Citizens for Justice and Peace
NHRC team in Kandhamal to check FRA implementation
19-Aug-2015
Staff Reporter BHUBANESWAR, August 19, 2015 With the forest dwellers, especially tribals, complaining about apathetic approach of government machinery in recognising their rights under the Forest Rights Act, two special rapporteurs of the National Human Rights Commission have begun their field visits in Odisha’s Kandhamal district . NHRC special rapporteur (tribal issues) P. P. Mathur…
Police arrests 5 FTII students in midnight crackdown on charges of rioting
19-Aug-2015
The arrested students have been taken to the Deccan police station Pune: In a midnight crackdown, police arrested five students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) from its campus on charges of rioting. The arrests come after a group of striking students had on Monday gheraoed the institute director, Prashant Pathrabe, protesting against…
Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam
17-Aug-2015
Submitted by TwoCircles.net on 17 August 2015 – 9:55am By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats of their village, nearly a week after 100 families of the Dalit community from Haryana’s Hisar district converting to Islam. The protesting Dalit families…
Tamil Nadu: Vanniyars attack Dalit procession, torch huts
17-Aug-2015
Police said that the attack was a fallout of long-pending dispute over Dalits’ right to bring out a temple car procession through the village’s main road, which passes through a Vanniyar-dominated area. Chennai Published:Aug 17, 2015, 1:07 At least 10 Dalit huts were torched and 15 people, including a SP and six other policemen, were…
No more conversion by 2020: affiliate sets target
17-Aug-2015
The meeting saw a PowerPoint presentation that compared the growth rates of Muslims and Christians with that of Hindus. New Delhi Published:Aug 17, 2015, 4:00 Dharm Jagran Samanway Samtiti, an RSS affiliate, has resolved to stop conversion by 2020 and continue ghar wapsi (reconversion) so that the Hindu population increases by the next census in…
Village headwoman caught on video ‘beating Dalits with a stick after tying them to a tree’
16-Aug-2015
By Manjeet Sehgal Published: 21:16 GMT, 16 August 2015 | In a horrific incident that came to light, a village headwoman (sarpanch) allegedly thrashed three Dalits, including a woman in Dhurkot village. Her son reportedly recorded the entire episode and the clip went viral. The incident took place on July 27 when the victim, Suresh…
LGBT kin share stories of pride and prejudice
16-Aug-2015
Siblings, Bosses, Teachers Attend Acceptance Meet It was the second edition of the Acceptance Meet on Saturday , an initia tive of Yaariyan the youth wing of the Humsafar Trust to bring together family , friends, teachers and bosses of those from the LGBT community . And `acceptance’ couldn’t get more bold with a chapter…
Ram Janmabhoomi movement: Shiv Sena to felicitate families of deceased karsevaks
14-Aug-2015
Shiv Sena’s UP in-charge, said on Thursday that the families will be honoured in ‘Rambhakt Sammelans’ that the party will organise from next month. Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Published:August 14, 2015 1:18 am To push its Ram temple agenda, BJP ally Shiv Sena has decided to felicitate the families of karsevaks, who…
Ten injured as blast rips through mosque in Kashmir
14-Aug-2015
SRINAGAR: A grenade explosion outside a village mosque in Jammu & Kashmir wounded 10 worshippers on Thursday in the first such incident in 14 years and police detected another explosive near a Hizbul Mujahideen militant’s home. I t was unclear who was behind the blast because attacks at mosques are rare in Muslimmajority Kashmir, which…
Chikki sent to school unfit for consumption, government tells Bombay High Court
14-Aug-2015
Aug 14, 2015 | Age Correspondent| mumbai The Maharashtra government on Thursday informed the Bombay high court that the chikki supplied to schools in tribal areas in four districts under a Rs 206-crore procurement scheme by the women and child development ministry was unfit for human consumption. This information was provided to the high court…