TOI, Crest Edition On any given day the Yahoo group Feminists India carries dozens of postings on dozens of issues, from protesting Vedanta‘s “support” of balwadis and anganwadis, to campaigning for tribal activist Soni… Continue Reading →

Inequality is the Issue – P.Sainath on World Economic Forum

The comforting thing about the sham wrestling ‘championships’ on television is that everybody knows they are a farce. Steroid-stuffed Cro-Magnons stomp the living daylights out of painkiller-primed Neanderthals. Good, unclean fun. The results are safely predictable. You should expect the… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release-Women’s Organisations Condemn the Arrest of Paraplegic woman in Jaipur

Dharna at the Vidhan Sabha on 1st March, 2012 Women’s Organisations Condemn the Arrest Of Seema who Is 80% Disabled And Hold A Protest Outside The Vidhan Sabha. Probably the First Case in the State where a Person Leading a… Continue Reading →

On the questionable legality of the NPR and the UID projects

Feb 29,2012 Dear Mr Raja On 13 December, 2011, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance presented its 42nd Report, on the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, to the Lok Sabha. It was laid before the Rajya Sabha on… Continue Reading →

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