Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP in Action: Forest workers unite with anti-CAA protesters Members of CJP's partner organisation AIUFWP met with Shaheen Bagh protesters to fight oppression together
17-Feb-2020
Recently a contingent of 23 Dalit and Adivasi forest workers from Lakhimpur Khikri, Sonbhadra and Manikpur arrived in New Delhi to express solidarity with people protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The visiting contingent comprised members of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP). Just like the protests at Shaheen Bagh are predominantly…
Roma: Unbowed, Unbroken, Unbent Human Rights Defender Profile
06-Dec-2017
Roma Malik is known for working closely with the forest dwelling communities in Uttar Pradesh. She is also known for liasing with local authorities and the judicial system to bring to force, a just framework for the enforcement and implementation of forest rights of the indigenous people of India. She is the leading figure of…
Justice for the Incarcerated Tribals of Jharkand PIL against fake FIRs and false cases against Adivasis
30-Nov-2017
The petition filed by Stan Swamy and others, after a detailed fact finding in Jharkand seeks to enforce the fundamental right to speedy trials of the ignorant and deprived members of the indigenous / downtrodden communities from the scheduled tribes and scheduled castes and other backward classes of Jharkhand facing trials in the courts. Over…
“शांतिपूर्ण संघर्षों के रास्ते ज़मीन पाने की लड़ाई” सोनभद्र के आदिवासी और उनकी न्याय व अस्मिता की लड़ाई
24-Nov-2017
2017 के सितम्बर महीने में, सम्मानित मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता, पत्रकार और शिक्षाविद् तीस्ता सेतलवाड़, न्यायमूर्ति पी.बी. सावंत और न्यायमूर्ति कोल्से पाटिल ने, उत्तर प्रदेश (यूपी) जिला सोनभद्र जिले के लोदी गांव के जिलाधिकारी श्री प्रमोद कुमार उपाध्याय को एक पत्र लिखा था जिसमें आग्रह किया गया था कि पुलिस और प्रशासन के वरिष्ठ अधिकारियों को प्रशासन…
From POSCO to JSW: The Struggle Continues A timeline of the story so far
10-Nov-2017
Protesting villagers and betel cultivators from the Paradip region of Odisha formed themselves into the POSCO Pratirodh Sangharsh Samiti (PPSS), in June 2005- after an MoU was signed between POSCO and Odisha state government. After winning a hard fought battle against POSCO, the PPSS is now strongly resisting the handing over of 27, 000 acres of…