Human Rights

From Drop Box

New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Calling the Emergency a 'sad period in India's history when we nearly lost independence', noted journalist and civil rights activist Kuldip Nayar says 'the Emergency still exists informally in the country in different forms as the rulers, with the full support of the bureaucracy, police and other sections, indulge in authoritarian and anti-democratic acts'.

Washington, June 25 (IANS) Since the Second World War, the use of rape as a weapon of war has assumed strategic importance and is now a deliberate military strategy, argue researchers.

From NCHRO

Kollam: A Vasu, noted social activist and state committee member of National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) asked the civil society and human rights activists to come forward against the moves by Karnataka government to frame up faked charges against Ma’dani, chairman of Kerala based People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The international human rights group Amnesty International today said the court's verdict on the Bhopal gas tragedy is "too little, too late".

"These are historic convictions, but it is too little, too late. Twenty-five years is an unacceptable length of time for the survivors of the disaster and the families of the dead to have waited for a criminal trial to reach a conclusion," Amnesty director of global issues Audrey Gaughran said in a statement in London today.

Mumbai: The indiscriminate police firing on Muslims who were protesting against a poster depicting the image of Prophet Muhammad on May 6 in Dhule town of Maharashtra suggests that the police came with a pre-determined mind to ‘teach a lesson' to Muslims. The community is still frightened as their members though appeared before the fact finding team requested anonymity.