आदिवासी
November 19, 2016
The NHRC has summoned the Chief Secretary of Government of Chhattisgarh and IGP, Bastar to explain the allegations of hostility and abuse of power against Human Rights Defenders
Bastar IG S.R.P. Kalluri (centre). Image: PTI
The National Human Rights Commission has noted and taken suo motu cognizance of "the nationwide outcry and protest on IG of Bastar Range Shri S.R.P. Kalluri for...
November 16, 2016
The registration of grave charges of murder and criminal conspiracy against respected academics and human rights defenders Nandini Sundar of Delhi University and Archana Prasad of JNU, and Sanjay Parate (Chhattisgarh CPI (M) state secretary), among others, is the latest chapter in a long ignoble saga of open police bullying of journalists, rights workers and dissenters in the troubled Bastar...
November 15, 2016
While Delhi occasionally has to grapple with the real excesses of state power, such as when the government orders a news channel to go blank, the police state is alive and thriving in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. The district, which became infamous two decades ago for the significant presence of Maoists, has also become a symbol of Indian state abuse and has been the site of some of the most...
November 11, 2016
Days after the murder of a villager in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar, the police cited his wife's complaint to name Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar and Jawaharlal Nehru University's Archana Prasad as murder suspects.
Sitting in her home at a village around 400 km from Raipur, Shamnath Baghel's wife Vimla told NDTV that she didn't name Nandini Sundar or...
November 11, 2016
38% Dalits & Adivasis have no ration card,16 % no Aadhar card, and 70% pregnant women & % 50% children are without access to nutrition: Jharkand
Representation image
Although the National Food...
November 9, 2016
An online petition demanding withdrawal of charges pressed against the academicians and activists by Chhattisgarh police in the case of murder of a tribal villager, has been receiving support not just from India, but also from parts of world like South Africa, UK and USA.
Prof Nandini Sundar
The petition, uploaded by Prof Aparna Sundar addressed to the president, prime minister and...
November 8, 2016
Delhi University (DU) professor Nandini Sundar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Archana Prasad and eight others were booked on Saturday for the alleged murder of a tribal villager in conflict-ridden Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.
Prof Archana Prasad. Image credit: Youtube
Police said 10 persons have been booked under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder),...
November 4, 2016
Shaking off the responsibility of the malnutrition deaths in tribal areas of the Maharashtra state, minister for woman and child development Pankaja Munde said on Thursday that wellbeing of children comes under the purview of the health ministry, reported Times of India.
Image credit: India Today
“We handle nutrition, whereas children's deaths are under the purview...
November 3, 2016
नेशनल क्राइम रिकॉर्ड्स की 2015 की रिपोर्ट से खुलासा हुआ है कि देशभर की जेल में बंद कैदियों में से 55 फीसदी विचाराधीन कैदी मुस्लिम, दलित या फिर आदिवासी हैं। एनसीआरबी के अनुसार, जेल में बंद दो तिहाई कैदी विचाराधीन हैं और देश की सभी जेलों में कुल मिलाकर यह संख्या 2,82,076 हैं। इन कैदियों में से 80,528 निरक्षर हैं। विचाराधीन कैदियों में 1,19,082 दसवीं क्लास से ऊपर तक पढ़े हैं।
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October 31, 2016
Soni Sori, a human rights defender and an Adivasi school teacher from Chhattisgarh, was in Mumbai recently to talk at an event organised to commemorate Justice (retired) Suresh Hosbet's 25 years of contribution to the human rights struggle in India post his retirement. This event was orgainsed by Majlis, a women's rights organisation in collaboration with Human Rights Law Network (HRLN),...