Basics of Human Rights
Basics of Human Rights
Topics issues: the UN Convention against Torture, preventing discrimination and violence against women and girls, members of religious minorities, and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, caste-based discrimination prevention of religious violence and measures to avoid excessive use of force by security officers.
religious violence, arbitrary deprivation of nationality, indigenous peoples’ rights and women’s rights. Laws that discriminate against Muslims and LGBTI community, such as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.
freedom of expression and assembly, human rights defenders,attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, , right to health, right to privacy. laws that threaten the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act and Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,
right to health, right to privacy, religious violence, arbitrary deprivation of nationality, indigenous peoples’ rights and women’s rights.
the national and state human rights commissions and the increasing dilution of their powers and independence.
Much to the chagrin of environmentalists, citizen groups, and local fisherfolk who have had their lives disrupted. While environmental activists believe the project will irretrievably harm the ecology, the fisherfolk fear they won’t be provided adequate compensation for the loss of livelihood.
Over the past four months, their lives have been upturned by the ongoing work to reclaim the sea for the Coastal Road project, and they fear what it’ll yet bring.
“Severe injustice has been done to us. They’ve taken away our homes and our livelihood,” says Ganesh Armadeva, a fisherman who has five boats in the area. “We aren’t getting income from anywhere. It has been so many years since our country has got freedom, but we still don’t have the right to speak up.”
However, the state government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, unsurprisingly, hail the project as a gamechanger for the megacity.
Though the BMC had been issued clearances to reclaim 90 hectares of the sea, it claimed last year that it needed 21 additional hectares. In response, an expert committee of the union environment ministry approved an amendment to the clearance for the project. Once it is ratified by the central government, the BMC will have the authority to reclaim all 111 hectares.
The reclamation work is changing the flow of the water and shifting the tides, the fisherfolk point out, and this will harm Mumbai during monsoons when the city tends to get flooded.
“Our beaches will go underwater, the currents will change, the shoreline will start eroding faster, there will be loss of biodiversity, and the livelihood of fishermen will be destroyed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56561095 the 68-day shutdown - which the University of Oxford termed the world's strictest - proved devastating for the poor, costing them jobs and, in some cases, their lives.
All services, expect hospitals, pharmacies and groceries, closed. Offices, schools, colleges and all public transport was suspended. Flights in and out of India were stopped.
The poor, especially undernourished children and pregnant women who rely on government programmes, found it difficult to access benefits. Immunisation programs were halted. People suffering from serious illnesses struggled to access crucial health services even in urban areas such as Mumbai and Delhi.
But the hardest hit were informal workers, who make up the bulk of India's workforce - from domestic helps to street vendors to construction workers. They were suddenly left out of work and with no guarantee of when they would start earning again.
Experts believe the lack of consultation ahead of the lockdown led to local governments being ill-prepared for the exodus of migrant workers from cities to villages. Without any public transport, millions of them began walking them home and many died on the way in accidents or due to hunger and exhaustion.
On Tuesday, March 2nd, a Dalit RTI activist was allegedly hacked to death inside his home by a group of ‘upper’-caste Kshatriyas in Sanodar village of Ghogha taluka in Bhavnagar district in Gujarat.
A month ago, Boricha, who was primarily a farmer, had complained against the Kshatriyas at the Ghogha police station, but sub-inspector P.R. Solanki did not register an FIR.
Recently, Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA from Gujarat was suspended from the state assembly for “indiscipline” after he repeatedly raised the issue of the murder of a Dalit RTI activist.
In an interview with The Wire, Mevani discusses the case of the 50-year old RTI activist. He also discusses how the police and the larger apparatus of law enforcement remain unable to protect Dalits from atrocious crimes. He notes that it was a failure of the Atrocities Act and the state of Gujarat that led to the killing of Boricha.
'The Indian State operates, undoubtedly, with caste-class bias,' he adds.
Mevani also highlighted that the 'BJP-RSS-ABVP cadre has conveyed without conveying that anything can be done against Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims,' with impunity.
Mevani also discusses the way forward for Dalits and marginalized communities in the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz9Rgh4E2vg
Amrabhai Boricha, the 50-year-old activist, was allegedly attacked with spears, iron pipes and swords in Sanodar village, his family members told the newspaper. The attack on his life came even though he was under police protection after he reportedly recieved death threats, according to The Times of India.- https://www.thequint.com/news/india/dalit-activist-killed-in-gujarat-for-refusing-to-withdraw-old-case
ignesh Mevani @jigneshmevani80
ये है भावनगर के कलेक्टर का हाल! अपना काम न करने की शर्म भी नही, ना ही पीड़ित परिवार के लिए कोई सहानभूति। किस के कहने पर आरोपी PSI सोलंकी को बचाया जा रहा है? ऐसा तो क्या जानता है ये PSI को पूरी सरकारी मशीनरी, यहां तक कि कलेक्टर भी चुप्पी साधे हुए है? #JusticeForAmrabhai
The Andhra Pradesh High Court stayed (on March 8, 2021) the demolition of houses in villages falling in the way of the Indira Sagar Polavaram Irrigation project, popularly called the Polavaram multi-purpose project, in East and West Godavari districts of the state.
