Citizens for Justice and Peace
Protests need to be systematic to fetch good results: activist Teesta Setalvad News Karnataka.com
01-Mar-2020
Mangaluru: Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad has opined that holding a systematic protest in an organised manner, signature campaign and meeting elected representatives as delegates can stop union government from implementing proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). She was delivering a talk on CAA, NRC, NPR,…
Right-wing leaders are real traitors: former Bajrang Dal leader Mahendra Kumar News Karnataka.com
01-Mar-2020
Mangaluru: Former Bajrang Dal leader Mahendra Kumar has said that the entire Amulya Leona episode has made the right-wing happy. Delivering a key-note address at an anti-CAA, NRC and NPR protest, organised by Samvidhana Samrakshana Samiti at Mandani Nagar Kutthar Mahendra Kumar said that when Amulya shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ at an anti-CAA protest rally recently…
Delhi Violence: Human Rights Group Reminds NHRC of Statutory Mandate- News Click In the letter addressed to the Chairman of NHRC, the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN has asked the Commission to take suo motu action in the face of human rights violations resulting from the violence that flared up in Northeast Delhi recently.
28-Feb-2020
As the death toll due to the communal violence—which flared up in the national capital and continued for over three days starting February 23—continues to rise, the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) has written a letter to the National Human Rights Commission on February 28, reminding the Commission of…
Persecute Kapil Mishra for ‘instigating’ Delhi riots: Petition to Chief Justice of India Counterview Desk
26-Feb-2020
Well-known human rights organization, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), has floated a an online petition asking the Chief Justice of India asking the judicial intervention at the highest level in order to hold BJP leader Kapil Mishra accountable for instigating violence in north-east Delhi, and prosecute him. A copy of the petition is proposed…
No Rights And A Lot Of Wrongs Drama marks meet slamming CAA-NPR-NRC with speakers stressing divisive agenda; urge audience to join in protest - Mid Day
17-Feb-2020
Fr Fraser Mascarenhas and Dolphy ™Souza. Pics/ Bipin Kokate The Bombay Catholic Sabha (BCS) along with the St Theresa Sabha unit held a meet on Saturday night at the St Theresa’s hall in Bandra West. The meet was titled, ‘Understanding Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC)’. The…
Withdraw FIRs against Mumbai Bagh protesters: Netas, activists The Times of India
12-Feb-2020
TNN | Feb 12, 2020, 12.30 PM IST MUMBAI: While two former IAS officers Kannan Gopinathan, Sashikumar Senthil and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad on Tuesday appealed to Maharashtra and other states to boycott the National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizenship (NRC), a delegation of Muslim leaders met city police chief Sanjay…
Protest march in Delhi against CAA, NRC Activists, politicians speak in support of Mumbai Bagh protesters- The Hindu
12-Feb-2020
Rallying together: Medha Patkar at Mumbai Bagh on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Government servant-turned-activist Kannan Gopinathan on Tuesday said a massive protest march was being planned in Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). Addressing a press conference at the Mumbai Press Club…
NGO’s NRC-related work recognised The CJP’s work has found recognised in the form of the 6th eNGO challenge Certificate of Recognition- The Telegraph
04-Feb-2020
Teesta Setalvad, who is the co-founder of CJP, with the award Telegraph picture Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a pan-India NGO, has won the eNGO Challenge 2019-2020 for extending help and support to the people of Assam during the NRC process. The Mumbai-based NGO, headed by activist Teesta Setalvad, through its voluntary ground-level…
Good response to CJP’s NPR meeting in Mumbai Dadar area Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) in action
01-Feb-2020
Mumbai : On January 31st 2020, CJP’s Teesta Setalvad spoke at a meeting on the NPR-NRC issue. The meeting was organised at Church of Our Lady of Salvation, popularly referred to as Portuguese Church, located in Dadar. Around 100 people attended meeting. Discussion and Solutions were done on NPR issue. The audience consisted of eminent…
37 Hindu Rashtra Sena members held for disrupting meeting against CAA, NRC in Kothrud The activists gathered without any permission at Gandhi Maidan and raised slogans against the event and the organisers. The activists indulged in an unlawful assembly and violated the Bombay Police Act, 1951, (Maharashtra) Section 37 (1) (3) - Hindustan Times
01-Feb-2020
The meeting which was addressed by Bollywood actor Urmila Matondkar and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad titled ‘Non-violent people’s movement against CAA, NRC and NPR’ was held in Kothrud on Thursday on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary.(HT/PHOTO) The Kothrud police on Friday arrested 37 members of the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) for…