2013

Amnesty: India, take steps to address UN concerns

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PressTV | Video Reportage | May 24, 2013

In a fresh statement Amnesty International has called on Indian government to take practical and immediate measures in order to address the numerous instances of un-law full killings and excessive use of force by its security forces.

Despite the repeated recommendations Of UN Rapporteur to establish a “credible commission of inquiry” to look into instances of extrajudicial executions in India, New Delhi has turned a blind eye to the repeated calls of rights groups.

According to the Special Rapporteur most of the unlawful killings in India occur as a result of the excessive use of force by the security forces, attacks by various armed groups, and killings of vulnerable persons.

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2012

Experts on Human Rights Discuss India’s National Report to the UN Human Rights Council

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29, November 2012 | jamiajournal.com

The Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Academy of International Studies organized a panel discussion on “India’s National Report to the UN Human Rights Council” at the Academy’s Hu Chi Minh Conference Hall on Tuesday Nov.  20, 2012.

Besides the director of the Academy, T.C.A. Rangachari, and the panel convener Prof. Jamal M. Moosa, the other three panelists where  Ravi Nair, the Director of South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC);  S. Pal, Member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC); and  Prof. A.R. Vijapur, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

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2012

Days of the Emergency

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02-12 -2012 | indianexpress

The second half of the 20th century saw civil liberties and human rights threatened around India, especially owing to the Emergency in 1975. In those days, freedom fighter Inder Mohan, also one of the founders of PUCL (Peoples Union for Civil Liberties), wrote fervently in support of people’s rights and liberties.

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2012

‘Disappeared’ in Kashmir

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The Dawn | 30th October 2012 | A.G Noorani |

IT is not surprising at all that the chief minister of Indian Kashmir, Omar Abdullah’s written statement on the disappeared persons, in the assembly on Oct 8 should have been received with complete disbelief.

He said, “Till ending July 2012, 2,305 persons have been declared missing.” FIRs were lodged only in 182 cases. In the rest of the cases, “missing reports and complaints have been lodged”.

Sana Altaf of the Srinagar daily Greater Kashmir noted “even after 23 years of armed conflict, no authentic official data exists on the number of disappeared persons in Kashmir valley while successive governments continue to come up with contradictory figures”.

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