Arun Ferreira, a civil rights activist, spent four and a half years inside Maharashtra’s prisons because the police believed that he was a Maoist. He speaks of life inside prisons, of hierarchies behind bars and the ubiquity of torture in… Continue Reading →
DAILEKH, Nepal, Apr 5, 2012 (IPS) – Women in Nepal’s remote rural areas stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their men during the bloody 1996-2006 civil war that overthrew an oppressive monarchy, but many now battle domestic violence at home. Rachna Shahi was… Continue Reading →
Hindustan Times Bhilwara, April 04, 2012 Two weeks after Bhilwara district’s Guwardi village witnessed a case of “witch-hunt”, the local police stirred themselves to file an FIR. On March 17, a 50-year-old Dalit woman and her daughter-in-law were beaten up… Continue Reading →
EDITORIAL, The Hindu April 6, 2012 Don’t lose the plot now The continuing efforts to criminalise protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and portray all opposition to nuclear energy as anti-national must be unequivocally condemned. For over seven months,… Continue Reading →
Ex-staff spill the beans on Christy’s cheat code Nandini Chandrashekar, Bangalore, Apr 5, 2012, DHNS : Christy Friedgram Industries (CFI), the company under investigation by the Lokayukta police for fraudulent practices in the supply of supplementary nutritional food to anganwadis… Continue Reading →
March 31, 2012, Kamayani Bali Mahabal The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has recognized the harsh reality of malnutrition in India by saying “India‘s “unacceptably high” levels of child malnutrition are a “national shame”. Our State women and child welfare minister … Continue Reading →
Around 150-180 hysterectomies at Valley’s 40 private nursing homes every month alarms authorities Riyaz Wani Srinagar Rafiqa, 50, from Qamarwari locality of Srinagar has had a massive weight gain and undergoes wild mood swings—a source of constant trouble for her… Continue Reading →
by- – A.Muthukrishnan The CPIM and CPI are a part of the Konkan Bachao Samiti in Jaitapur which has a resolve of protesting against the world’s biggest nuclear complex which is coming up at Jaitapur. This Jaitapurnuclear plant will not only have safety issue’s but it’s going to make extinct the Alphonso… Continue Reading →
The Chief Minister of Odisha State, Naveen Pat naik Bhubaneswar-751001. Odisha, India March 23, 2012 We -human rights, labor, and civic organizations in Korea– are writing to you with our deep concern regarding the current attacks continuously made to villagers who… Continue Reading →
Idinthakarai Update March 22, 2012 The situation here is still grim. There are some 10,000 people from coastal and interior villages. Most of them are women including pregnant women and nursing women. I myself saw many nursing women feeding their… Continue Reading →
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