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• Date: Dec 23, 2010
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is inviting views/suggestions from various individuals related to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on 'Issue of Licences and Allocation of 2G Spectrum.' All those desirous of sending their views/suggestion may send their written memoranda in Hindi/English to the Director (PAC&CS), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No. 401, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi 110001. For details you can also call 011-23034401, 23035236, or send an email at compac@sansad.nic.in. The last date for sending in the memoranda is within 15 days of the date of...
• Date: Dec 23, 2010
December 23 (Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances): Today, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (the Convention) enters into force. For the disappeared and their families, this is a historic moment, a cherished victory in the global struggle against this scourge of enforced disappearance.
The Convention is a legally-binding instrument protecting people from enforced disappearances and establishing the right of everyone not to be subjected from this crime. No circumstance whatsoever, be it a state...
• Date: Dec 22, 2010
(Association for India's Development): Association for India's Development (AID) is hopeful that the verdict to be delivered by the Raipur sessions court on December 24, 2010 in the trial of Dr. Binayak Sen will uphold justice. Internationally celebrated for his work on behalf of the poorest, and for his defence of human rights, Dr. Sen is being persecuted by the State of Chhattisgarh for speaking out against the violence perpetrated by the security forces and by the State-backed militia, Salwa Judum. Arrested in May 2007, Dr. Sen served two years in prison without...
• Date: Dec 22, 2010
(Asian Human Rights Commission) The 83rd Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress (INC), held in New Delhi has declared that eradicating corruption would be a priority for the INC and thus for the national government, formed under the banner of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and led by the INC. The President as well as other leaders of the INC stated in the meeting that corruption is an impediment to progress and democracy and it must be dealt with 'head-on'. Following suit, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also declared that it...
• Date: Dec 17, 2010
(Asian Human Rights Commission): The latest news by the WikiLeaks claims that India has systematically used torture to extract confessions and has allowed its armed forces to resort to brutal human rights abuses like extrajudicial executions and disappearances to instil fear, and thus control the population in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The report asserts that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was concerned about New Delhi's despicable tolerance of the issue and that the government practically did nothing to prevent torture and has...
• Date: Dec 17, 2010
(Asian Human Rights Commission): The simmering debate between three senior judges in India, involving the suspect in a criminal case and a former Union Minister from Tamilnadu state, Mr. A. Raja, and his alleged attempt to influence the court to obtain bail for the suspect with the assistance of the former Chairperson of the Tamilnadu and Pondicherry Bar Council, Mr. R. K. Chandramohan, has once again brought the lingering question of judicial independence and accountability in the country into the forefront of national debates. Of the three judges involved in the...
• Date: Dec 14, 2010
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its concern at the arrest of Noor Mohammed Bhatt, lecturer of English at Gandhi Memorial College, by the J&K police on 9 December 2010 under S 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and S 153 of RPC for setting an examination question paper considered as being ‘anti-national’ and ‘anti-establishment’. Facts of the case once again bring out that whatever be the public claims about J&K being an ‘integral’ part of India, the real situation suggests otherwise.
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• Date: Dec 14, 2010
(Asian Human Rights Commission): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) appreciates the effort taken by the Home Minister of India in undertaking a visit to Manipur. Manipur is one of the states in India with a poor human rights record. During the past three years the number of encounter killings reported from the state has steadily increased, until the state administration faced severe criticism for the public execution of two persons on July 23, 2009 by the state police. Mr. P. Chidambaram and a team of officers from the Union Home Ministry are visiting Manipur...
• Date: Dec 14, 2010
A day-long sit-in-demonstration will be held on the service road in front of West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) Office at Paribesh Bhavan, Salt Lake (near Beleghata Bypass crossing) on Thursday, 16 December 2010 between 12noon and 5pm.
You are well aware that sponge iron units in several districts of West Bengal have been causing environmental pollution and also devastating the life and livelihood of thousands inhabitants of nearby villages.
Exactly a year back, on 16 December 2009, scores of organisations and initiatives, including Nagarik Mancha,...
• Date: Dec 10, 2010
(Asian Human Rights Commission): The allegations of corruption involving a former Union Minister, some corporate entities, the judges of the Madras High Court and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India reported by the national media this week, in essence, indicates the state of affairs of the rule of law institutions in the world's largest democracy. In addition to widespread corruption, three other important issues that continued to negate the functioning framework of a mature administration essential for a democratic republic to perform are...
