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#India – Adivasis and the New Land Acquisition Act #Tribals #Indigenous #mustread

Vol – XLVIII No. 41, October 12, 2013 | Chitrangada Choudhury, EPW Much work remains to be done if the new Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act has to mark a meaningful shift for India’s adivasi communities. Chitrangada Choudhury ([email protected]) Chitrangada Choudhury… Continue Reading →

Remembering Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow – Abolish #Deathpenalty #mustread

A landmark in the fight against capital punishment in the US By Shannon Jones The United States remains one of the few advanced industrialized countries in the world that still practices capital punishment. Since the US Supreme Court reinstated the… Continue Reading →

#India SC says govt can’t ask for #Aadhaar #UID for data without legal backing #mustread

Satya Prakash, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, October 10, 2013 Hit hard by the Supreme Court and confusion, the plan to turn you into a number on government computers has come a cropper — at least for now. It began with much… Continue Reading →

#India – Tribals force cancellation of public hearing for BCCL’s Dhanbad coal mines

Author(s): Alok Gupta [1] Issue Date: 2013-10-8 They were not informed about the hearing which was organized in officers’ club, far from Bharat Coking Coal Limited’s project site Tribal people from 14 villages of Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district wore black ribbons around… Continue Reading →

#Pakistan – SC moved to convert 450 #deathpenalty into imprisonment #AbolishDP #mustread

  Sohail Khan Thursday, October 10, 2013, Agencies   ISLAMABAD: A constitutional petition was filed in the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday seeking conversion of 450 prisoners’ death penalty into imprisonment by cancelling their death warrants.   Dr Muhammad Aslam… Continue Reading →

#India must commute #deathpenalty of all prisoners at risk of Execution #AbolishDP

World Day against Death Penalty:  By PARMJIT SINGH Published: October 10, 2013  New Delhi, India (October 10, 2013): According to a press statement sent to the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) by the Amnesty International India [a]t least 23 people in India… Continue Reading →

#India- 124 Dalit women filed complaints and only 1 conviction in Tamil Nadu #Vaw #WTFnews

124 dalit plaints, only 1 conviction: NGO By Express News Service – MADURAI Published: 09th October 2013 07:45 AM It took a lot of courage for 124 Dalit women to shed off inhibition and come forward to file police complaints against Caste… Continue Reading →

#India – Niyamraja’s Tribals won’t bow to #Vedanta #indigenous #mustread

Dilip SatapathyLanjigarh  October 8, 2013 BS,   The battle is won but celebrations are awaited – that sums up the mood of tribals who unanimously rejected the plan to mine bauxite on Odisha‘s Niyamgiri hills during the course of 12 gram sabhas held here… Continue Reading →

Muzaffarnagar Riots: Rape accused roam freely as victim hides in refugee camp #Vaw #WTFnews

Although investigators are yet to question any of the men named in the five FIRs of gangrape during the Muzaffarnagar riots, TEHELKA traced five people accused in two different cases Deevakar Anand October 6, 2013   Photo: PTI Despite national… Continue Reading →

Raped, Impregnated and Imprisoned: Qatar’s Forgotten Workers #Vaw #mustread

Kerry Ann Akers Posted: 07/10/2013 00:00 Sexual violence and imprisonment are facts of life for many of Qatar’s women workers. Largely women from Nepal, India and the Philippines, Qatar’s domestic workers face isolation and exploitation in the world’s richest country…. Continue Reading →

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