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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 →

Camera Obscura and the manufacture of happiness- Vedanta

Aman Sethi and Priscilla Jebaraj, march 6, The HIndu Hostile online campaign takes some of the shine off Vedanta‘s promotionals. An advertisement flooding airwaves across the country would have you believe that a company called Vedanta is a creating a… Continue Reading →

Fearless women: Sherry Rehman, Shehrbano Taseer feature on world women list

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, Published: March 5, 2012 Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman and daughter of slain Punjab governor Shehrbano Taseer, have featured on The Daily Beast (Newsweek) list of 150 fearless women. The list, which does not offer… Continue Reading →

Hunger strike only option to get basic human rights in Prison– Arun Ferreira

Arun Ferriera who spent four years in prison shares his experinces of torture and struggle for human rights inside prison. He was speaking at the  Human Rights Education Seminar, at St Pius College, organised by the South Asian Human righst education… Continue Reading →

Vedanta’s PR campaign backfires as Bollywood celebs pull out

A bid by British mining giant Vedanta Resources to repair its tarnished international reputation has backfired after two major Bollywood celebrities withdrew from a film competition supposed to show the ‘happiness’ the company creates. Renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal and Bollywood… Continue Reading →

National Yatra in Support of Anti-Kudankulam NPP agitation – March 15-16, 2012

APPEAL: Kudankulam Chalo! Let Us All March To Kudankulam!! Join the National Yatra to Kudankulam, March 15-16, 2012 Appeal issued on behalf of Admiral Ramdas, Lalita Ramdas, Praful Bidwai, Prof. Banwarilal Sharma, Fr. Thomas Kocherry, Justice Kolse Patil, Vaishali Patil,… Continue Reading →

Corporate Abuse Abroad, a Path to Justice Here

By LINCOLN CAPLAN, Published: March 3, 2012 , NYTIMES Should foreigners be allowed to use American courts to sue foreign corporations for human rights atrocities committed abroad?  Charles Wiwa in Chicago last month. He is one of the Nigerians trying… Continue Reading →

Marching Orders

Marching Orders Shobhan Saxena, TNN | Mar 4, 2012, When a backpacker is woken up by the police in the middle of the night, forced to reveal the password of his laptop, and put on a flight toGermany because he… 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 →

Pakistan- Run for your life

By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: March 4, 2012 Eighteen bloodied bodies, shot Gestapo-style, lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, demanding that all 117 persons on board alight.Those with Shia sounding… Continue Reading →

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