Visitors: 198 Name of the Victim(s): 1.Ms. Julekha Bibi, wife of Mr. Hanif Seikh 2. Mr. Hanif Seikh both are resident of Village- Puratan Degree, Post-Domkal, Police Station- Raninagar, District – Murshidabad, West Bengal. Name of the Perpetrator(s): One Sub Inspector of Mohanganj BOP with 2 constables of ‘A’ Company of Battalion Number-123 of Border […]
Visitors: 191 Name of the deceased: Sumanta Mondal, aged- about 22 years, son of- Mr। Nimai Mondal, Village & Post- Borderpara, Police Station- Raninagar, District- Murshidabad Name of the perpetrators – 1) Mr. Sailesh Kumar; Constable (CT No. 00722731) 2) Mr. Ramji Pandey; Inspector and Three other on duty Border Security Force (BSF) Personnel (name […]
Visitors: 172 I had moved to Bhopal in January 1983. Year 1984 was a difficult one for me. I was struggling to set up my business of interior designing and furniture with practically no capital. I did not have many clients. Of the few clients that I had, not many treated me with any level […]
Visitors: 170 The following is an online petition against discrimination of Dalit students in Indian universities. Please sign in this and make this campaign a success. This needs to be taken up seriously when hundreds of Dalit students are denied of their right to higher studies in most of the professional institutions. Also there are […]
Visitors: 205 I Have Seen Her Crying On June 13, 2010, we 12 Human Rights Activists of Jharkhand started our journey before the dawn. We had heard a horrible story about an Adivasi woman who was killed in crossfire between the security forces and the Maoists. Her name was Jasinta. She was mere 25 years […]
Visitors: 163 It was a black and white picture. That too, not of very clear resolution. But what was clear was that a body of a dead was being carried by security personnel. The hands and legs were tied to a pole, and the body was being carried out like that of a carcass by […]
Visitors: 125 New York The recent killing of three men by soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir in an apparent faked encounter with so-called militants underscores the urgency for the Indian government to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers (Jammu and Kashmir) Act (AFSPA), Human Rights Watch said today. Under the Act, which has been in […]
Visitors: 187 Name of the Victim: – Mr. Kushalya Seikh son of Late Harej Uddin Mondal aged about 53 years residing at Village- Bichpara, Post- Bamnabad, Police Station- Raninagar, District – Murshidabad, West Bengal. Name of the Perpetrator(s): Mr. Kamal Hossain, the commandant and 2. One constable of Bamnabad BSF camp under Battalion no. 105 […]
Visitors: 164 The Naxal threat has grown steadily but subtly, and unchecked by commensurate counter-action its severity now surpasses the capabilities of the current strategy, which does not have all stakeholders on board. The state cannot succeed simply by trying harder: it must now adopt a fundamentally new approach. An insurgency as long-drawn as the […]
Visitors: 158 The situation in the North Cachar Hills district is representative of the North- East. The DHD (Jewel) faction having come over-ground last year, the Army, supplemented by the para-military, remains deployed with a ceasefire in place and rebel groups placed in camps. The talks process has been initiated with former IB chief, PC […]
Visitors: 175 Date: 20.05.2010 To,National Human Rights Commission,Faridkot House, Copernicus marg,New Delhi- 110001. Complainant:Sandeep Jalan (advocate)Janhit Manch, Kuber Bhuvan, Bajaj Road, Vile Parle West, Mumbai- 400056. Respondent:Ministry of Law and Justice, 4th Floor, A-Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001. Phone : 23387557, 23384777, 23384617 | Fax : 011-23384241, 011-23387259, 011-23382733 Reg: ‘Burden’ of State authority in […]
Visitors: 160 Orissa, I am back from Orisa. My Orisa trip was great learning experience for me. Our research was on “Concerns of women in riots affected area” We were all together sixteen. three faculty, three project people and ten students from Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work. One team came from Loyala College – […]
Visitors: 184 To,The Acting ChairmanWest Bengal Human Rights CommissionBhabani BhabanAlipurKolkata – 27 Respected Sir, I would like to draw your kind attention into the fact that the Indo- Bangladesh bordering districts under state of West Bengal turn out to be a killing field for posted Border Security Force personnel. The whole attitude and acts by […]
