-Livemint.com After being on the sidelines of Dalit and feminist movements for long, Dalit women are now standing up for their rights New Delhi: In 2008, seven women, aged 19-24, walked into a police station in Haryana’s Indri village in Kurukshetra district. Dressed in salwar-kameez with dupattas draped around their necks, they looked tired but confident, angry and brimming with questions. They wanted to meet the SHO and ask why no FIR...
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Government Has No Data on Lynching Cases, Union Minister Tells Rajya Sabha
-PTI The minister's response comes a day after the Supreme Court had asked parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of Mob lynching. New Delhi: The government does not maintain specific data on lynching incidents in the country, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. Union minister of state for home affairs Hansraj Ahir said the state governments were competent to deal with such offences under the existing laws. “The...
More »'Violence can't be allowed': SC condemns Mob lynchings, asks Parliament to make law -Bhadra Sinha
-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court was hearing a bunch of petitions on the recent lynching incidents in the country. New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked Parliament to come up with an anti-lynching law to tackle cow vigilantism and lynch Mobs even as it laid down preventive, remedial, and punitive measures against the backdrop of a spate of such incidents across the country. The measures laid down by the court also include steps to...
More »Hate crimes highest in UP, Gujarat second: Amnesty report -Piyush Rai
-The Times of India MEERUT: According to human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, in the first six months of 2018, 100 hate crimes have been committed against people from marginalised groups including dalits, Adivasis, members of racial or religious minority groups and transgender people across the country. Uttar Pradesh, with 18 such crimes, had the highest number among Indian states, followed by Gujarat with 13 cases, Rajasthan (eight) and Tamil Nadu...
More »Cloak on RTI bill -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph New Delhi: In the Lok Sabha bulletin for legislative business of the upcoming monsoon session, one bill stands out because it is the only one about which no details have been furnished. The bill seeks to amend the Right to Information Act of 2005, and the ironical opaqueness has alarmed transparency advocates who have mounted a pushback. As many as 18 bills are listed for introduction, consideration and passage in the...
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