भेदभाव
January 18, 2015
The book endeavours to bring to light the multifaceted personality of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, who is generally perceived to be only as the leader of the depressed classes. Giving a comprehensive account of the trials and tribulations of this great son of soil, the book reveals to the reader the humanist, economist, socio-political scientist, constitutional expert, socio-religious reformer and above...
December 14, 2014
FORMER PRESIDENT PEOPLES UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES and former chief justice of Delhi High court RAJINDAR SACHAR said that statement of U.P. Governor Ram Naik is a gratuitous insult not only to the biggest Minority in the country but to overwhelming population of the country who are against creating a religious divide.
In a statement issued here Justice Sachar said, “I am...
October 15, 2014
Baba Adhav, at 84 remains a doyen of the working class movement having organised the unorganised section of India's working class, the ragpicker, the domestic worker into what Pune and many parts of Maharashtra proudly know as the Hamal Panchayats. Hamals, mainly from backward castes, came from all over rural Maharashtra to Pune's markets, unloading heavy sacks of grain or cement on their...
September 12, 2014
New Delhi, 12 Sep 2014: India's prominent Muslim organization has written a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh over spurt in saffron hate campaign against minorities, particularly Muslims since Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Centre in May this year. In his three-page letter on Wednesday, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, country’s largest...
July 7, 2014
The Supreme Court’s gave the fatwa ruling in the public interest petition filed by an advocate VishwaLochan Madan.The petitioner was prompted to file the petition subsequent to the fatwas issued in the cases of Imrana, Asoobi and Jatsonara. In the first case, Imrana was raped by her father-in-law and the Dar-ul-Uloom issued a fatwa dissolving her marriage with his son and thereafter...
May 1, 2014
When Justice Becomes the Victim
The Quest for Justice After the 2002 Violence in Gujarat
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This report was authored by Stephan Sonnenberg, Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC). The Stanford IHRCRC is one of ten clinics in the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School.
The...
November 24, 2013
End Impunity, Ensure Accountability
National Campaign for the Tabling in the Parliament of the
PREVENTION OF COMMUNAL AND TARGETED VIOLENCE (ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS) BILL, 2011
Supported By:
Justice P.B.Sawant (retired) Supreme Court of India
Justice Hosbet Suresh (retired) Bombay High Court
Justice S.H.A Raza...
November 13, 2013
Indian media turns a deaf ear to issues of caste and mass mobilization. At the outset of our niche independent journalistic journey, we had tracked how the 1992-1993 post Babri Masjid demolition violence dropped off the coverage of the national media especially when crucial witnesses of the affected minority began deposing before the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission from 1993-1998. (Communalism...