-Counterview.net The National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL), a civil rights group, has compiled what it has called “landmark cases of caste-based sexual violence” between 1985 and 2020 to mark the first anniversary of the notorious Hathras gangrape case, which led to the death of a young Dalit woman in September 2020. Compiling 12 cases from 10 States, the 15-page report, released by NCWL says, the effort is to highlight how...
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More than 2.57 lakh people evicted in India during the pandemic; 21 people evicted from their homes every hour, says latest report
-Press release by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) dated 9th September, 2021 Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), today, released its new report on forced evictions in India. Titled, Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic, this report presents comprehensive data and an analysis of forced evictions and demolitions of homes of the urban and rural poor across the country in 2020. It...
More »"Make Farm Laws Report Public": Panel Member To Chief Justice NV Ramana -Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV Anil Ghanwat, who was nominated to represent the farming community in the committee, wrote to Justice NV Ramana, "I feel that the report has not been given any Attention by the Hon'ble Supreme Court" . New Delhi: A member of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on farm laws has written to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, seeking that a report submitted on the issue be made public. The panel had submitted...
More »Fooling the reader: How Indian papers and magazines disguise ads as news -Tanishka Sodhi
-Newslaundry.com India Today’s ‘Focus’ and ‘Impact’ features are a case in point. If it looks like a news report, reads like a news report and is bundled with several other news reports, it must be a news report. Right? Wrong. It could as easily be an advertisement, only you wouldn’t notice if you don’t pay close Attention. And that is really the idea: the ad is packaged as a report so you wouldn’t realise...
More »Here's What Needs to Change for Sanitation Workers in India -Nirat Bhatnagar, Anahitaa Bakshi & Keshav Kanoria
-TheWire.in Improved data collection and reporting, appropriate protective gear and better government policies can all help address the problems of sanitation workers. Over the last seven or eight years in India, sanitation has been a key focus of government programmes. Several thousand crores have been spent on the issue and there has been remarkable progress in terms of toilets constructed. The sanitation problem has also received ample Attention in the development sector,...
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