-Bridge the Gap Bring the Change

Tag Human Rights

Drug trials : Madhya Pradesh chief secretary fails to report to NHRC

 Feb1, 2012, Asish Gaur TOI INDORE : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)’s order to the Madhya Pradesh chief secretary to report to it the details of the controversial human drug trials in Indore, has run into a procedural wall…. Continue Reading →

India’s Rural Angels: Village Midwives

Traditional midwives if supported with modern training can make a significant difference to maternal health in India. By Soma Mukhopadhyay It was a dark night on 31 December 2011 when our youth were celebrating their New Year’s eve with light… Continue Reading →

Ethical hacker tells how to beat censorship

    Ask Mr Ankit Fadia, the 26-year-old ethical hacker, to sign his book for you, he would scribble ‘Happy Hacking’ before signing it. For him, hacking is ethical and a tool to settle scores if someone restricts your freedom…. Continue Reading →

Censorship at Symbiosis: See no Kashmir, hear no Kashmir, speak no Kashmir

By Shivam Vij For the past four years, a handful of Kashmiri Pandits and right-wing activists have shut down numerous screenings of Sanjay Kak’s Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom (2007). The most recent cancellation by Symbiosis College of Arts and… Continue Reading →

What Twitter’s New Censorship Policy Means for Human Rights

Twitter dropped quite the shocker last week when it declared its new policy to remove tweets in certain countries to abide by specific national laws. While a tweet will remain visible to the rest of the world, specific messages will… Continue Reading →

In the hurry to meet targets, UIDAI is missing its goals

  Lost Identity- Prabha Jagannathan Feb1, 2012- The Week The division among economists and social activists over whether the Unique Identity (UID) programme, or Aadhaar, will streamline the government’s social sector and welfare programme roadmap or disrupt it seems to… Continue Reading →

Ghatkopar’s Ramabai Nagar: Where the Republic still lives

Feb 2, 2012,  By Javed Iqbal, Mumbai, DNA Early on the morning of July 11, 1997, at Ramabai Nagar in Ghatkopar, a woman claimed to see the statue of iconic leader BR Ambedkar desecrated. Within a few hours, angry Dalits… Continue Reading →

India Edging Maoists From Mineral-Laden Land, Chidambaram Says

Indian police for years have abused civilians in the fight against the Maoists, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. While India’s Supreme Court in October ordered an independent probe into allegations that police in Chhattisgarh tortured and sexually assaulted… Continue Reading →

Blood Stains in Jindal Steel, Orissa. 25th January 2012

See what happens to displaced villagers who protest against Jindal Steel in Angul, Orissa. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tU7uphTnLw&feature=email]

India’s ID plan: An end to its inept bureaucracy or an Orwellian nightmare?

    Eric Randolph Feb 1, 2012 NEW DELHI– A plan to provide each of India’s 1.2 billion citizens with a unique identification number has been praised as an essential programme to impose some efficiency on India’s infamously inept bureaucracy…. Continue Reading →

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 Kractivism — Powered by WordPress

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