3oth Nov 2020 New Delhi The National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) joined the protest held at the Sindhu border by the farmers and farmer unions collectively. The border has a heavy deployment of…
2 Indian states do not have human rights…
Friday, September 1st, 2006New Delhi - Thirteen years after a law providing for states to set up their own human rights commissions, 12 Indian states do not have one.Of the 16 that do, five states…
Disappearances increase in Asia, Amnesty says
Wed Aug 30, 2006 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Several hundred people in Pakistan have disappeared, apparently taken into detention in connection with the war on terrorism, human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.So called enforced…
The 'Vinayaka Chaturthi' Festival and Hindutva in Tamil…
C J Fullerr, Economic and Political Weekly, May 12, 2001Hindu Munnani March, Ganesh(a): Pillaiyar (Tamil), Vinayakar (Telegu). The principal annual festival of ‘Vinayaka’ or ‘Ganesha’ falls on the fourth day of the bright fortnight of…
Binu Murder : Life for six, Other Six…
Kozhikode, 1 Sept 2006Kozhikode: Six National Development Front (NDF) activists were awarded life imprisonment in the Eethullathil Binu murder case on Friday. Binu, 22, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) worker, was hacked to death…