Date of fact-finding 12 April 2022 Team members Advocate Ansar Indori (National Secretary) Rukhsar Ahmed (Journalist, Delhi) Advocate Ashutosh Mishra (Delhi State Vice President) Shoaib Ahmed (Delhi Pradesh Committee Member) Rukhsar (Social Activist) Background Karauli…
1. Drawing Attention to the Use of UAPA Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, has recently expressed concerns over the use of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act-UAPA in India. The Commissioner has…
21 oct 2011''There are many versions of Ramanayana.''Delhi University’s decision to withdraw renowned scholar A K Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana from the BA (Honours) syllabus goes against the liberal intellectual tradition that has been…
21 oct 2011 TERROR was never absent from the Sangh Parivar's techniques. The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has been repeatedly censured by commissions of inquiry for its complicity in communal riots. The Bharatiya Janata Party's…
21 oct 2011 The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has once again received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation working in West Bengal, concerning the case of 13-year-old girl, who was trafficked from…
21 oct 2011 Nandini Sundar Last weekend, I attended a wonderful rally by the Adivasi Mahasabha in Raipur – some 10-15 busloads of people came from Dantewada and Bastar alone, while large numbers came from…
21 oct 2011 An article by Mr N Jayaram* forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Two groups of Indians facing the gallows in India and two men executed in the United States, but vastly…
21 oct 2011 by Nilanjana Roy (I had just finished editing the chapter on censorship, part of my collection of essays on reading, when we heard that Delhi University had voted to drop Ramanujan's essay…
21 oct 2011Sheila sinks Moral Ma’am- Sena cubs cheer ‘bar dance’ numbersSAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI[. . .] For years, though, the senior Sena’s language has been rather rigid when it has come to dealing with anything…
21 oct 2011 The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has once again received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation working in West Bengal, concerning the murder of an innocent person who was attempting…