-IANS The NHRC on Tuesday said it has rescued 101 bonded labourers from Madhubani in Bihar, after an NGO complained they were being made to work forcefully on agricultural lands and not being paid minimum wages. The 101 labourers from 38 families were Musahars, a community classified as Scheduled Caste. The rescue operation was carried out following a complaint received from an NGO in December 2014. The labourers have been provided relief under various...
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Asbestos: Govt Kow-Tows to Corporate Lobbies -D Raghunandan
-Newsclick.in The government in India continues to kow-tow to corporate lobbies at the cost of the environment and public health including occupational health. While always an integral part of ruling class politics in India, as witnessed in the seemingly never-ending saga of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, this has reached new heights under the BJP government led by PM Narendra Modi which is rapidly dismantling even the already weak environmental regulatory structure....
More »Centre Asked to Pay Compensation to Mother of Imphal Woman Shot by Assam Rifles -A Vaidyanathan and Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ordered the Centre to pay a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh to the mother of Thangjam Manorama, a woman shot brutally to death by soldiers of the 17 Assam Rifles in 2004. The NHRC has also recommended that Rs. 10 lakh be paid to the family of Manorama. The death of the 34-year-old woman was followed by vociferous protests in the state that...
More »Over 400 farmers have committed suicide in Telangana since its formation -M Suchitra
-Down to Earth National Human Rights Commission has sought report from the state The K Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana seems to have failed to deliver on its promise of reforming the crisis-ridden farm sector in the state. Unofficial figures suggest that more than 400 farmers have committed suicide in the past six months. Telangana, the youngest state in the country, came into existence on June 2 this year. Rao and other leaders...
More »Farmer Suicides: NHRC Raps State Over Report Delay
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government's stoic silence over reasons that have driven farmers across the State to end their lives has drawn the wrath of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). With the Government not even bothering to submit a report in this connection as desired by the rights panel since last two years, the latter has served a six-week ultimatum to the Chief Secretary to comply with the...
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