Ranjan Solomon is a human rights defender and social activist. He is Working President of NCHRO-Goa Chapter India: Turning into a Nation without Law, Order, or Justice Anand Teltumbde, a well-known writer, academic, civil rights…
Gujarat police chief's appointment challenged
[ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 08:13:33 pmIANS ]NEW DELHI: The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a civil rights organisation, has moved the Supreme Court questioning the appointment of P.C. Pande, who was Ahmedabad's police…
Kerala youth murdered in Mangala Express.
Mangalore.An army man from Kerala was found dead in the general compartment of Mangala Express on Tuesday morning.The youth's dead body was found lying near the door with head injuries,when the train had been reaching…
Social groups, rights activists condemn Kashmir killings
Centre must examine issues of minorities in different parts of the country# Terror acts aimed at dividing people# Government should conduct public hearings in the StateNEW DELHI: Several social groups and human rights activists have…
Human Rights Groups Urge Independent Investigation
02 May 2006 22:14:54 GMT, Source: Human Rights Watch(New York, May 1, 2006) � In a letter sent today to the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation, Ensaaf, Human Rights Watch, Redress, and the Center for…
Iran's hardliners go ballistic over stadium sex threat
Stefan Smith, AFP, April 30, 2006TEHRAN -- Iran's hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is coming under heavy fire at home - and it's not because of the worsening international standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.Last…
Kannada politics in Kerala constituency
Naveen Nair CNN-IBN, Tuesday , May 02, 2006 at 19:09Manjeshwaram (Kerala): Twenty-six-year-old Bashir Ahmed is a school dropout, but he's an extremely busy person these days.It's elections times in Kerala and politicians are looking for…
Geelani seeks 'impartial' probe into Doda killings
Srinagar, May 2, 2006, Press Trust of India, The hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday sought an impartial probe by an international human rights organisation into the killing of Hindus in…
Qatari rights group warns of labor abuse
May 2, 2006DOHA -- An officially-sanctioned Qatari rights group warned on Tuesday of the less-than-human working conditions of the expatriate labor force in the Gulf state and urged the government to take action."The abuse of…