Citizens for Justice and Peace
Women prisoners recount Jail Horror Stories Rape and torture common in jails
24-Jan-2019
Over the past 15 years, India’s jails have seen a rise in women inmates by 61 per cent, even though they constitute only 48.18% of the national population (according to the World Bank, 2017). Moreover, the Indian prison system has failed to respect their rights. From custodial torture, rape, denial of health services, lack of clean food and…
Deliberate Attempt to weaken Forest Produce scheme? Slow and certain moves to attack incomes and rights of forest dwellers
01-Dec-2018
For the longest time, the lobby of contractors, bureaucrats, forest department officials and other traders have kept local forest dwellers away from their own work of labour, namely Minor Forest Produce or MFPs, giving them only wages for the work they would do to collect and process forest produce. The profit would inevitably be scooped…
UP’s Indomitable Van Tangias: Overcoming Marginalisation with Tenacity How unions pressurised CM Adityanath to recognise several villages as Revenue Villages
20-Nov-2018
In the run up to the Lok Sabha polls, Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Adityanath has reportedly “stepped up efforts to expand his influence in the most backward communities” living in the forest protected regions of the Eastern UP. This, the CM plans to do by granting revenue status to villages which will entitle them…
इससे न सत्य मिलेगा न ही न्याय : NHRC की अपर्याप्त जांच पर AIUFWP सचिव रोमा की प्रतिक्रिया मई महीने में सीजेपी और AIUFWP द्वारा की गई साझी शिकायत पर NHRC का जवाब
31-Oct-2018
ऑल इंडिया यूनियन ऑफ फ़ॉरेस्ट वर्किंग पीपल (AIUFWP) की सदस्य रोमा ने 20 जून 2018 को सीजेपी की सचिव तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ के साथ संयुक्त रूप से एक शिकायत दर्ज कराई थी. इस शिकायत के सम्बन्ध में 20 सितंबर 2018 को राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग (NHRC) से एक जवाब प्राप्त हुआ. ये शिकायत, उत्तर प्रदेश (यूपी) के सोनभद्र के लिलासी गांव में पुलिस द्वारा बरती…
Neither Truth nor Justice will emerge: AIUFWP Secretary Roma files response to inadequate investigation by NHRC NHRC responds to CJP’s and AIUFWP’s joint complaint filed in May
10-Oct-2018
Roma of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) received a reply from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on September 20, 2018 regarding a complaint jointly filed by CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and herself on May 30, 2018. The complaint was filed in the aftermath of incidents of police brutality and harassment…
The Forest Department has labeled us “Thieves”: Pavitra Mandal Sundarban forest dwellers struggle to get Forest Rights Act 2006 implemented
21-Sep-2018
In this interview, Subdarban Jan Shramik Union Secretary Pavitra Mandal tells us about their struggle to get the Forest Rights Act of 2006 implemented and how this has lead to many of Sundarban’s inhabitants being implicated in false crimes and numerous false cases being filed against them. Related: Reclaiming Land through Peaceful Struggles Roma:…
टांगिया, उत्तर प्रदेश के वनग्रामों को मिला राजस्व दर्जा देश के उन 20 लाख वनगांव परिवारों के संघर्ष की कहानी, जिनकी गिनती जनगणना में भी नहीं होती
07-Jul-2018
मघ्यप्रदेश, छत्तीसगढ़, असम, गुजरात, तमिलनाडु, केरल, कर्नाटक आदि राज्यों को मिलाकर पूरे देश में लगभग 7000 ऐसे वनगांव मौज़ूद हैं जिनमें टांगिया वनमजदूरों के 20 लाख से भी ज़्यादा परिवार रहते हैं। टांगिया काश्तकारों को एक ऐसा व्यवसायिक जंगल उगाने की ज़िम्मेदारी दी गई जिसे बाद में काट लिया जाएगा। अब, जब ये काश्तकार प्रशासन को अनुपयोगी लग रहे हैं वो…
Free Sokalo and Kismatiya NOW CJP and AIUFWP move Allahabad HC
30-Jun-2018
Sokalo Gond (Treasurer of AIUFWP) and Kismatiya Gond (Secretary, Forest Rights Committee), were arrested from Chopan station, Sonbhadra on June 8. CJP and AIUFWP have moved Allahabad High Court to release illegally detained Adivasis. Watch this video to know more:
Critiquing Allahabad HC’s Judgement
11-Sep-2007
Legal eagles question judge’s Gita remark Not going by the book September 11, 2007 Satya Prakash, Hindustan Times The Allahabad High Court’s observations that every citizen, irrespective of caste, creed or religion, should follow the dharma propounded by the Bhagvad Gita evoked strong reactions from legal experts who said it was an abuse of constitutional powers by a judge.…