Jai Bhim in Bolpur
In the town of Bolpur, in the land of Tagore’s Shantiniketan, there lived a 28-year-old Raju Thandar from Dalit (Dom) Community at his in-laws’ house at Muchipara/ Darjipara with his…
Human Rights
Sedition And Corruption – Lessening Miscarriage Of…..
Single party rule at the centre has come after a gap of around three decades. Three decades ago the roles were in a reverse configuration from the present. The…
Who is afraid of APDR?
The Association for Protection of Democratic Right, better known as APDR was going to hold its belated (due to pandemic related restrictions) 28th biannual State Convention (রাজ্য সম্মেলন / राज्य…
Israel outlaws six Palestinian human rights groups, branding them “terrorist organisations”
On Friday, Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz signed a military order declaring six of the most prominent Palestinian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the occupied Palestinian territories “terrorist organizations.” The decree…
Custodial Death Is Not Just A Murder
In a democratic country like India, custodial death, being a regular occurrence, raises question of our system. Custodial Violence is never acceptable in our civilized society. But it is a…
“Undertrials” for how long? Guilty till proven innocent?
The plight of the undertrials in the jails: The majority of the undertrials in India belong to the disadvantaged sections of the society. The offences alleged to have been committed…
Arrest of Seven villagers in Mali Hill area of Odisha
We, members of Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan (Odisha), are deeply shocked and enraged with the vindictive attitude of the government of Odisha towards the tribals of the state. The government…
Radical Desi honours Sikh temple president for standing up for Indigenous peoples
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was presented with a medal on Sunday, September 12 at Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey. Vancouver-based online magazine Radical Desi, which covers alternative politics, gives out…
Release Batakrushna Swain
The Hon. Naveen Patnaik Chief Minister, Odisha Sub: Request for the release of Upakuliya Jami o Jangala Surakhya Samiti member Mr. Batakrushna Swain Honorable Sir, We the undersigned people, regret…
Reformism vs. Radicalism: On the Possibility of (Not) Creating Change within the Settler Colonial State
“Having Palestinians, Africans, Asians, Latinx, Muslims, LGBTQIA folks, etc., in the NYCP Dept. doesn’t make it less brutal, violent or corrupt,” writes Mawusi Ture, sister of the late Kwame Ture/Stokely…
Fighting Malta’s Rule of the Jungle: The Daphne Caruana Galizia Inquiry
The Public Inquiry into the murder of the resourceful journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia handed down its findings on July 29. Firm aim was taken at the Maltese State, which had…
The Political in ‘Political Prisoner’
It has been 500 days since Khalid Saifi’s incarceration, and 300 since Umar Khalid’s, in false UAPA cases; and a week since the custodial demise of Fr. Stan Swamy in…
Remove unconstitutional sections from statute
“There were 1,307 cases registered by the police, in the last 6 years, under Section 66A of Information Technology Act, 2000, after Supreme Court declared it as unconstitutional… … The…
Corruption of Police Devastates Human Lives
by Advocate Mohammad Shoaib and Sandeep Pandey That corruption is rampant in police department is a common experience. However, there is another form of corruption which devastates lives of individuals…
Medical Complicity With Torture In Israel
Introduction This paper concerns torture and medical complicity in its practice. In 2015, Amnesty International noted that 157 states had ratified the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), but 141 states…
The March Is Not Yet Over
Today is the first anniversary of the loss of John Lewis, a civil rights crusader. At the time of his death, Lewis was one of the last Selma-era civil rights…
No room for Dissent
In the post world war era, when the first wave of decolonisation happened and many countries were given their independence, India was the most prominent of those let go. Most…
Akhil Gogoi: A case of abuse of terrorist law
Almost all anti-CAA protestors are terrorists according to the Government of India and Governments of the states ruled by BJP or NDA coalition partner… the police in this state or…
Arrest of Medha Patkar, Jagdish Khairalia and others
Condemn the arbitrary arrest of workers of the Century Workers Union as well as activists Medha Patkar, Jagdish Khairalia and others : Call Maharashtra Police to Free All Arrested State…
Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison
The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name “Pardon Daniel Hale.” These words hung in the air on a recent…
CCTV could have prevented custodial murder
