Citizens for Justice and Peace
Migrant Diaries : A CJP special series CJP’s special series on the Covid-19 crisis through the eyes of displaced Indians
08-Jun-2020
Tales of an uncertain exodus, from migrant workers who faced starvation and made impossible journeys back home. Watch CJP’s special series on the Covid-19 crisis through the eyes of displaced Indians. CJP reaches out to thousands of migrant workers trapped in a food crisis CJP against Hunger: Essentials supplied to needy families from the North…
Migrant Diaries: Tinku Sheikh “If not for obhab (want), why would we leave our birthplace,” asks the migrant worker from West Bengal
08-Jun-2020
The heart-rending spectacle of migrant workers struggling to negotiate the Covid-19 lockdown is unfolding before us in real time. The term ‘migrant worker’ however hides behind it people who have extraordinary tales to tell – tales of daily struggles big and small, Homeric journeys, the little joys that make up life and stubborn fears that…
COVID-19 Crisis: CJP’s commitment to Mumbai’s migrant workers We are committed to support the countless migrant families in dire need of help in this hour of crisis
06-Apr-2020
CJP is providing essential supplies and ration for 250 construction workers at Gorai in Mumbai. The migrant workers are native to the Marathwada region in Maharashtra. With the country-wide lockdown, they have to deal with acute shortage of basic resources on a daily basis. Battling state-wide transport lockdown, CJP team continues to reach out to…
Census Data debunks claim of large-scale Bangladeshi immigration in Assam Migration data especially significant in light of CAA-NRC conundrum
13-Jan-2020
Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC. While data on foreign migrants do not distinguish between…
विशेष! आवाज़ दबाने का षडयंत्र: भीमा कोरेगांव केस के प्रथम शिकार, दलित प्रवासी कामगार 10 महीने के बाद भी पुरुष जेल में क़ैद हैं और उनकी पत्नियाँ न्याय के लिए दर दर भटक रही हैं.
19-Oct-2018
12 जनवरी, 2018 को, पुणे में भीमा कोरेगांव एल्गार परिषद कार्यक्रम के दो हफ्ते बाद, महाराष्ट्र पुलिस के आतंकवाद विरोधी दल (एटीएस) ने रिलायंस इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर के चार श्रमिकों, एक ठेकेदार और एक अनियत श्रमिक को उठा लिया. गिरफ्तारी से पहले घंटों तक देर रात झोपड़पट्टी में उनके घरों पर छापा मारा गया था. एक दिन…
EXCLUSIVE! Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case 10 months later, men still languish behind bars even as wives run from pillar to post for justice
16-Oct-2018
On January 12, 2018, two weeks after Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad program in Pune, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police picked up four workers of Reliance Infrastructure, one contractor from the same company and a casual worker. Their houses in the slum were raided in the middle of the night for hours before…
Dalit Migrant Workers Falsely Implicated in Bhima Koregaon Clashes! Watch this video to know more
15-Oct-2018
The Pune Police’s first attempts to link ‘Maoists’ to the violence that erupted at the Elgaar Parishad programe, happened before the activists arrest. In January 2018, 8 men including 5 workers and a contractor of Reliance Infrastructure private limited were arrested in alleged connection with the Bhima Koregaon incidents of violence. These arrests, however, hardly…