The Spate of Arbitrary Arrests and Violence under the Uttar Pradesh Regime - Fact-Finding Report Lucknow Fact Finding Report Illegal Arrests and Violence in Lucknow Purpose of the investigation:Reason for a large number of arrests…
Preti Taneja: Global War On Minorities
Preti Taneja, October 02, 2006 Preti Taneja is a freelance human rights journalist who works with NGO Minority Rights Group International. She has written on the plight of the Batwa people in the Great…
Groundwater Belongs to People, Not to Firms
By Bobby Ramakant, The Seoul Times ColumnistDirector of RFSTE, Dr. Vandana Shiva and NAPM Leader Magsaysay Awardee 2002, Dr. Sandeep PandeyGroundwater belongs to the people, and not to corporations, nor does it belong to the…
Fasting Manipuri woman shifts protest to Delhi
04 Oct 2006, Source: ReutersBy Biswajyoti DasGUWAHATI, India, Oct 4 (Reuters) - An Indian woman who has been on hunger strike for six years against human rights abuses in the remote northeastern state of Manipur…
Bhagat Singh: A Perennial Saga Of Inspiration
Ashok Dhawale, People's Democracy, October 01, 2006THE life and work of Bhagat Singh and his death by hanging at the age of 23 at the hands of British imperialism on March 23, 1931, has been…