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Press Release – Statement on the unprecedented detention of CDRO team by police

Sanhati May 29, 2013 We strongly condemn the absolutely arbitrary and unprecedented action of the Jharkhand police administration in detaining eight members of a CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations) fact-finding team while they were addressing a press conference in Ranchi. The… Continue Reading →

Activists probing Maoists’ deaths detained #WTFnews

Ranchi, May 26, 2013 Anumeha Yadav Activists of the Coordinationof Democratic Rights Organisations at a Ranchi police station on Sunday. Photo: Manob Chowdhury Jharkhand on high-alert following Maoists attack on Congress… Continue Reading →

May 27, 2013 1

World listens to ‘Iron Lady of Jharkhand’ in the Big Apple

New York, May 25, 2013 Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu Photo: Narayan Lakshman Jharkhand adivasi rights activist Dayamani Barla receives the Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award from Suzanne Benally, executive director of Cultural Survival, an indigenous peoples’ rights organisation.Photo: Narayan Lakshman Dayamani… Continue Reading →

May 26, 2013 5

Press Release- Jharkhand Officials summoned for child right violations

PRESS NOTE National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned concerned officers of Government of Jharkhand to appear before it on 21st May, 2013 for non compliance with some recommendations of the Commission pertaining to child rights violations… Continue Reading →

May 22, 2013 0

Making Choices: The Rhetoric and The Reality #Gender #Vaw

By Sanjana Gaind, ultraviolet.in This is the third of a series of posts written from the experiences at CREA of implementing a program called “Count Me IN! It’s My Body: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Girls through Sports”…. Continue Reading →

May 17, 2013 0

Jharkhand – Questions over killing of student in ‘encounter’

GUMLA (JHARKHAND), May 6, 2013 Anumeha Yadav, The Hindu Family grapples with questions over the killing of 17-year-old Naveen by police in ‘encounter’ There had been an employees’ strike at the college since February. Mukesh Sahu, 21, a second-year B.Sc…. Continue Reading →

May 10, 2013 0

Letter to President of India- Protect Rights of Indigenous People or Shoot all of them

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Gladson Dungdung Jharkhand Human Rights Movement C/o-Mr. Suleman Odeya, Near Don Bosci ITC Gate, Khorha Toli, Kokar, Ranchi -834001. 0651-3242752 Email: [email protected] Ref: JHRM/PI/2013/01 Date: 01/05/2013 To, His Excellency, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan,… Continue Reading →

May 2, 2013 12

#India – Police detain Adivasi protesters as President lays foundation for Jindal power plant

ANUMEHA YADAV, GODDA (JHARKHAND), May 1, 2013 SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ The HinduVillagers Hopanmai Marandi (left) and Mary Hasda are among those detained at the Sundarpahari police station in Godda, Jharkhand, on Tuesday. Photo: Manob Chowdhury More than 50 Adivasi farmers, including women, were… Continue Reading →

May 1, 2013 8

Dayamani Barla Selected For Cultural Survival’s Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award #tribalrights #womenrights

By Cultural Survival 29 April, 2013 Countercurrents.org (April 29, 2013). Grassroots Indigenous rights heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to promote the rights of their peoples and protect their traditions, languages, and resources are critical to cultural… Continue Reading →

April 30, 2013 0

Ta(l)king sex beyond English #sexuality

By Meenu Pandey This is the second of a series of posts written from the experiences at CREA of implementing a program called “Count Me IN! It’s My Body: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Girls through Sports”. CREA is… Continue Reading →

April 24, 2013 1

-Bridge the Gap Bring the Change

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