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Cameroon Rape Victims Confront Legal Gauntlet

By Irene Zih Fon, January 25, 2012 Rape victims in Cameroon can get medical treatment at hospitals and file a police report to set a case in motion, but providing evidence to prove that rape occurred can be difficult. Others… Continue Reading →

NHRC plans draft legislation on rights of patients

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission is mulling to come out with a draft legislation that seeks to protect the rights of patients and ensure that standard treatment is made available to everyone. The Commission has also written to… Continue Reading →

SC pulls up Centre for prolonged detention of Pak prisoners

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Press Trust Of India    The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Union government for prolonged incarceration of several Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails despite their having completed their sentences. “There is total inaction and… Continue Reading →

Caste atrocity in Lathor: Over 50 Dalit homes burnt by upper castes

by-Jadumanilion Boudha & Dhammachari Ratnakumar An incident involving a small boy led to horrific caste violence in Lathor, Balangir district of Odisha, leaving 50 Dalit families homeless and destitute. On January 22, 2012, at around 3.00pm, Ganesh Suna, a 9th… Continue Reading →

Grave concerns over security laws in Kashmir

Two days into 2012, a student was killed and two more were injured in a village in North Kashmir when the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) guarding a hydroelectric plant opened fire on protesters, shattering a tenuous peace. In the… Continue Reading →

India & the sex selection conundrum

Published: Hindu, January 24, 2012 Farah Naqvi, A. K. Shiva Kumar Let us agree to go beyond billboard exhortations to ‘love the girl child.’ What was our immediate response to further decline in the child sex ratio in India? Within… Continue Reading →

Barrack-room surgery in Bihar’s backwaters

Shoumojit Banerjee in The  Hindu 23rd Jan 2012 The Kaparfora sterilisations expose the State administration’s tenuous hold over NGOs contracted for conducting family planning camps. About a fortnight ago, as the sun was setting late one cold Saturday afternoon, a… Continue Reading →

URGENT: Villagers Protest Against vedanta Red Mud Pond

Activist Satyabadi Naik’s shocking video of police crackdown on a peaceful protest by women of Rengopalli and other villages against Vedanta’s toxic Red Mud Pond in Lanjigarh. This video was recorded on 23 Jan 2012. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgIBmN7HCeA&feature=player_embedded] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FZX5DrccU&feature=player_embedded] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-dbJYTrdM&feature=player_embedded]

‘Make silicosis a notifiable disease’

  Special Report- The  Hindu Health facilities, adequate compensation must be provided Taking a serious note of the increasing silicosis-related deaths in the country, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended that silicosis be made a notifiable disease. Once… Continue Reading →

Despair can lead people to disastrous path: Dr Binayak Sen

BANGALORE – Speaking at the 6th Henry Volken Memorial lecture at Indian Social Institute in Bangalore Dr.Binayak Sen said that the weak has to develop internal strength to do politics otherwise the wide spread despair can lead people to disastrous… Continue Reading →

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