Citizens for Justice and Peace
Dalit farmer ‘murdered’, relatives block road
06-Jul-2015
Rawat recently sold the land to someone else, leading to fresh tensions. By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Published:July 6, 2015 12:00 am Locals block Lucknow-Faizabad Road after the murder of dalit farmer on Sunday. (Source: Express Phoot by Pramod Adhikari) An elderly Dalit farmer was murdered on Sunday morning by three persons at…
Landlessness is higher among Dalits but more adivasis are ‘deprived’
06-Jul-2015
The SECC has identified 14 parameters of exclusion. Fulfilling even one of them would result in a household being treated as non-deprived. Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | How do higher landlessness and manual casual labour dependence among Dalit families square up with their lower deprivation incidence, as per the SECC data? Adivasis…
Discrimination against Dalit women in Ahmedabad
05-Jul-2015
Submitted by TwoCircles.net on 5 July 2015 – 6:26pm (Editor’s Note: This is Case Study which is part of a new annual report titled ‘State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015’ prepared by Minority Rights Group International’s.) By Rajiv Shah, In Ahmedabad, located in the heart of Gujarat state, Dalits have been an…
Transgender Men Continue to Struggle for Visibility in Social Change
05-Jul-2015
All India | Written by Sutapa Deb | Updated: July 05, 2015 09:32 IST While transgender women have visibility, trangender men still struggle for social cover. New Delhi: Over a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement on transgender rights, one group among the transgender community continues to be left out. The term transgender is…
Dalit boy found murdered in Beed in suspected honour killing case
05-Jul-2015
After preliminary investigation, police suspected it to be a case of honour killing as the boy had reportedly eloped with a minor girl from Muslim community in Ahmednagar. A Dalit teen from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, who had recently escaped from a remand home, was found murdered in Beed district on Wednesday. After preliminary investigation,…
‘Sweeper’ boxer Krishna Rout seeks a job of dignity from Mamata government
04-Jul-2015
“Earlier I worked for five years as a sweeper of the Corporation, but in 2005 I was given the job of spraying disinfectants in drains which I have been doing for the past ten years,” said Rout. By: Press Trust of India | Howrah | Published:July 4, 2015 4:54 pm Former national boxer Krishna Rout,…
Tension in UP village over killing of Muslim
04-Jul-2015
Tension prevailed in Singhavali Ahir village in Baghpat district after a 50-year-old Muslim man, who was allegedly attacked by a group of five men from another community, succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Meerut Friday morning. The victim, Bindu, had sustained head injuries and was referred to Meerut hospital on Thursday night. The members…
Dalit boy found murdered in Beed in suspected honour killing case
04-Jul-2015
After preliminary investigation, police suspected it to be a case of honour killing as the boy had reportedly eloped with a minor girl from Muslim community in Ahmednagar. By: Express News Service | Pune | Published on:July 4, 2015 1:56 am A Dalit teen from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, who had recently escaped from a…
Dalit commission member calls separate crematoria inhuman
04-Jul-2015
Updated: Jul 04, 2015 09:05 IST Showing deep concern over separate crematoria for Dalits in Haryana villages, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) member Ishwar Singh has demanded that this practice be made a criminal offence. Ishwar Singh, who was here on Friday to convene a meeting with the district officials, said that Haryana…
Tension in Panchmahals after Muslim youth, Hindu girl ‘elope’
04-Jul-2015
“We are not probing any love jihad case, but the complaint of abduction filed by the girl’s father,” said a police officer. Shops remained closed in protest By: Express News Service | Vadodara | Published on:July 4, 2015 3:15 am Goghamba taluka of the Panchmahals district in Vadodara was tense Friday. The local traders downed…