Visitors: 151 To,Justice G. P, MathurThe Acting ChairmanNational Human Rights CommissionFaridkot HouseCopernicus MargNew Delhi-110001 Respected Sir, We are deeply concerned by the fact that the members and activists of one fraternal organization namely Keonjhar Integrated Rural Development and Training Institute (KIRDTI) came under police rage for their legitimate work in the forefront of human rights. […]
Visitors: 143 To Shri S.M. KrishnaHonorable MinisterMinistry of External AffairsGovernment of IndiaNew Delhi Dear Sir I want to draw your kind attention on couple of cases where Indian citizens are languishing in Bangladeshi prisons (Rajsahi Prison) after completing their terms and in couple of others the persons were framed into charges but without having the […]
Visitors: 159 ToThe Director GeneralBorder Security ForceBlock No. 10, CGO ComplexLodhi RoadNew Delhi – 3 Dear Sir I like to inform you about an outrageous incident committed by four BSF personnel upon one 45 year old married woman (name withheld). Our organization; MASUM received information that on 24/04/2010 at around 3 am while the victim […]
Visitors: 309 (please click for original article in Bulgarian) The Lost Illusions during the Years after 1989 The World in April 2010 What is Coming? I have twice experienced big disillusionment in my life – with “the real socialism” and with the “real” democracy, as I grew up during the socialism, experienced the transition, and […]
Visitors: 263 I appeared in the public life through my human rights works, writings and speeches. However, I reached to the larger audience when I had got a chance to appear in CNN-IBN and NDTV-24×7 debates on the issue of Naxalism last year. After these debates, I got immense positive and negative responses from across […]
Visitors: 194 On International Labor Day, Governments Should Pledge to Make Comprehensive Reforms New York, The reforms undertaken by Middle Eastern and Asian governments fall far short of the minimum protections needed to tackle abuses against migrant domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released in advance of May 1, International Labor […]
Visitors: 312 IIT Kanpur, It was the night of this April 19’2010, Snehal Ajit Indurkar, student of IIT Kanpur cut a slit into her left hand nerve to end her life just because of the fear of termination, if you are stunned please don’t be now because this is like the sun rises every morning […]
Visitors: 285 West Bengal, FEBRUARY 2006MASUM initiated National Project on Preventing Torture in India (NPPTI) undertaken by the People’s Watch, Tamil Nadu, supported by the European Union and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNSt). MASUM was responsible for implementing the project in West Bengal. Project was designed for 2006-2008. Objective was to ratify the UN CAT […]
Visitors: 178 West Bengal, It is alleged that Mr. Atiur Rahman was under rigorous custodial torture and subsequently shoot from service arms of BSF personnel on 21st March 2010 night near Saidapur village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. Even after that they never cared to take him to any doctor for medical aid and […]
Visitors: 147 The pressure is on to have India accept and promote Genetically Modified Organisms or GM plants and foods. The recurring theme of various reports, across the world in this regard is inconclusive on the long term benefits of GMO. One thing is clear, these new inter-species gene-spliced products would need large amounts of […]
Visitors: 210 New Delhi, Tragedy consumed the lives of so many CRPF Jawans recently in Dantewala in an ambush by Naxals. Media is busy with writings and debates and seminars are being held by concerned citizens – we love to debate issues. There is so much being speculated about how the perpetrators of the massacre […]
Visitors: 233 The Government of West Bengal must drop false charges against Kirity Roy and other human rights defenders and hold the State police accountable for harassment and intimidation, Amnesty International said today. Kirity Roy, Secretary of the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) – a human rights organization in West Bengal – was arrested by […]