Citizens for Justice and Peace
Hate Hatao, a Revolutionary New App Designed to Fight Hate Speech The Wire
30-Jan-2019
Hate Hatao is part of Citizens for Justice and Peace’s ‘Hate Watch campaign’, which spreads awareness and understanding about speech that incites hate and violence against marginalised groups. Democratic societies are not free of either prejudice, stereotype or ‘other-ing’. Arguably, democracies in the making, or unfinished democracies, augment the cleavages already existent within structures of society…
NGO launches Android app which lets you report hate speech and fake news FirstPost
21-Jan-2019
Hate speech is everywhere on social media and more often than not, reporting it isn’t the easiest thing to do. For this very reason, an app aimed at combating hate mongering, particularly on social media, has just been launched. Citizens of Justice and Peace (CJP), a Mumbai-based NGO has just launched ‘Hate Hatao’, an app which…
Hate Watch: CJP writes to NHRC regarding hate on Facebook Flags profile of Hindutva activist Deepak Sharma
09-Jan-2019
CJP has written to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), highlighting one of many Facebook profiles that engage in hate speech online. The profile belongs to one Deepak Sharma, who has previously been embroiled in multiple controversies, first gaining notoriety when he released video allegedly depicting him beating up a young boy, and accusing him…
We fought Hate, with all our Heart CJP’s resilient struggle against a growing atmosphere of hate and online vitriol in 2018
31-Dec-2018
In a long tradition of fighting hate and its commitment to secular and peace enforcing values, right from the Bombay riots of 92-93, Gujarat massacre of 2012 and Ayodhya dispute, CJP kept its #JungJaari to combat hate, acrimony and online vitriol. Even as sane voices kept drowning in mainstream media’s high pitched supposedly nationalist and…
क्या बुलंदशहर की हिंसा एक सोची-समझी साज़िश थी? देखिये CJP की ख़ास जांच।
15-Dec-2018
हाल ही में हुए बुलंदशहर हिंसा में दो लोगो की जानें गईं। यह हिंसा कथित तौर पर गौ-हत्या प्रकरण के चलते हुई। लेकिन हिंसा के पहले और बाद में सोशल मीडिया में फैले वीडियो, पोस्ट्स और अन्य ख़बरों की जांच पड़ताल से ऐसा लगता है कि कहीं पूरा मामला एक पूर्व नियोजित षड्यंत्र तो नहीं?…
Bulandshahr: A Staged ‘Accident’ Was there a larger conspiracy at work?
12-Dec-2018
On December 3, 2018, Bulandshahr, a small district in Uttar Pradesh, witnessed sparks of communal violence. Two people, including a police officer, were killed in what is increasingly looking like a planned attack, born out of a dastardly conspiracy!
Hate Watch: CJP’s complaint over hate-filled content on Zee News continues CJP responds to NBSA over letter from Zee Media Corporation
09-Oct-2018
CJP received a response from Zee Media Corporation Ltd. (ZMCL) after we first sent a letter, and then filed a complaint with the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), over hate-filled and violence-inducing content aired on Zee News in June 2018. CJP has since responded to the NBSA, requesting that our complaint may be pursued further.…
164% rise in civilian deaths in Yemen in last four months: ACLED
28-Sep-2018
According to data compiled by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED), civilian deaths in Yemen have risen significantly since the Saudi-led coalition mounted a campaign in June 2018 to capture the port city of Hodeidah, the Guardian reported. ACLED data indicates that civilian deaths have risen by 164% in the four months…
Brazil saw a record number of homicides in 2017
30-Aug-2018
New data shows that 63,880 people were killed in Brazil in 2017, a new record, and a 3% rise compared to 2016, the Guardian recently reported. The independent Brazilian Public Security Forum released data indicating that, on average, 14 people were killed by police officers daily, a figure that is 20% higher than 2016. Homicides…
New Zealand passes law providing paid leave to domestic violence survivors
06-Aug-2018
New Zealand has passed a law providing for paid leave to survivors of domestic violence, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported. The country’s parliament narrowly voted to pass the bill, 63 to 57. The law, which is set to go into force in April 2019, mandates that employers allow survivors up to ten days’ leave so…
Latin America struggling with Homicide Crisis
26-Apr-2018
According to a report from the Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think tank, 2.5 million murders have taken place in Latin American since the year 2000, the Guardian reported. “The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking,” the report says. Latin America is home to just 8% of the global population, but sees 33% of the world’s…
Congress Report on the Punjab Disorders Report on Jallianwala Bagh massacre
14-Apr-2018
In today’s India, where even 70 plus years after Independence, unjust laws or unjust implementation of the law have darkened democracy, the happenings at Jallianwala Bagh 99 years ago, merit revisiting. The Congress Report on the Punjab Disorders, is close to 500 pages and is a report on the Jalianwala Bagh massacre. It is a must read…
Bloodbath on Baisakhi The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, April 13, 1919
13-Apr-2018
((This story was originally published on Sabrang India on April 13, 2016. It is being republished here on the anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre)) Ninety Seven Years Ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British Rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims at the Jallianwala Bagh. The…
Highhandedness of the Delhi Police was shocking: Subhashini Ali Police attacked JNU students peaceful rally
28-Mar-2018
On March 23, the police attacked JNU students’ peaceful rally on the streets of Delhi. Students were beaten, their clothes were torn and they were taken away to an undisclosed police facility says – former CPI (M) MP Subhashini Ali who was also present. In this conversation with Teesta Setalvad she recounts what happened after…
Syria’s Bloody War completes 7 years Cities reduced to rubble, families torn apart, children killed and it's not over yet
15-Mar-2018
“I am going to tell God everything,” were apparently the last words of a three-year old Syrian child before she died. These heart-rending words accompanied with a moving picture of a child has been doing the rounds of social media along with thousands of other messages, pictures, videos on the Syrian war. It is hardly…