The rule of law is under a serious challenge since the inception of Constitution of India, as far as killings in police custody are concerned. The Supreme Court recently ordered…
Chhattisgarh government must restore health and human rights of people in Bastar
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), Chhattisgarh and Chhattisgarh Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and Right to Food Campaign (RTFC), Chhattisgarh are writing to the Chhattisgarh government…
Rally for jailed Indian scholars held in Canada
Close to the birthday of George Orwell and the 46th anniversary of Emergency in the world’s so called largest democracy, activists came together in Surrey on Sunday, June 27, to…
The UAPA Noose
It is now out in the open.There seems to be quite a lot of dissatisfaction in the higher judiciary about the burden placed on their shoulders by the rising number…
Together A Cry For Justice
Aisha Sultana, a native of Lakshadweep’s Chetlat island, is today one of India’s visible faces in the cry for justice! She is a well-known actor and director and an activist.…
Protests in Punjab on arrests of intellectuals and social activists
A most encouraging phenomena has emerged in Punjab in the last week with 4most qualitative protests engulfing Punjab in Bathinda , Amritsar ,Sangrur and Nawanshahr against the detention of the…
Appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson, NHRC: Another Move to Subvert & Destroy Democratic Institutions
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human…
India’s Ignorance of its Political Prisoners during Pandemic
The second wave in recent weeks has overwhelmed the healthcare system, leaving hospitals and people both struggling to cope with critical drugs and oxygen in short supply. The situation now…
A system buried 215 children at a former residential school in Canada
At the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Colombia, Canada, remains of 215 children were found buried. Some of the children were as young as three years old when…
Facts and Fiction of Firing in Silger (Bastar)
Written by Bela Bhatia and Jean Drèze Mass protests against the proliferation of CRPF camps have been happening all over Bastar during the last two years, without attracting much media…
PUCL Offers Condolence Message for Prof. Dinesh Mohan
PUCL feels a deep sense of loss over the sad demise of Prof. Dinesh Mohan on 21st May. Prof. Dinesh Mohan’s passing away marks the loss of a multifaceted personality:…
US Extradition of Alex Saab is Illegal & Unfounded: Lawyers & Legal Experts
Written by Saheli Chowdhury and Stephen Lalla Venezuelan businessman and diplomatic envoy Alex Saab, held in the African island nation of Cape Verde and facing extradition to the United States,…
Increasing Worldwide Demand for Release of Political Prisoners in Covid Times
On May 13 Thailand released data of record increase in Covid cases, but perhaps even more worrying was the fact that over half of the new cases were reported from…
African Human Rights Vs. Western Human Rights
If you ask those of us living in the Africa, almost all of us will tell you that the “human rights” that matter most are those that are basic to…
40th anniversary of police firing on tribals in Indravelli
On 40th anniversary of police firing on tribals in Indravelli in Adilabad let us rekindle their spirit with the ascendancy of proto –fascism today. It was one of the blackest…
Protest The Ban Of 16 Democratic Organisations In Telengana
CDRO strongly condemns the declaration of Civil Liberties Committee (CLC) and 15 other organisations by the Telangana state government as unlawful associations under Telangana Public security Act. The Telangana Government,…
Free Hidme Markam
1,000 + activists, academics, concerned citizens from 20+ states in India and across the globe write to Chief Minister Chhattisgarh. Call for immediate release of Hidme Markam and end state…
PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA
(The Press release is by way of a chronicle of the NIA Witch-hunt of Rights Defenders and documents the ongoing saga of the State’s Conspiracy to Silence Dissent) In an…
GASS condemns role of NIA to cover up the Vakapalli rape case
Bhubaneswar: The Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan (GASS) condemns the witch-hunting of the National Investigation Authority (NIA) officials against the human and democratic rights activists from Andra Pradesh and Telangana in…
Activist KV Biju thrashed for campaigning against BJP in Kerala
KV Biju, national coordinator of the Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh, one of groups under the umbrella of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha that has been leading the farmer protests on the borders…
NAPM condemns the fabricated FIRs and arbitrary raids on activists’ homes in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) condemns in the strongest possible terms the high-handed manner of ‘raids’ by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) at the homes of over 16 activists…
