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Fact Finding-Killing of civilians at Bhaliaguda in Odisha

23-11-2012, Press Release   Following media reports of an encounter between the police and Maoists in Gajapathi district of Odisha on November 14 leading to the death of 5 Maoists, a team of the Human Rights Forum (HRF) enquired into… Continue Reading →

#India- #Rajasthan panchayat bars girls from using mobile phones #censorship #WTFnews

Nov 1, 2012, PTI Jaipur: A community panchayat in Rajasthan has unanimously favoured prohibiting girls from using personal mobile phones in order to ensure that they do not get involved with boys. Alarmed by the case of a girl who eloped… Continue Reading →

After Caste panchayat strips, thrashes woman, lover- 8 arrested in Jaipur

  Eight held for stripping of woman, CM orders probe TNN | Jul 24, 2012, 04.18AM IST JAIPUR: A day after a married woman and her paramour were tied to a tree, stripped and severely beaten for nearly three hours… Continue Reading →

Centre Proposes Six Months Advance Allocation of PDS Grains #Goodnews

New Delhi: The central government on Thursday decided to allow states to lift and distribute six months’ quota of food grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in one go. The decision has been taken in view of its granaries… Continue Reading →

Karnataka Khap panchayat ostracises 16-year-old pregnant Dalit girl

  Bannisorige village elders upset that she had an affair with a lower caste boy, thus “offending the family and the village” Imran Khan  Bengaluru  May 2, 20120–A khap panchayat in Karnataka has ostracised a 16-year-old Dalit girl for getting… Continue Reading →

Man commits suicide after wife’s sterilization

Suchandana Gupta | Apr 27, 2012  BHOPAL: The sterilization fiasco in Madhya Pradesh refuses to die down. Lamenting the decision of making his wife undergo sterilization two months ago, a 35-year-old man, father of six daughters committed suicide in Betul district on Wednesday. His… Continue Reading →

” Mining “greatest Threat to Tribals says Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo

HYDERABAD: Terming mining as the “greatest threat” faced by the tribal community in last two decades, Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has asked the youths selected under an ambitious programme to create awareness among the forest dwellers about their… Continue Reading →

Dalits denied water in K’pada village

Monday, 09 April 2012  PNS | KENDRAPADA Dalit ward in Ghagara gram panchayat under Nikirai police limits was denied Government pipe water facility by the sarpanch who took the decision at the behest of her father because many residents of… Continue Reading →

Signature campaign against draft Indian National Water Policy 2012

Join People’s Campaign for Right to Water-Karnataka in opposing Draft National Water Policy 2012 prepared by Ministry of Water Resources and demand its immediate withdrawal. Water is a life and precious resource, which should be carefully conserved and available for… Continue Reading →

Medha Patkar Refuses Basava Award

Lokshakti Abhiyan Begins its 4th Phase with Lokmanch in Mumbai *New Delhi, February 8* : “It would have been an honour to receive this [Basava] award in the name of revolutionary saint poet, philosopher Shri Basaveshwara of 12th century who… Continue Reading →

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