With an increasing death toll in protests in Kashmir, Amnesty International
calls on the Indian authorities to take urgent steps to ensure respect for
the right to life and to investigate past killings of demonstrators by
police.
With an increasing death toll in protests in Kashmir, Amnesty International
calls on the Indian authorities to take urgent steps to ensure respect for
the right to life and to investigate past killings of demonstrators by
police.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution Bill represents nothing less than an assault on constitutional democracy in the service of partisan advantage, and a consolidation of authoritarianism it would be too late to rue when its potential consequences begin to take effect.
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a network of human rights defenders and concerned citizens, held a three day meeting on “Challenges to Peace and Prospects for Cooperation in South Asia†at the India International Centre, New Delhi, from the 13th-15th September, 2010. The following statement was adopted at the conference.
Has India traded away livelihoods, health and environmental safeguards in secret negotiations with Japan?
A recent decision by Mr. Jairam Ramesh, [Union] Minister [of State] for Environment and Forests banning the mining of Bauxite in the Niyamgiri hill of Kalahandi district in Orissa (which is home to Tribal communities) by Vedanta Resources is a matter of immense relief to the people of the region and their supporters in this country and across the globe.
Another recent decision by the minister to scrap completely the Loharinag Pala dam under construction on the Bhagirathi river which is ecologically damaging the region, has also been welcomed by spontaneous people’s movements in Uttarakhand resisting the construction of this dam and others at various stages of planning and construction.
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