International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations calls for immediate release of human rights activist Binayak Sen
Following the lead of other organisations worldwide, International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations sent a letter to a number of government officials in India to urge them to release Mr Binayak Sen, a medical doctor and human rights activist who has been in custody for over a year. Essential in the work of IFHHRO and its members is the defence of health professionals such as Dr Sen, who are promoting the implementation of the Right to Health and who are threatened by State agencies because they are exactly doing what their profession and international law expects them to do.
The letter urges the authorities to release Dr Sen immediately, to start an inquiry into his unlawful arrest and detention, and to ensure that redress will take place. IFHHRO also calls on national and international organisations of health professionals such as the Indian Medical Association and the World Medical Association to protest against the detention of Dr Sen and insist on his immediate release, as well as on international human rights organisations to join actions against the detention of Dr Sen.
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Statement of the convention
organised by PEACE, HRLN and ANHAD
Each time there is a bomb blast like the recent one in Jaipur, the Indian State reaches out its ‘long arms of injustice’ to pick a scapegoat from amidst the Indian population to cover up its own incompetence in providing security to its citizens.
The hapless creature, decorated and demonized by the ‘fashion designers’ of Indian officialdom, is then paraded before the entire nation to create a public spectacle prior to its ritual sacrifice.
The armchair warriors then call for ‘tougher laws’ to deal with terrorism while the scapegoat disappears forever into the black hole of the Indian prison system.
That the ‘prime suspects’ in such cases always happen to be bearded young Muslim men and Islamic theologists to boot is not a surprise at all. In the racist imagination of theadministration, police , intelligence agencies , security forces, sections of the media and politicians all the criminals in this country wear their ‘criminality’ on their faces- the suspects are always MAD- Muslim, Adivasi, Dalit.
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Acceptance Speech for Jonathan Mann Award: Ilina Sen.
Awards Banquet of the Global Health Council.
Washington, DC, May 29, 2008.
What I speak today reflects the thoughts of my husband Dr Binayak Sen, who, in other circumstances should have been here, as well as of myself. On behalf of PUCL, Rupantar, Medico Friends Circle, Jan Swasthya Sahayog, Peoples’ movements and Human Rights organizations across my country, we would like to thank the Global Health Council for the Jonathan Mann Award given this year to Dr Binayak Sen, as well as for the hospitality they have extended to me and my daughters. I can not emphasize how much this honor and recognition of our work, and the support of the global health community, means to us at this time. We would like also to specially remember the Christian Medical College, Vellore, and its alumni all over the world, who have made the cause of Binayak’s freedom their own. Binayak would especially like tell you that it is a great privilege to be heir to the legacy of Dr Jonathan Mann and to be able to carry it forward. Like Dr Mann, Binayak believes that unless we try to change the world it will never change, and he is even now paying the price for following this principle..
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NDTV Correspondent
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (New Delhi)
Amnesty International on Wednesday came out with its annual report on human rights abuses across the world.
India fared badly with Amnesty saying that despite many types of human rights abuses occurring in the country, the government failed to protect the rights of its people effectively.
And for the first time, a delegation from Amnesty will be meeting the Vice President along with the National Human Rights Commission this week to present their findings.
The report documents human rights issues in 150 countries in 2007.
Here’s how India scored on the human rights scale:
Amnesty International Report denounces:
- Killings, forced eviction, excessive police force in Nandigram.
- Criticises unlawful detention of activist Dr Binayak Sen in Chhattisgarh.
(Source: Amnesty International Report, 2008)
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