HAVE WE FAILED THE ROHINGYA?
June 20, 2018 By: Palak Chaudhari “yeh lo Rohingya ka bacha, photo le lo iska, sabko Rohingya ka bacha ka hi photo lena hota hai na.”(Here, this is the child of a Rohingya! Go ahead take a photo, everyone just wants to take pictures of a Rohingya child).
For 74 Indian activists, the punishment for seeking the truth has been death
(www.businessinsider.in) 68 Right to Information (RTI) activists have been killed since 2005, while 6 have committed suicide, according to the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.There is no law to protect activists or to prevent their personal details from falling into the wrong hands.
Sterlite/Vedanta, Coal India and POSCO are among 17 Indian companies blacklisted by Norway from investment of its pension funds
Image courtesy: www.thehindu.com June 01, 2018 By: Venkatesh Nayak Readers may recall the gory incidents that took place at Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in Tamil Nadu in the southern part of India on 22 May, 2018.
Time to Raise the bar
(mydigitalfc.com) By Madhurima Dhanuka The recent extradition hearings in the UK of alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla and liquor baron Vijay Mallya have highlighted the violence and overcrowding in Indian prisons.
For Haryana Police, the Holy Cow Is an Excuse for Extra-Judicial Killings
May 10, 2018 (thewire.in) Nuh (Haryana): On the wintry night of December 6, 2017, as Shareef lay on the bed in his courtyard in Salaheri village in Nuh, flashes of memory from 25 years ago kept disrupting his sleep.
India: Reject death penalty for child rape cases, focus on ending impunity for sexual violence
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organizations in India Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and People’s Watch New Delhi, Paris 4 May 2018: The Indian Parliament should reject a Cabinet ordinance that would introduce the death penalt
Denial of sanction to prosecute defence personnel under J&KAFSPA: Defence Ministry and Indian Army deny they hold case-related records and procedural information
Image courtesy: https://www.indiatimes.com/ Last week, there was both good news and "not so good" news on the AFSPA front across the country.
Strangers Of The Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India's Northeast (1994)
Hazarika sheds light on numerous issues that are currently facing the states in North-east India through a collection of facts, and personal experiences.
Flyer -Undertrial Review Committee
PrisonsinIndiaarechronicallyovercrowded.Sixty-sevenpercentoftheprisonpopulationcomprisesundertrials–thosewhoareawaitingorundergoingtrialandnotyetprovenguilty.ThisneedsrepairandUnderTrialReviewCommittee(UTRC)isoneoversightmechanismwhichcanaddressthis.
Government Orders
In 2006, the Supreme Court of India issued 7 directives on police reforms in Prakash Singh & ors versus Union of India & Ors. States have either passed new Police Acts or issued Government Orders/Notifications to implement the directives.