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#Mumbairiots – Two decades on, the inconvinient truth #mustread

Meena Menon, The Hindu _ The less privileged survivors of the 1993 Mumbai riots should not be deprived of justice on the grounds that old wounds will be reopened It is 20 years since two cataclysmic events shook Bombay now… Continue Reading →

IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Eclipsing Women’s Rights: Sexual Harassment at Sun TV # Vaw

PRESS STATEMENT: 28 March 2013 NWMI demands immediate reinstatement of Woman Journalist The Network of Women in Media, India, an independent forum of media professionals across the country condemns the continued victimisation of a complainant of sexual harassment, and demands… Continue Reading →

#India- Nuclear radiation impact being ignored? #disability #healthcare

Date: 24 March 2013 Dilnaaz Boga, March 24, 2013 , DNA On his recent visit to Mumbai, Nobel Laureate Dr John Byrne, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, said that every society has to make a basic decision as far… Continue Reading →

Violation of law in land allotted to tribal people, claims study on Forest Rights Act

MEENA MENON, The Hindu,  mUMBAI mARCH 25,2013  Sloppy implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) has resulted in large tracts of forests being cut down and claimed as cultivated land in Maharashtra, according to a study. Data shows that in… Continue Reading →

Mamata Banerjee links rise in rape cases to population increase #Vaw #WTFnews

PTI/ IANS  : Kolkata, Fri Mar 22 2013, 17:43 hrs   West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today linked rising cases of rapes to increase in the population, while claiming that there were only 45 such cases till November 2012 in… Continue Reading →

#India – Bombay High Court raps Maharshtra for custodial deaths #torture #humanrights

Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Mar 23, 2013, 03.32 AM IST MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday pulled up the state government for repeated instances of custodial deaths and asked what it was doing to prevent them. A division bench of Justice A M… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE- Urgent actions regarding Health services and Food security in Maharashtra

Anna Adhikar Abhiyan (AAA) is a network of about 100 organizations across Maharashtra, campaigning on the right to food security and sovereignty while Jan Arogya Abhiyan(JAA) is the state level campaign platform working for Health rights of people in Maharashtra since over… Continue Reading →

India upholds #deathpenalty over 1993 Mumbai blasts, SanjayDutt gets 5 years in Jail

March 21, 2013 1By Ammu Kannampilly In this photograph taken on July 31, 2007, Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt (L) is frisked by a policeman as he arrives for sentencing at the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) – TADA court in… Continue Reading →

Bombay High Court-‘File reply on safety concerns about UID’ #Aadhaar

  Rosy Sequereia, TNN March 19,2013   MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Unique Identification Authority of India and the Centre to decide on a representation questioning the lack of safeguards in Aadhar cards. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit… Continue Reading →

Bombay High Court PIL regardings aftey issues and THE ORDER r #Aadhaar #UID

March 18 , 2013, Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Mumbai  The Bombay High Court  today  directed the Unique Identification Authority of India and Central government to decide within three months  on a representation questioning the lack of safeguards in the Aadhaar card and UID . The Court… Continue Reading →

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