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#India – Tales told by the anti-terrorism squad, signifying nothing #humanrights

  Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 9:00 IST | Agency: DNA Jyoti Punwani It’s tough to deny facts brought to light by modern technology.  It’s tough to deny facts brought to light by modern technology. The Dhule police were felled by… Continue Reading →

Vedanta-Sterlite – Dangerous by Design #CSR #Humanrightsviolations

 Nityanand Jayaraman MARCH 28, 2013  at kafila.org Guest Post by  NITYANAND JAYARAMAN  A toxic hotspot in the backyard of a house in Therkuveerapandiapuram, a village adjoining the Sterlite factory.  Dangerous levels of iron and arsenic were found in the soil here. (Picture… Continue Reading →

#India – Bombay High Court raps Maharshtra for custodial deaths #torture #humanrights

Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Mar 23, 2013, 03.32 AM IST MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday pulled up the state government for repeated instances of custodial deaths and asked what it was doing to prevent them. A division bench of Justice A M… Continue Reading →

No escape from caste prejudice even in UK #discrimination #humanrights

ByAnahita Mukherji, TNN | Mar 16, 2013, Many Indians in the work place say they have faced a great deal of harassment from other Indians on grounds of caste. LONDON: If you happen to be of Dalit origin, or from the so-called lower… Continue Reading →

‘I was discriminated against because I am Muslim’ #humanrights

  Express news service  In 2008, a youth was arrested from my neighbourhood in Hubli for alleged links with the Student Islamic Movement of India. He was studying to be a doctor and had no history of indiscipline or run-ins… Continue Reading →

Bombing in POSCO Area:When we don’t question #humanrights #stateterror

It is not even a month old when armed police force invaded Govindapur to forcibly acquire land for POSCO. Since February 3, 2013 this area has been turned in to an armed police camp. Excepting pro-posco goons no one can… Continue Reading →

Labour MP John McDonnell urges India to end the #deathpenalty #humanrights

ELIZABETH BARRETT , TIM SCULTHORPE THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013, The Independent The British Government should use “every mechanism of communication” to urge India to end the death penalty, a Labour MP has said. John McDonnell said Britain was “uniquely placed” with its… Continue Reading →

How Israel gets away with Torturing Palestinians To Death #humanrights

By Charlotte Silver 26 February, 2013 Al-Jazeera Six days after Arafat Jaradat was arrested by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet, he was dead. Between the date of his arrest – February 18 – and the day of his… Continue Reading →

#India- Abolish the #deathpenalty- #Humanrights

Rajeev Dhavan – India Today  TAGS: Afzal Guru | Death penalty | Congress |Sushilkumar Shinde | BJP |Veerappan Afzal Guru When people kill it is homicide. When the State hangs, it is legicide. When terrorists kill, it is collective murder.When terrorists are killed, it is justified as counter-terrorism. When… Continue Reading →

Land rights activists angered as India’s forest act undermined #humanrights

The government’s decision to allow major infrastructure projects to go ahead without obtaining consent for forest clearance paves the way for the violation of village land rights, say rights groups Matthew Newsome Friday 15 February 2013 guardian.co.uk —- Land and… Continue Reading →

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