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Education for All: A Basic Human Rights Need An Exclusive Blog by Special Invitation

In the 21st century post-welfare state, education for all is a lost horizon in India. India has constructed an education system that is among the most exclusionary in the world.  The ruling ideology of neoliberalism has ensured that an unabashed, unapologetic class education has been put in place. There is a perfect fit between the…

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Setalvad has fought many valiant battles for Communally Oppressed and Downtrodden : Prashant Bhushan

” The Preamble talks about Justice. Unfortunately in this country most citizens are not able to get justice, not even justice in the traditional sense, nor economic justice or political justice. It talks about equality, this country is facing the greatest inequality this world has ever seen with a few individuals at the top enjoying…

CJP’s New Avatar: Human Rights and Legal Resources Platform

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a collective legal rights initiative born in 2002 to ensure transparency and accountability to a failing criminal justice system, is now expanding into a full-fledged human rights and legal resources platform. CJP, that has always been advocating the rights of oppressed religious minorities and especially victims and survivors of communal violence, will…

Mehbooba Mufti moves to offer amnesty to first-time stone pelters

Officials said Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has proclaimed amnesty for those involved in stone pelting for the first time, the Hindustan Times reported. On November 22, Mufti tweeted, “It gives me immense satisfaction to restart the process of withdrawing FIRs against first-time offenders of stone pelting,” adding that the process had been…

Papua New Guinea police enter Manus Island detention centre

Papua New Guinea police on Thursday entered a former detention centre on Manus Island in an attempt to force out refugees who are refusing to leave, Al Jazeera reported. Refugees said police wrecked their shelters and belongings. Australia pays Papua New Guinea and Nauru, a small Pacific island country, to house several thousand people seeking…

Bangladesh, Myanmar reach agreement on return of Rohingya

Bangladesh and Myanmar have reached an agreement regarding the repatriation of several hundred thousand Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar and are in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, Al Jazeera reported. This follows a meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and de factor leader, and Bangladesh’s foreign minister. More than 620,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh…

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