Visitors: 156 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Unlike the US justice system which has a "witness PROTECTION program", Indian judiciary has a "witness ELIMINATION program". Our courts systematically defeat the good intentions of witnesses, failing which they eliminate the witnesses themselves. They create conditions where witnesses are rewarded for turning hostile, and […]
Visitors: 185 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai To curb courtroom corruption, install CCTV cameras for video & audio recording all courtroom proceedings. Immediately broadcast and upload the proceedings on internet for public viewing — just like Rajya Sabha TV etc. Call it "Justice TV", with local channels for the proceedings of local courts, […]
Visitors: 153 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Is judiciary a back-breaking burden that Indian citizens have been carrying since Independence? The only reason judiciary exists in its present form is that very few people believe it is possible to put it down and review the whole thing. Because of such lack of popular […]
Visitors: 141 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Litigants and appellants, who are court regulars, know many ugly inside truths about judges. They know about courtroom politics, malpractices, habits and biases of judges, and the channels through which they are routinely approached for corruption. On a conservative estimate, there are a hundred persons in every […]
Visitors: 241 N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived It is extremely disturbing to know that 20 persons who are poor and unskilled were shot down by A P police, as they were reported to be cutting down red sanders in Andhra Pradesh. It is said that these poor workers were employed by smugglers, […]
Visitors: 225 Dr Ram Puniyani Rtd Professor, IIT Bombay Evangelical Fellowship of India and Alliance Defending Freedom, India EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Christian community in India is concerned at the intensity of the targeted and communal violence directed against it almost on a pan India basis. Violence against Christians picked up in independent India in the […]
Visitors: 613 Rajesh Vakharia Deepika Padukone’s video #MyChoice has created a massive controversy and it has drawn flak even as it divided the people everywhere. It has got almost 4 million views in Youtube and has about 30,000 likes and some 15000 dislikes till now. However, men’s rights activists of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) […]
Visitors: 156 Ram Puniyani Rtd Prof. IIT Bombay What has religion to do with politics? What has violence to do with religion? And how does the expression of major political agenda shape itself in contemporary times? Roughly speaking it seems that the religion is being used as a cover for many a political phenomenon. This […]
Visitors: 192 Fr. Cedric Prakash sj Citizens for Justice & Peace It is extremely unfortunate that the anticipatory bail application filed by Ms. Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and three others of Gulberg Society – Mr. Tanvir Jafri (son of slain MP Ehsan Jafri), Mr. Feroz Gulzar, Secretary and Mr. Salim Sandhi, Chairman of […]
Visitors: 554 Prof Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published over 400 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service and over 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 […]
Visitors: 282 February 26, 2013, New Delhi: At an urgent press conference held in New Delhi, ASSOCHAM Ladies League demanded for massive allocations of funds in Budget 2013-14 for women’s issues, as what is coming via news and views is not enough. Dr. Harbeen Arora, Global Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Ladies League (ALL) said, “We are making […]
Lenin Raghuvanshi India is the world’s largest democracy with one of the best constitutions and is equipped with domestic mechanisms to fulfil the constitutional guarantees to protect human rights and dignity. However, theory is very different from practice. Internationally accepted human rights institutions are continuously reporting severe human rights violations in India. Primary concerns are torture, […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityOm Prakash Chaudhary IAS, popularly called OP Chaudhary or OP, was appointed as the district collector in South Bastar (Dantewada) in the last week of March 2011. For about two months he was busy conducting elections for the vacant seat […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityDwarko Sundarani and Vivek, the chief editor of the Ground Report IndiaDwarko Sundarani, 90 years old, is a follower of Vinoba Bhave and has been serving the tribal and local communities in Gaya district of Bihar state for the […]
Visitors: 1,675 In this exclusive ground report, I write about the models of self-sustainability established by Dr. Debal Deb, founder of the rice seed banks Vrihi and Basudha. Dr Deb has a PhD from the Calcutta University, West Bengal and post doctorates from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Indian Institute of Science, […]
Visitors: 643 Children are not a project liability for funds for the Nilanchal Seva Pratishthan (NSP). On my visit to the NSP, I observed and realised that NSP is a family home for children. NSP provides residential and non-residential education to tribal and non-privileged children of the Puri region in Odisha including orphans, blind, deaf […]
Visitors: 420 There is a breeze of NGOs sponsored tribal heroes in the media, on the internet and also social networking platforms for the Bastar region. Most of these sponsored heroes were or are paid employees of the NGOs working in this region. But Nandlal Baba is a young tribal person, who does not […]
Visitors: 495 Bastar region of Chhattisgarh is a Maoist affected area thus without any doubt there are violations of human rights from either sides by government forces and Maoists. Human rights violations do not happen only by the government forces, they do happen by Maoists in the matter of common tribal people. It could […]
Visitors: 209 New York, January 31, 2012 The Indian government should prosecute members of the security forces for recent high-profile cases of torture, to send a message that such practices will no longer be tolerated, Human Rights Watch said today. Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers, long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the border […]
Visitors: 366 Goldy M. George Pursuing PhD in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, TISS Mumbai Dalit Activist, Chhattisgarh Prelude to the thematic discussion: Agriculture is the basis for development in an agrarian economy like India. In a third world country, where the economic growth index is relatively low, coupled with historical disparities […]
Freedom of Religion Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 22, 1978, seeks "to forbid conversions from one religion to another by the use of force or inducement or deceit or by any fraudulent means."
This Bill is in no way "against genuine conversions done with free consent and will." It Is meant to curb abuses, especially prevalent in the conversions of Adivasis and Harijans.
The Bill has provoked strong protests among some Christian leaders who are accusing it of being against the freedom of conscience guaranteed by the Constitution. Representatives of the Karnataka Christians Combined Action Committee recently called on the Governor and submitted a memorandum protesting against the Bill. They also "urged the Government to extend the privileges given to Scheduled Castes to Christians of Scheduled Caste origin." (D.H. March 21).
Visitors: 204 The “Environmental Health Club” of Khushi Centre for Rehabilitation and Research in its Endeavour to highlight the issues of Environmental Health, promote basic research and the relief/rehabilitation work in Bihar, Andhra, and Sri-Nagar & Uttarakhand. Now, it’s again a high time to serve our nation by doing the work for our own disaster […]
Visitors: 116 West BengalBanglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) from its inception has spent 14 long years in human rights arena. There were achievements, disappointments, dissolutions and despairs. But these deterrence; failed to divert us from our focus. From beginning to till date MASUM voicing for emancipation of human rights violation to establishing rights of the […]
Visitors: 235 Beirut There is an escalating pattern of physical attacks by Egyptian military and police officers against women and male protesters, journalists, and activists in Cairo, some of which are sexual in nature, Human Rights Watch said today. News reports and images of protesters in Cairo being stripped, beaten, and dragged through the street […]
Visitors: 186 Report by: Kirity RoySecretary Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) & National Convenor Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) Name of the victim: Ms. Kajal Halder, wife of Rabindra Nath Haldar, aged about-36 years, from Scheduled Caste community, by occupation-Housewife, residing at village-Simulpur, Police Station-Gaighata, District-North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Name of […]