CDRO Condemns NIA Raids On Rights Activists
Co-ordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) is strongly condemning the raids of NIA(National Investigation Agency) on the houses of Rights Activists and activists belongs to various peoples organisations. NIA has…
The Draconian Sedition Law in Independent India
The Indian Sedition Law owes its origin to The British Sedition Act of 1661, an Act of Parliament of England which was passed as an Act for safety and Preservation of…
Wrongful detention or conviction: Victims’ compensation
On March 03, 2021, The New Indian Express carried a news headline: ‘Falsely accused of rape, UP man freed after spending 20 years in jail’ - a very good news…
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Injustice Industrial Complex, and the Human Miasma
As his 67th birthday nears, and Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal faces challenging and potentially fatal health crises, his legal case is still slowly winding its way through the arduous…
International Human Rights Organizations write to Rutgers University in support of Dr Audrey Truschke
Over two dozen US and international civil and human rights organizations have expressed solidarity with Dr Audrey Truschke, Associate Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University against the ongoing systematic…
Free Sanaa Seif !
It is outrageous from the beginning that she was arrested and prosecuted instead of investigating the physical assault against her… The sentence shows the status of the Egyptian judiciary today, which…
Rally against state violence against women in India held in Surrey
On the eve of International Women’s Day, South Asian activists came together to raise their voices against gendered repression in the world’s so called largest democracy. Organized by the Indians…
Caught in the crossfire: Young activists targeted for challenging a crony capitalist government
Sedition, said Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was the “prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen". He said this in the…
Free Malik! Save The Bay View Newspaper!
Sometimes a particular fight weaves together so many strands of the oppressive fabric of the USA that it is difficult to figure out what is key and where to begin.…
Islam And Human Rights
Discussion of Islam in Western languages, and latterly much of it in the languages of the Islamic world as well, is bedeviled by polemic and reductionism. Islam itself always seems…
Release Climate Activist Disha Ravi
News that Disha Ravi, a young woman and climate activist from Bengaluru, has been “picked up” - in what is referred to as a “closely guarded operation” of the Delhi…
Pluralism Does Not Justify The Violation Of Human Rights – India Are You Listening?
On October 2019 Delivering a lecture on the "Indian Economy: Challenges and Prospects" at the Deepak and Neera Raj Centre on Indian Economic Policies , Columbia University's School of…
Condemn the arrest and custodial sexual violence faced by Nodeep Kaur!
Campaign Against State Repression demands the immediate release of Nodeep Kaur and strict action against the Haryana Police for targeting workers in the Kundli Industrial Area! On January 12th, the…
2020 Witnessed the Deliberate Destruction of Democratic Rights Organizations in India
The large scale destruction of lives and livelihoods in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and its inept handling by the government has been accompanied by another sort…
UNHRC 46th Session In February/March 2021 – Judgement day for Sri Lanka and its War Victims
The forthcoming 46th UNHRC Sessions in February/March 2021 holds the key to uphold accountability, justice and human rights in Sri Lanka while halting Sri Lanka’s history of evasions and denials …
In a country run by Chaivala, many street vendors fail to get their rights!
Sudihrbhai (name changed) is a tea vendor in Ahmedabad and since the time first curfew was imposed he has been struggling to survive. Now when the country has opened up,…
Human Rights Day 2020 and Students’ Rights in India An Introspection
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year. It is the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adapted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.…
Are there any Human Rights of a Missing Soldier?
As we celebrate the International Human Rights Day, it is worthwhile to ask if a missing soldier of the country has any of rights that we commemorate with fanfare. This…
Rights Organisations Demand Quashing of UAPA, Sedition Charges Against Activists
In November, 67 Adivasi, Dalit and human rights activists were booked by the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana police under UAPA and charged with sedition for alleged “maoist links”. In late-November,…
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