“The implementation of LARR and settling of claims under the Forest Rights Act has been ignored. They are forcing people out of their houses and demolishing them in front of their eyes.” Forest dwellers, under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) [FRA] Act, 2006, cannot be displaced unless their rights have been settled under the law. The petitioner (Andhra Pradesh-based environmental justice non-profit Search for Action and Knowledge of Tribal Initiative (Sakti)), however, told the court that 520 individual claims covering an extent of 2,773.02 acres were pending at sub-divisional level committee in Chintoor and VR Puram blocks.
A 2015 High Court order had stated that until the provisions for rehabilitation under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR) were implemented, the fixation of gates of the dam could not take place.
https://www.newsclick.in/are-polavaram-affected-tribal-communities-short-changed-govt-their-land
March 16, the Andhra Pradesh High Court issued a notice upon the state government to clarify within eight days if project-affected families are actually being provided with decent rehabilitation and resettlement facilities before being evicted from their habitations.
.. PIL lists a plethora of violations in the execution of the Polavaram project. It has been alleged that several families are being denied rehabilitation and resettlement despite their dwellings falling within a surface distance of 100 metres from the full reservoir level of the Polavaram project in contravention to an Andhra Pradesh government order issued in April 2005. Even though eviction has started in habitations, the government is yet to finalise several claims made by tribal communities over forest rights in areas that will ultimately be submerged underneath the reservoir.
“Even though rights of tribal communities are being violated when it comes to acquiring their land, the government has failed to rein in unscrupulous non-tribal people who are acquiring compensations through illegal means. I
"Matter Is Too Serious" SC Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Alleging Cancellation Of 3 Crore Ration Cards For Not Linking With Aadhaar & Subsequent Starvation Deaths https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-cancellation-of-3-crore-ration-cards-aadhaar-central-government-171292
https://www.landconflictwatch.org/
Land Conflict Watch is a data-research project. We map and analyse ongoing land and resources conflicts in India.
The political economy of Farmers agitation:
At a recent informal KICS sharing, Rajni Bakshi raised the question: would the farmers agitation end up (video) being like the Textile Strike? (Rajni Bakshi: The long haul (txt) , Ayesha, Rajeev CED- The 10th month (pdf))
Modi - "In India's agriculture sector, modernisation is the need of the hour. It has been delayed and we have already lost a lot of time," Man ki baat 28th march 202`.."In order to create new employment opportunities in the agriculture sector, to increase farmers' income, it is equally important to adopt new alternatives, innovations along with traditional agricultural practices," https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/modernisation-need-of-hour-in-agriculture-sector-pm-modi-1.5551559.
https://thewire.in/agriculture/usa-farmers-unions-msp-protests-reagan
https://www.facebook.com/WorkersUnity18/videos/145228567425067/
The Great Reset: Bill Gates & Farming - WHAT'S GOING ON? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0c2x74mgU
https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1550030588098510848/photo/1 Jul 21, 2022·
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Centre releases number of #UAPA cases registered and number of under-trials, convicted and acquitted during 2016-2020.
Thus Spake Shevek
@writingback
Any sane person looking at just this simple data can comprehend how UAPA is being used as per the govt whims instead of evidence-backed investigations. Not to miss, the weaponization of law against civil society is a fundamental of Fascism.
Viv @SudIndus Illegal incarceration more like it?
sukumar moharana @sukumar_m And this is not emergency
From Uma N,
The Center for Pluralism are starting a series of meetings, and the first one would be "*Busting myths about Hindus and Muslims*." starting Thursday, March 17, 2022, between 12 and 2 PM EST.
We owe our motherland that she and her children are safe and secure. We believe in Vasudhaiva Kutumbukum, and we believe in the dignity of every life. All our religions, the religions practiced in India, guide us to create societies where we are treated with respect and dignity.
The goal is a cohesive India where every Indian feels secure about his (meaning both genders) faith, race, language,
ethnicity, culture, and other uniqueness. The primary goal is the restoration of democracy and individual freedoms and rights.
In the video interview with Karan Thapar listed below, Sunita Viswanath speaks eloquently and appeals to the Hindus who care about India and human rights. -Hindus for Human Rights to Keep Lobbying US Congress, Govt against India's Treatment of Muslims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7I5KlJbhLA