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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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]
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 →
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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