Drone Aerial Bombing on the People of the Country is an Act of Genocide!
Stop the Air War being waged by the Indian Army against Tribal villages on the borders of Chhattisgarh and Telangana CDRO Fact Finding Team At 11 AM on 11 January…
Chhattisgarh
Healing The Heart Of Darkness
Chhattisgarh state has been a battleground for two conflicting world-views and two models of development that are at loggerheads with each other. Successive governments, representing the interests of global and…
Questionable Legality Of The Surrender Process In Chhatisgarh: The Podiyam Panda ‘Surrender’
The Podiyam Panda ‘surrender’ is the first one being challenged before a court. The entire experience shows the questionable legality of the surrender process in Chhatisgarh. In the habeas case…
‘Bearing Witness: Sexual Violence in South Chhattisgarh’ – Book by WSS Released
Mumbai Press Club, March 10 2017: Bastar Solidarity Network, Mumbai organised the book release of “ Bearing Witness : Sexual Violence in South Chhatisgarh” on 10th Mach 2017. The book…
IGP Kalluri Asked To Proceed On Leave: A Necessity, Not A Virtue
IGP Kalluri, the man alleged to have committed untold atrocities on clueless tribal people in Bastar, and the scores of human rights activists who have tried to intervene time and…
At Last Some Action Against IG Kalluri Of Bastar
WSS welcomes the actions taken by the Government of Chhattisgarh to restore its credibility and regain the confidence of the citizens of Bastar. In a series of decisive administrative actions…
Restore The Rule Of Law In Bastar, Demand Concerned Citizens
This is an appeal for restoration of the rule of law in Bastar (Chhattisgarh), assured access without interference to any persons concerned with human rights abuses in the area, and…
TISS Students In Solidarity With Adivasis In Bastar, Fighting Against Corporate Loot And State Repression
We, the concerned students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai condemn the continuing state repression of adivasis and recent attack on human rights activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar,…
NAPM Condemns State-Sponsored Mob-violence On Bela Bhatia And Human Rights Activists, Academics And Adivasis In Bastar
The National Alliance of People’s Movements strongly condemns the multiple, brazen acts of intimidation directed at well-known academic and activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar including the most recent attack a…
Fact Finding Report On Attack On Lawyers In Chhattisgarh Released
On 24th January, 2017 a demonstration and Hall meeting was organized by the INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE’S LAWYERS (IAPL) in Mumbai to mark the “International Day of the Endangered Lawyer”.…
Social Activist Bela Bhatia Attacked At Home In Bastar, Asked To Leave In 24 Hours
Just a couple of days after she helped a team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to investigate complaints of rapes by the security forces near Bijapur (South Chhattisgarh),…
Bastar Police Continue Their Vendetta Against Women Human Rights Defenders
Clearly rattled by the mounting body of evidence of blatant violations of the rule of law and Constitutional rights under the cover of anti-Maoist operations, the Bastar police has launched…
CDRO Condemns The Arrest Of Fact Finding Team
CDRO strongly condemns the arrest of a 7 member Fact Finding team by the Telangana police at Dummagudem village of Bhadrachalam district on 25th December, 2016 at 6 pm and…
Arrest Of The Entire Team Of Civil Rights Activists Deplorable
We are stunned by the temerity of the state to arrest well known civil rights activists while on the way to Bastar for fact finding into the recent encounter killings.…
Stop The Witch Hunt Against Prof. Nandini Sundar, Prof. Archana Prasad And Others: PUCL
The People’s Union of Civil Liberties strongly condemns the action of the Chhattisgarh police in registering an FIR (Cr. No. 27/2016 PS Tongpal dated 5.11.2016) against DU Professor Nandini Sundar,…
FIR Against Nandini Sundar And Others Is A Clear Act Of Vengeance
Press release by Campaign for Peace and Justice in Chhattisgarh (CPJC) and Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) Giving a whole new turn to the on-going attacks on…
FIR Filed By Chhattisgarh Police Against Human Rights Activists Is Sheer Vendetta
We the Undersigned, strongly condemn the absurd charges of‘criminal conspiracy and murder’ against highly respected academics and social activists by the Chhattisgarh police in the case of murder of Shamnath…
A Trail Of Blood And Pain.. Field Notes From Bastar
Sukli Hemla of Palnar village (Bijapur) remembers that as a widowed woman, she had done everything to save her son when he would fall ill during his childhood. But when…
Will The Music Be Heard Again In Chhattisgarh?
There are many of us educated urbanites who haven’t even heard about places like the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. The reasons are obvious. The mainstream media hardly reports about the…
“In Bastar, A Man Dies Once, But A Woman Dies Twice”
“In Bastar, a man dies once, but a woman dies twice, once when she’s stripped of every ounce of her dignity, paraded, brutalized by a gang of uniformed mercenaries;…
Chhattisgarh Is Burning: Where’s The Outrage?
I woke up the next morning to the atrocious news of gangrape and murder of Madkam Hidme, an Adivasi girl in Sukma district’s village Gumpad. She was picked up from…
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