Tag Human Rights
The Statesman 02 Jul 2013 The aadhaar project has become the bane of average Indians, threatening their access to all manner of services. basic questions have sometimes been asked and almost never been answered, says Usha Ramanathan, in… Continue Reading →
Life partner of my first friend from Pakistan is no more As I opened the Facebook page of Aisha Gazdar to share Neela Bhagwat’ s classical rendition of Faiz poem, “Bol” As her page slowly opened, I wondered why She… Continue Reading →
from Ieft are: Mosa Mundi, Rajaram Das, Xd, Indu Iaguri, John Barjo — atOut side Chaibasa District Court Singhbhum Jharkhand India Xavier Dias The Noamundi five have been acquittedon 29th June 2013 by the Chaibasa Court In 1991 eighteen of… Continue Reading →
Rising hemlines lead to rising TRPs. Aradhna Wal examines a commercial news industry committed to sleaze, to lechery and to shaming young women There’s something rotten in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. And it seems the Kannada and Telugu news channels have identified… Continue Reading →
SUVOJIT BAGCHI, The Hindu, Raipur June 28,2013 Advocate from central Chhattisgarh has been slapped with the same charges that of her clients Rarely in judicial history has an advocate been slapped with the same charges as that of her clients…. Continue Reading →
Illustration by Megha Roy Talukdar | Dev Kabir Malik Design Police conduct, elite reaction and the manner in which this story was reported illustrate how hard it is for a poor woman to accuse a privileged man of rape in… Continue Reading →
Recent Arrests, Physical Attacks Require Strong Diplomatic Response JUNE 19, 2013, HRW Enlarge Rights activist Nguyen Hoang Vi distributing Universal Declaration of Human Rights to people on May 5 at April 30 park. © Dan Lam Bao 2013 Vietnam’s strategy… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, June 20, 2013 Mohammad Ali Accuses police investigations of being a “farce, pro-management” A year after violence broke out at Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar, in which company HR manager Awanish Dev died and several… Continue Reading →
Badapada: Badapada: the jailed women and children tell their story 19th June. This report, directly from a Foil Vedanta team on the ground in Niyamgiri, tells a shocking story of the month long imprisonment of a group of Dalit women… Continue Reading →
HYDERABAD, June 13, 2013 Staff Reporter, The Hindu Urban housing activists under the banner of the Campaign for Housing and Tenurial Rights (CHATRI) sought immediate enactment of property rights for slum dwellers as envisaged in the Rajiv Awas Yojana guidelines. At… Continue Reading →