Archive for May, 2008

Chennai: Artists for Human Rights

Through
an Evening of Cultural Program,
(ATTAM, PATTAM and KUTHU)
‘Artist for Human Rights’

Voice Out Against
THE UNJUST DETENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
When: 29th May, 2008, 6 pm
Where: Chandralekha Center (junction of 5th avenue and 6th avenue)
No. 1, Elliots Beach road, Besant Nagar, Chennai – 90
Performances by: Chennai Kalai Kuzhu, Kanchi Makkal Mandram, and Pudhiya Thor

Dr. Binayak [...]

Protests, announcements

In MIT: “BREAD OR FREEDOM? CAN WE HAVE BOTH?”

“BREAD OR FREEDOM? CAN WE HAVE BOTH?”
Please join us in a conversation with Dr. Ilina Sen, renowned scholar, feminist and human rights activist from Chhattisgarh, India.
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 10-105 (The Bush Room)
Date: Tuesday June 3rd
Time: 7-9 p.m.

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announcements

‘Scapegoats and Holy Cows’ : State ‘Response’ to Terrorism

May 29, 2009
Seminar
Time 10am to 4pm
Venue: Main Auditorium, India International Centre, Max Mulellar Marg, New Delhi-110003

Speakers:

A. Bimol Akoijam, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Arun Shrivastava- Certified Management Consultant
Dr Syed Ahamed Anwar State Secretary, Human Rights Wing. TMMK, Tamil Nadu
Justice Rajinder Sachar – former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court
Hilal Ahmad Meer, Journalist, [...]

announcements

CRPF men gun down child, woman in Chhattisgarh camp

Indo-Asian News Service
RAIPUR, May 23: A child and a woman were killed instantly when dozens of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers lined up men and women and fired at them in a village deep in Chhattisgarh’s forested Bijapur district, which is a Maoist hot-bed, official sources said today.

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Press Reports

THE JAIPUR TERROR SCAPEGOAT:THE POOR BENGALI MUSLIM MIGRANT

PUCL RAJASTHAN’S REPORT
PART I
On the evening of the 13th of May, 2008, nine bomb blasts ripped through the spine of the walled city of Jaipur, killing more than 67 people (as of 23rd May, 2008) and injuring over two hundred people. Like in other 8 cities where similar attacks took place since 2005, Jaipur too [...]

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