Citizens for Justice and Peace
कुछ अनोखे प्रेम पत्र सावित्री बाई और ज्योतिबा फुले के प्रेम एवं सामाजिक चेतना के प्रतीक
02-Jan-2018
सावित्रीबाई फुले यकीनन भारत की पहली महिला शिक्षिका और मुक्तिदाता थीं जिन्हें इतिहास ने लगभग भुला दिया है, 176 साल पहले 1831 में उनका जन्म हुआ और 3 जनवरी उनका जन्मदिन है, विभिन्न जातियों की लड़कियों के लिए पहले विद्यालय की स्थापना भाईडेवाड़ा, पुणे (ब्राह्मणों का गढ़) में करने वाली, क्रांतिज्योति सावित्रीबाई, अनेक रूप से…
US opioid crisis claims more lives than breast cancer
26-Dec-2017
CNN has reported that a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics in the United States found that more than 63,600 people died of drug overdoses in 2016. The report said 42,249, or 66%, of these involved opioids. In contrast, 41,070 Americans die of breast cancer annually, according to CNN. CNN reports that…
Spread Joy Not Fear This Christmas
24-Dec-2017
This Christmas season, like for the past three and a half years, the minute Indian Christian minority was again made to cringe, feel fear and insecurity. In Satna, carol singing priests were attacked, clearly influenced by a majoritarian and supremacist woldview today in power in 19 states of the country. On December 15, a mob-linked…
Jignesh Mevani’s historic victory in Gujarat 2017
21-Dec-2017
Jignesh Mevani wins in Vadgam constituency assembly seat December 2017, Gujarat. Actor Activist Joy Sengupta on Jignesh’s historic win by 20,000 votes.
When the Supreme Court Firmly De-linked Religion from Politics A Fact Sheet To Explain the Significance of the SR Bommai vs Union of India Case
20-Dec-2017
The SR Bommai vs Union of India, March 1994 judgement heralded for its endorsement of Indian federalism, is also a sharp and biting commentary on inroads of religion into politics and safeguards Indian secularism. Bommai‘s promise of fair federal play, the judgment’s mandate for secularism, and for action against parties and State governments violating the constitutional…
One Planet Summit 2017
12-Dec-2017
On December 12, 2017, two years after the Paris Climate Change Agreement was adopted, world leaders, governments, and representatives of civil society and the private sector are convening in Paris for the One Planet Summit. The summit is aimed at setting in motion initiatives that will facilitate in increasing “financial flows” into developing countries. Among…
UN cautions sanctions on North Korea could hurt millions requiring aid
12-Dec-2017
UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said at a special security council meeting that stringent sanctions levied on North Korea are affecting the flow of humanitarian aid into the country, the Guardian reported. 70% of North Korea’s population, an estimated 18 million people, struggle with a severe lack of food, and humanitarian agencies…
EU governments complicit in abuse of refugees, migrants in Libya: Amnesty
12-Dec-2017
Amnesty International has released a report alleging that European governments “are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions”. Libya is the primary transit point for migrants attempting to reach Europe. However, after the EU has supplied funding, ships and…
CJP Response to Supreme Court Judgement
06-Dec-2017
The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) got a reprieve from the Supreme Court when, by a final order passed today, December 6, 2017, they have been permitted to challenge orders passed by trial court in Gujarat which had passed the order in December 2010 without hearing either CJP or Teesta Setalvad. The special leave petition…
Supreme Court asked to declare Babri neutral, non-religious constitutional space, irrespective of final adjudication Counter View
04-Dec-2017
Counter View December 03, 2017 Supreme Court asked to declare Babri neutral, non-religious constitutional space, irrespective of final adjudication By Our Representative Sunday, December 03, 2017 In a sharp move to intervene in the Babri Masjid dispute, which the Supreme Court is set to hear on a day-to-day basis starting December 5, dozens of top…
CJP starts online petition in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case
04-Dec-2017
Afternoon December 04, 2017 CJP starts online petition in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case Monday, December 04, 2017 By Shaiber Raichur A Mumbai-based human rights platform – Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) – dedicated to fighting communalism, discrimination and standing for the rights of all Indians, is now intervening in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case,…
Don’t decide Ayodhya dispute in any one’s favour: Plea in SC
04-Dec-2017
The Tribune December 2, 2017 Don’t decide Ayodhya dispute in any one’s favour: Plea in SC CJI Misra-led bench is to take up cross-appeals in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case on Dec 5 The bench has made it cleat that the case has to be decided in a time-bound manner. Satya Prakash Tribune News Service New…
How the Babri Masjid was demolished-excerpts from the Liberhan Commission Report, 2009
02-Dec-2017
December 6, 1992: In blatant violation of the solemn assurances given by senior leaders of the sangh parivar and then BJP chief minister of UP, Kalyan Singh, to the Supreme Court and to the Congress government at the Centre, the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished in full public view. Ten days later, the government…
Citizens for Justice and Peace Intervenes for Peace in Ayodhya
02-Dec-2017
Indian Cultural Forum December 1, 2017 Citizens for Justice and Peace Intervenes for Peace in Ayodhya December 1, 2017 Citizens for Justice and Peace, a human rights and legal resources platform dedicated to fighting communalism and discrimination, and for the rights of one and all, is now intervening in the Ram Janm Bhoomi – Babri…
SC Should Hear Demolition Case First, Then Title Suit: Ayodhya Probe Judge, Liberhan Indian Express 01-12-2017
02-Dec-2017
Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan has told the Indian Express, days before the Supreme Court starts final hearings in the title suit case from December 5, that the Supreme Court should first hear the case related to the demolition before it begins hearings on the title suit Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, whose commission of inquiry held that the demolition of the Babri…