We condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent murder of NREGA
activist Niyamat Ansari in Kope Gram Panchayat (Latehar District,
Jharkhand), as well as the attempted murder of his associate Bhukhan
Singh.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent murder of NREGA
activist Niyamat Ansari in Kope Gram Panchayat (Latehar District,
Jharkhand), as well as the attempted murder of his associate Bhukhan
Singh.
On the ill-fated day of March 23, 2003, 24 Kashmiri Pandits were cold-bloodily murdered by the militants in Nadimarg, District Shopian (then District Pulwama), and from the last fourteen years not a single person has been punished for the same. The role of Investigating Officer(s)/Agency (ies) is in question as they always give us cold shoulder whenever they are asked about their failure to identify and book the culprits who are responsible for this heinous crime.
Text of High Court of Delhi judgment pronounced on 9 March 2011 clears the documentary film ’Had Anhad’ for unrestricted public exhibition quashing the orders of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), which had both required certain cuts to be made before granting a certificate. The film is about Kabir and `his Ram’, which the film maker, Shabnam Virmani, explores through folk and sufi singers in the sub-continent. The judgment touches upon interesting questions of freedom of speech and expression, citizenship, speakable and the unspeakable, and implications thereof on the quality of democracy.
A joint open letter of 113 NGOs urge government delegations to the 16th UN Human Rights Council Session to support the growing consensus that the concept of “defamation†or “denigration of religions†is counterproductive to global efforts to combat discrimination against religious minorities and serves to entrench repression and violence against non-believers, members of religious minorities and political dissidents.
This article explores the erosion of secular public culture in the UK and its implications for minority women whose bodies have become the battleground for the control of community representation. It argues that struggles for equality and secularism now overlap and have taken on a sense of urgency because it is the human rights of women that are being traded in the various social contracts that are emerging between state and the religious right minority leaderships in the UK. The increasing communalisation (involving religious and community groups mobilising solely around religious identities) of South Asian populations, in particular Muslims, reflects a form of instrumentalisation of religion by the state which has severely constrained the public space available for women to mobilise around a rights-based agenda and has also significantly narrowed the choices of women of faith.
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