Citizens for Justice and Peace
What India Needs is More Gender Just Laws, Including Personal Laws, for Its Women
12-Jun-2017
Leveraging Our Laws: A Comparative Account and Conscious Effort to Strengthen Various Personal Laws in India India – a kaleidoscope of cultures, has always been immensely diverse in thought as well as in action. People of different religions reside in India in harmony as also in disharmony. Some are the original inhabitants such as the…
Us & Them: Class, Religious Divides Ahmedabad Style in Bombay Hotel Area
10-Jun-2017
Written by Darshini Mahadevia, Renu Desai, Shachi Sanghvi, Suchita Vyas, Mo. Sharif Pathan, Rafi Malek Housing with secure tenure is necessary for poverty alleviation, reducing inequalities and realizing the right to the city. However, the development paradigm in Indian cities plays a central role in creating and perpetuating insecure tenure for a large majority who…
Nirbhaya & Bilkees Bano: Different Parametres for Justice?
07-May-2017
Two judgements within a day of each other have caught national attention. The first is the Supreme Court judgement in the Nirbhaya case. The second is the Mumbai High Court judgement in the Bilkis Bano case. Two cases, two women, two standards of justice. The Nirbhaya case aroused the conscience of India in an unprecedented…
Bilkees Bano Case: Rejecting Appeals of 11 Accused Bombay High Court Upholds Convictions
04-May-2017
The Bombay High Court today upheld the life sentence order of the trial court against the 11 accused in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case. The court has, however, set aside acquittal of five of the accused which include Gujarat police officers and doctors of the government hospital. The court further said that it will…
Judgement in Bilkees Bano Case Today, Bombay HC: Guj 2002 Carnage
04-May-2017
Bilkis Bano, a Survivor and Face of the Struggle for Justice and Reparation Awaits the Verdict in the Apepals by convicts as she now lives in Vadodara Over five and a half months after the Bombay High Court reserved its order on appeals filed by 11 convicts against life sentence awarded to them by the…
Arguments in Zakia Jafri case implicating top netas, cops and babus in 2002 carnage to conclude tomorrow in Gujarat HC
27-Apr-2017
The tortuous round of proceedings in the famed Zakia Jafri case wound down to the final arguments today, April 27 in the Gujarat High Court; after tomorrow it’s the Day of Judgement The Zakia Jafri case is an attempt to establish criminal and administrative responsibility for the mass and targeted crimes that took place in…
From Destruction of Wombs to Liberators of Muslim Women: Politics of Hindutva
20-Apr-2017
Gender justice within the Muslim community will be achieved primarily by the struggle of Muslim women, of course with the support of democratic institutions. Politicisation of the issue to score brownie political points will harm the cause of Muslim women. Heightened media coverage on the issue of triple talaq along with the statement of the…
Targeted Violence Preparing Ground for Assembly Elections, Gujarat: Factfinding Report
01-Apr-2017
Over the past few days, since violence broke out in the Patan district of Gujarat, Sabrangindia has been bringing its readers reports. Yesterday we carried a detailed story of the allegedly brute targeting of the district’s Muslims and allegations of police complicity. Today we bring to our readers this Factfinding report by a group of…
2002 Gujarat riots “update”: 1,926 lost their lives; “historic” efforts on to link violence with state culpability
28-Mar-2017
India’s most renowned human rights activist who has taken up the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, Teesta Setalvad, has told Counterview that a fresh exercise by her NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), suggests that “as many as 1,926 lives were lost in the reprisal violence that broke out after the Godhra tragedy from February…
‘They wish everyday to be dead’: The struggles of children in Gujarat’s riot rehabilitation camps
02-Mar-2017
The children of the riots continue to suffer psychological and physical scars, which no one in the administration has attempted to understand, let alone heal. Image: Sam Panthaky “I haven’t had a drink in five months,” said Javed Shaikh. His voice slurs and hands shake as he spits back into a tiny glass, the mango…