Religious leaders have a pivotal role to play in times of turmoil, during which they can provide a values-based glue to hold communities together and provide common ground for peace-making and problem solving, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday at a conference in Kazakhstan. You can do so by fostering dialogue; by using…
The commission also sought a compliance report with a proof of payment within six weeks from the city government. A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an employee of the city government’s LNJP Hospital on October 2, 2013. According to NHRC, the city government, in response to the commission’s show cause notice, had said “the…
The ethnic cleansing of minority Muslim community in the northern west province of Buddhist Myanmar is going on for the last four years. The world is watching it all silently. Beneath the ‘civilized’ veneer we find the embedded monster that edits responses to suit nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, race and tribe. Even after the world…
Human rights organisation Amnesty International India has sent a submission to the joint parliamentary committee on land bill, flagging its concerns about lack of consent, social impact assessment and consultation under the amended legislation. In its seven-page submission, the organisation said that, “if passed into law in its current form, the Bill will undermine the…
A school in Siliguri in north Bengal is giving sleepless nights to the team investigating the Saradha scam. The outgoing batch of Lincoln High School did their institution proud with a 97 per cent pass at the Indian School Certificate examinations. But the remaining 700 students and Enforcement Directorate officials are clueless about the fate…
Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC) on Friday rapped an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) for initiating proceedings under 107 CrPC against a dead man and directed the state home department to pay Rs20,000 compensation to the widow for human rights violations and agony she suffered. According to a petition filed by Ravindra Kumar, a resident of village…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended Manipur Government to Rs.5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Sorokhiabam Jibon Singh, who was killed in an encounter in Imphal on 2009. The NHRC has observed that there could be no justification for such excessive use of force even after assuming that…
The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered magisterial probes into 30 gun battles that took place in the State last year following a directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs that several encounters for which policemen were recommended for gallantry awards had not been probed. “According to the National Human Rights Commission guidelines, if anyone…
The program will be organised by Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE), an Indigenous Peoples NGO in Special Consultative Relations with ECOSOC of United Nations, and Co-Hosted by Indraprastha Public Affairs Centre (IPAC). Both are constituent members of the Coalition on Environment and Natural Resources (CENRs) which was set up in November 2012 to…
Continued crackdowns on human rights in Central Asia could backfire by encouraging extremist ideologies, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday, winding up a visit to the volatile former Soviet region. Ban chose Turkmenistan, viewed by human rights groups as one of the world’s most despotic and isolated regimes, to deliver a passionate…