The word ‘hunger’ does not appear in the 12th Plan Approach Paper even once, whereas according to the latest Global Hunger Index Report, India continues to be in the category of those nations where hunger is ‘alarming’. What is worse, India is one of the three countries where the hunger index between 1996 and 2011 has gone up from 22.9 to 23.7, while 78 out of the 81 developing countries...
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HRC directs Orissa to report on 'man-made' flood, civil society for flood plain management by Nageshwar Patnaik
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Orissa government asking it to submit a detailed report on the alleged "man-made" floods in the last in August-September. The disaster had officially claimed over 80 lives and damaged houses and agricultural lands in 21 districts. The NHRC's direction came following petition filed by Bhubaneswar-based India Media Centre, a voluntary organisation. Water resources secretary, chief engineer of irrigation department and Hirakud...
More »Picked up in July for ‘rioting,’ three Muslim schoolchildren still in jail by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Hope in sight finally with NHRC sending notice on the matter to SSP of Moradabad Nearly four months after they were detained by the police, three Muslim schoolchildren are still in the District Jail here, unable to get bail for an offence their distraught families claim they never committed. The children have been charged, among other things, with rioting and attempt to murder. But now, finally, hope seems in sight with the...
More »NHRC advisory group on Media set up
-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has set up an “Advisory Group on the Media and Human Rights,” consisting of 12 senior journalists, including Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu N. Ram. Formed as part of the media and outreach policy of the NHRC, the group will have regular interaction with the media and seek their enhanced and active role in the promotion and protection of human rights. Its terms of reference include:...
More »“Firing, bid to suppress Dalit assertion”
-The Hindu His party will raise issue with NHRC, Scheduled Castes panel The Paramakudi police firing was State-sponsored, brutal murder of six Dalits and an attempt to suppress and oppress the democratic form of Dalit assertion in the State, said John Pandian, founder president, Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK), here on Wednesday. Tension prevailed at Government Rajaji Hospital during his visit to meet those injured in the firing and rioting at Paramakudi and...
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