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Amnesty asks Orissa to stop excessive use of police force against Adivasis by J Venkatesan

Says India is obliged under international law to protect right to life  Wants impartial inquiry into reports of excessive use of force by police ‘Force must be used in accordance with international standards' Amnesty International (AI) has urged the authorities in Orissa to halt immediately unnecessary and excessive use of force by police and private civil militias on Adivasi (indigenous communities) and peasants protesting against the acquisition of their lands and habitats...

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Demographic dividend? by Nitin Desai

Population growth seems to have dropped off the public agenda these days. One reason for this is a twist in the old Malthusian argument that sees the rising proportion of persons of working age as a positive for growth. This shift in the age-distribution, it is argued, will stimulate savings as pressure on household and public budgets for the needs of dependent children comes down. Young workers are assumed to...

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Khap panchayat: signs of desperation? by Jagmati Sangwan

The number of cases in which the totally unconstitutional caste panchayats have openly defied the law of the land by issuing illegal diktats has increased manifold. In Haryana today, rapid capitalist transformation is accompanied by a regressive feudal consciousness. As education and political awareness spread among Dalits, women and backward sections, alongside there is a massive consolidation of caste (khap) panchayats in defence of the status quo. The number of cases...

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Reign of terror by TK Rajalakshmi

IN 2005, Gohana in Sonepat district of Haryana witnessed the torching of several Dalit homes by members of upper castes. Now Mirchpur, a village 58 kilometres away and located deep inside Hisar district, has met a similar fate. On April 21, as many as 18 homes belonging to Dalits from the Valmiki community here were set on fire by upper-caste youth over an alleged slight on the part of the...

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14-yr-old sold for Rs 40,000 to Gujarat farmers, rescued

Fourteen-year-old Marti is in a state of shock. She has just been rescued from the cotton fields of Gujarat where she was sold by her neighbours. She was made to work for hours without a break and tortured when refused to work. Daughter of one Shankar Meena of Palpadar village in Dungarpur district, she was playing outside her house when her neighbour Shanti Meena took her to a nearby market...

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