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• Date: Jan 17, 2011
(Association for Protection of Democratic Rights): A six member team from APDR reached Netai village of Lalgarh at 3 PM on 08th January, 2011 to investigate the incident of firing on unarmed villagers by Harmad Bahini on 7th January at village Netai of Lalgarh block, West Midnapur, West Bengal.
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• Date: Jan 11, 2011
(Human Rights Watch): The Indian parliament should immediately repeal the colonial-era sedition law, which local authorities are using to silence peaceful political dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The Indian government should drop sedition cases against prominent activists such as Dr. Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy, and others, Human Rights Watch said.
In two recent cases, in New Delhi and Chhattisgarh, the authorities have pursued sedition charges against peaceful activists, despite a longstanding Supreme Court ruling that prosecution under the sedition law...
• Date: Jan 11, 2011
(Human Rights Watch): Indian authorities should drop criminal proceedings against peaceful protesters who sought accountability for maternal deaths in a public hospital in Madhya Pradesh state, Human Rights Watch said today. District officials cracked down on protesters on December 28, 2010, even as the Indian government was celebrating its recent appointment to the new United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health.
About 1,000 people gathered peacefully on December 28 in the Barwani district to protest the high...
• Date: Jan 10, 2011
(Peoples Union for Democratic Rights): A spate of political killings in West Bengal, which in few months from now will hold state assembly elections, is a matter of deep concern for PUDR.
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• Date: Jan 5, 2011
(People's Union for Democratic Rights): The recent countrywide demonstrations against the unfair verdict in the Binayak Sen case have been really heartwarming. The demonstrations have brought many of us together, who feel enraged and upset over the judgment. Clearly, if our numbers continue to grow, we will soon be in a position of strength and will ensure the release of Binayak and many others.
The case against Binayak Sen has become a focal point to oppose the attempts by the state to criminalise civil rights activities. Yet, we strongly feel that in order to make...
• Date: Jan 4, 2011
Magic Lantern Foundation is a registered not-for-profit and has been working with culture and human rights since 1989. Currently we are readying for two film festivals in New Delhi. We are looking for two interns to start work immediately.
Interns will:
Assist with festival related tasks
Mange Magic Lantern's social media and websites
Hold workshops in colleges on the documentary practice as an invitation to the film festival
Help in general administration
Assist in writing and creating festival related publicity material
Coordinate festival logistics - from...
• Date: Jan 2, 2011
People's Union for Civil Liberties, strongly condemns Gujarat Government's campaign of calumny against and attempt to frame under false charges human rights defender Teesta Setlavad, of Citizens of Justice and Peace, lawyer M.M. Tirmizi, victims survivors of Lunwada massacre and media person Rahul Singh for exposing Gujarat Police's callousness and cruelty in the Lunwada massacre and mass burial case.
Teesta Setalvad, her organisation CJP and lawyer Tirmizi with the help of the kin of the victim were instrumental in getting the High Court 2006 and then Supreme Court orders in 2008,...
• Date: Jan 1, 2011
(Asian Human Rights Commission): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning a concocted criminal case registered against a journalist in India, Mr. Rahul Singh, for reporting a mass grave in Panderwada village within Panchmahal district of Gujarat. In December 2005, Rahul came to know about the mass grave in Panderwada from the local human rights activists. The mass grave reportedly had the remains of 21 victims of the 2002 Gujarat genocide. Rahul reported the news about the exhumation of human remains by the victims' family members...
• Date: Jan 1, 2011
The controversial Saxena Committee on the Forest Rights Act has submitted its report, which has finally been made public. We know that this report will be projected as pro-people and pro-rights. But this report will be most useful to those who set it up – a Ministry and a forest bureaucracy [1] that wants more power, while presenting a facade of being sensitive and pro-people. Here are some reasons why.
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• Date: Dec 25, 2010
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Mumbai, has sent the appended open letter to the Charity Commsioner of the city over treatment for patients from weaker sections.
To
The Charity Commissioner, Office of the Charity Commissioner,
Maharashtra State, Mumbai, 3rd floor, 83, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400 018.
Dear Sir
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) , Mumbai is shocked to know that several public trust hospitals from the city have written to the Charity Commissioner claiming that they are facing a financially demanding situation to treat patients from the weaker sections ( Refer article...
