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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2012

Pakistani Hindus Flee to India, Seeking Refugee Status

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11 September 2012 | Voice of America

NEW DELHI — A new group of Pakistani Hindus has arrived in India, seeking refugee statusciting religious persecution. A steady stream of Pakistani Hindus has come into India since last month and want to remain in the country.   

Crossing the border
The group of about 170 Hindus came by train to Jodhpur city, close to India’s western border with Pakistan. Most of them were agricultural laborers in Pakistan. 

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Pakistani Hindu Couple Torn Over India Move

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11 September 2012 | blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime

When Shaani Das left Pakistan, she didn’t imagine having to shelter from the Indian monsoon under a damp and cramped plastic tent with her husband and children.

 

But Kurup Das, her husband, says that their new life is still better than living like the “lowest” in Pakistan. “Here we have the freedom to breathe without fear,” he said.

 

The Hindu couple from Pakistan came to India on a tourist visa almost a year ago and never returned. Last month, the Indian media reported that hundreds of Hindus were flocking across the border. Over the weekend, more than 170 Hindus arrived in India from Pakistan seeking refugee status, the Press Trust of India reported.

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2012

Little to cheer for Chakma refugees in India

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aljazeera.com | 22 Jun 2012
As the world marks Refugee Day, minority Buddhist tribe from Bangladesh alleges persecution in their current location.

Villagers in Diyun, a farming hamlet in India’s remote northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh, wake up to the crack of dawn. They peep out of their huts and look at the sky. With clear weather, they set out for…………..

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