Visitors: 335 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 […]
Visitors: 404 New York The report of the Sri Lankan government’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) disregards the worst abuses by government forces, rehashes longstanding recommendations, and fails to advance accountability for victims of Sri Lanka’s civil armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The serious shortcomings of the 388-page report, which was posted […]
Visitors: 509 Washington, DC The US Congress should not approve rules to restrict the right of Cuban Americans to visit relatives on the island, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed restrictions – which have been proposed as part of larger budget negotiations –would limit the number of visits Cuban Americans could make to the […]
Visitors: 443 Report by: Kirity RoySecretary Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) & National Convenor Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) Particulars of the victims: (1) Mr. Lalchand Mondal, son of Late Najir Mondal; (2) Mr. Saiful Mondal, son of Late Alimuddin Mondal and (3) Mr. Engraj Mondal, son of […]
Visitors: 617 Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) observed international human rights day with due revere and grit. MASUM organized human rights fairs at Tentulia in 24 Parganas (north), Baharampur in Murshidabad and Kolkata to observe the day. MASUM during the observance reiterated their stand on the issues relating with the citizens living along the Indo- […]
Visitors: 363 The Centre for Development Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in collaboration with Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore and Institute for Economic Growth (IEG) with support from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is organizing a two-day National Consultative Meeting on the above theme during 15-16 December, 2011 at TISS, […]
Visitors: 726 Report by: Kirity RoySecretary Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) & National Convenor Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) Particulars of the victim:- Mr. Prasanta Mahato, son of Mr. Srimanta Mahato, residing at village-Jarulia, Police Station-Jhargram, District-Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. Particulars of the perpetrators: – The involved police personnel of Jhargram Police […]
Visitors: 243 3rd December 2011 To Mr. Satyabrata Pal, IFS The Hon’ble Member NHRC Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg New Delhi – 1 Sir I want to draw your urgent attention towards one of my communiqué to you, Chief Minister, Chief Secretary of West Bengal, Principal Secretary (Home) West Bengal, ADG & IGP (law & Order) […]
Visitors: 347 Appeal by: Dr. V. Pugazhenthi MBBS, 1/187, Mudhaliyar Street,Sadras, Kanchipuram District,Tamil Nadu, India 603 102Ph: 8870578769 Sub: False Charges filed on me to curtail my professional and democratic duty to warn the people I am serving about the ill effects of the nuclear radiation around the Kalpakkam Nuclear Power PlantI am a medical […]
Visitors: 269 Name of the victim–Mr. Gautam Tudu, son of Mr.Surendranath Tudu, a resident of Laxmanpur village, P0-Korkora,Police Station-Binpur, in Jhargram, in the district of West Midnapur, West Bengal, India. Perpetrators– The involved police personnel of Jhargram police station and the involved jawans of the Joint Force operating in Jhargram. Date and time of the […]
Visitors: 454It has now been confirmed that the Anna Hazare’s-led so-called ‘second freedom struggle’—as some sections of the media have mistakenly chosen to call it—has close links with the RSS. From conceptualizing this media-propelled movement to successfully organizing it, the RSS, it appears, played a key role in it. This being the case, it is […]
Visitors: 344 29 September 2011 Two separate attacks on civilians in Balochistan highlight the failure of Pakistan to tackle escalating insecurity in the region, said Amnesty International. Yesterday, Baloch politician Abdul Salam was assassinated in the city of Khuzdar by unknown assailants. Abdul Salam was a human rights defender who worked on behalf of hundreds […]
Visitors: 334 29 September 2011 Two separate attacks on civilians in Balochistan highlight the failure of Pakistan to tackle escalating insecurity in the region, said Amnesty International. Yesterday, Baloch politician Abdul Salam was assassinated in the city of Khuzdar by unknown assailants. Abdul Salam was a human rights defender who worked on behalf of hundreds […]
Visitors: 320 26 September 2011 Saudi Arabia must take immediate steps to end all discrimination against women in the kingdom, Amnesty International said today following moves to give women the right to vote. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that women will have the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the […]
Visitors: 341 26 September 2011 Saudi Arabia must take immediate steps to end all discrimination against women in the kingdom, Amnesty International said today following moves to give women the right to vote. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that women will have the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the […]
Visitors: 297 28 September 2011 The 11-year sentence handed down to leading human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is another blatant attempt by the Iranian government to crush human rights organizations, Amnesty International said today. Narges Mohammadi, the Executive chairperson of Iran’s Centre for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), was sentenced yesterday after her conviction for “propaganda […]
Visitors: 336 28 September 2011 The 11-year sentence handed down to leading human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is another blatant attempt by the Iranian government to crush human rights organizations, Amnesty International said today. Narges Mohammadi, the Executive chairperson of Iran’s Centre for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), was sentenced yesterday after her conviction for “propaganda […]
Visitors: 298 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States have made terrorism an international issue. In spite of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expenditure of trillions of dollars in international efforts to curb terrorism, world does not appear to be safer than before. However, in the process, dignity and civil rights of […]
Visitors: 243 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States have made terrorism an international issue. In spite of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expenditure of trillions of dollars in international efforts to curb terrorism, world does not appear to be safer than before. However, in the process, dignity and civil rights of […]
Visitors: 254 Prof Ram Puniyani (Rtd) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Life is full of strange paradoxes. Narendra Modi undertook fast for three days for Sadbhavna (Harmony), to mark complete peace, unity and harmony (Sept 2011). This came in the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict which has asked the trial court to examine all […]
Visitors: 290 Prof Ram Puniyani (Rtd) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Life is full of strange paradoxes. Narendra Modi undertook fast for three days for Sadbhavna (Harmony), to mark complete peace, unity and harmony (Sept 2011). This came in the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict which has asked the trial court to examine all […]
Visitors: 282 Comprising of the 8 states of Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal, North East is India’s one of the most culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse region with over 205 ethnic tribes and about 175 linguistic groups. Each state in the region has its own history, cultural resources and socio-political strengths […]
Visitors: 276 Kirity RoySecretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM)National Convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) 40A, Barabagan Lane (4th Floor), Balaji Place, Shibtala, SrirampurHooghly 712203West Bengal Faizuddin Biswas, 87 year old son of Late Nasheruddin Biswas, of Dayarampur Village, under Jalangi P.S. of the Murshidabad district, is an old friend, well-wisher, supporter of […]
Visitors: 250 Kirity RoySecretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM)National Convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) 40A, Barabagan Lane (4th Floor), Balaji Place, Shibtala, SrirampurHooghly 712203West Bengal Kanai Mondal threatened by the BSF: In a shocking turn of affairs Human Rights Defender faces constant threat by the BSF personnel for keeping in touch with […]
Visitors: 248 Kirity RoySecretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM)National Convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI) 40A, Barabagan Lane (4th Floor), Balaji Place, Shibtala, SrirampurHooghly 712203West Bengal Kanai Mondal threatened by the BSF: In a shocking turn of affairs Human Rights Defender faces constant threat by the BSF personnel for keeping in touch with […]