NCHRO deplores the ongoing harassment of Lawyers Collective New Delhi22-Jun-2019 Indira Jaisingh and Anand Grover NCHRO in no uncertain deplores the targeted criminalization the office bearers of Lawyers Collective including Senior Advocate Anand Grover and…
NCHRO strongly condemns the life imprisonment awarded to Sanjiv Bhatt as it smells of political revenge. New Delhi 22-Jun-2019 Sanjiv Bhatt NCHRO is gravely alarmed by the life imprisonment awarded to former IPS Officer Sanjiv…
Memories of conflict become long-term sectarian hatred only in very special circumstances, writes Tapan Raychaudhuri Refugees coming to India from Pakistan,1947 Professor Muhammad Habib, in his brilliant essay on Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, concluded…
The Washington Times, Shaikh Azizur Rahman, June 22, 2006CALCUTTA -- References to the beef-eating past of ancient Hindus have been deleted from Indian school textbooks after a three-year, high-pitched campaign by Hindu hard-liners.Hindus revere cows,…
Statesman News Service KOLKATA, June 23: Security for Taslima Nasreen has been tightened since yesterday following a threat issued by the imams of several mosques and some city-based fundamentalist organisations. They have said they “would…
The Hindu nationalists in India fail to realize that the unity that they wish to ensure is most threatened when it is pressed on others in a provocative manner. If history has any lessons, it…
Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, June 22, 2006The army would like you to believe that there is no gender bias within its ranks. But its lady officers have a different story to tell. They…
Statement by Mr. Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, to the World Urban Forum III (19-23 June 2006) in Vancouver ( Source:…
By Indo Asian News ServiceGeneva, June 20 (IANS) India has called for making the newly constituted UN Human Rights Council (HRC) 'a strong, effective and efficient body' where 'a new work culture of cooperation' will…
MGThe Indian People's Tribunal on Communalism in Orissa organized by the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT) held primary investigations during June 11-14, 2005. Persons from Hindutva organizations, like the Bajrang Dal,…