Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP writes to Minorities Commission over attacks on churches Churches in UP, MP, Uttarakhand were vandalised by Hindutva outfit members
07-Oct-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace, has written to the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to take cognisance of the various instances of attacks on churches, allegedly by right-wing outfits in various states over the past one week. Multiple attacks have taken place in Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. In the city of Roorkee,…
I’m a vocal Indian Muslim woman, not an object to be auctioned Noor Mahvish in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad
21-Aug-2021
Watch: CJP Secretary Teesta Setalvad in an exclusive conversation with Noor Mahvish, where the young law student shares the trauma of being “listed for auction” in Sulli Deals, a misogynistic app. Related: Indian Prison Condition and Monitoring Know Your Rights on being Arrested
Protecting and Promoting Minority Rights in India’s Criminal Justice System: Need for a Special Law Paper in honour of Justice PB Sawant
09-Jul-2021
Minority rights in India’s criminal justice system (CJS) are in dire straits as revealed graphically in institutional murder of Father Stan Swamy, the tribal rights activist. The indifference of the authorities to end such horrific human rights violations has been graphically brought out in several recent reports. The persisting violence and crimes against the minority…
New amendment to Gujarat’s education law violating minority rights? The law has been challenged before the HC
23-Jun-2021
On March 31, the Gujarat State Assembly passed the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill, 2021 making the appointment of teaching faculty and principal of minority educational institutions a centralised process. State government records suggest that there are 397 secondary and higher secondary schools run by religious and linguistic minority organisations in Gujarat. Further…
Tougher Than Steel: Odisha Community Rally Against Transfer of Their Land, Again Around 447 families are likely to be displaced by the proposed steel project.
07-Nov-2019
The POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) has recommenced their movement and begun resistance against the Government of Odisha’s plans to transfer their land near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district to a steel company, JSW Utkal Steel Ltd. On September 17, 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Forest accepted the State Government’s proposal to transfer the forest clearance…
Help CJP protect the citizenship of Indians in Assam What is NRC and how are the people in Assam affected
16-Jul-2019
Over 500 of CJP’s volunteers have been working tirelessly across 18 of the worst affected districts of Assam, helping people navigate the difficult and often incomprehensible NRC process. We are also helping those whose citizenship is being questioned before Foreigners’ Tribunals. This is significant in light of the recent submission of the Ministry of Home…
Zamser Ali: A Ray of hope for the people of Assam Human Rights Defender
20-Jun-2019
This is the story of Zamser Ali, a journalist and activist from Assam, whose unceasing fight against the system to reinstate the human rights of the poorest of the poor is not only inspiring but overwhelming. Zamser continues to work on the ground, trying to make this world a better place, one day at a…
Locating the Role of State and Changing Nature of Violence Part-1 of a Study on Communal Violence by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
13-Feb-2019
As per newspaper reports, the number of communal incidents all over India in 2018 has been the lowest in the past four years. The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) monitors reports of communal incidents in five newspapers every year. In 2018 the number of communal incidents reported was 38 as compared to…
UN raises questions about NRC Claims and Objections process Highlights suffering of economically backward minorities, women and children
20-Dec-2018
In a recent letter to the Indian Government, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs have once again raised concerns about people left out of the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), especially with respect to the haphazard and arbitrary process of filing Claims and Objections. The letter written by the Working Group on Arbitrary…
Fact-Finding Team Rebuts Love Jihad Charge in Afrazul’s killing
13-Dec-2017
Shocking details concerning the murder of Afrazul-a 48 year old migrant labourer from West Bengal by Shambhu Regar, have emerged following a fact-finding by three major groups in Rajasthan. The investigation was conducted by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Udaipur, Bhilwara and Jaipur district, the MKSS and the members of Rajsamand Mahila Manch between…