A school in Siliguri in north Bengal is giving sleepless nights to the team investigating the Saradha scam. The outgoing batch of Lincoln High School did their institution proud with a 97 per cent pass at the Indian School Certificate examinations. But the remaining 700 students and Enforcement Directorate officials are clueless about the fate…
Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC) on Friday rapped an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) for initiating proceedings under 107 CrPC against a dead man and directed the state home department to pay Rs20,000 compensation to the widow for human rights violations and agony she suffered. According to a petition filed by Ravindra Kumar, a resident of village…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended Manipur Government to Rs.5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Sorokhiabam Jibon Singh, who was killed in an encounter in Imphal on 2009. The NHRC has observed that there could be no justification for such excessive use of force even after assuming that…
The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered magisterial probes into 30 gun battles that took place in the State last year following a directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs that several encounters for which policemen were recommended for gallantry awards had not been probed. “According to the National Human Rights Commission guidelines, if anyone…
The program will be organised by Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE), an Indigenous Peoples NGO in Special Consultative Relations with ECOSOC of United Nations, and Co-Hosted by Indraprastha Public Affairs Centre (IPAC). Both are constituent members of the Coalition on Environment and Natural Resources (CENRs) which was set up in November 2012 to…
Continued crackdowns on human rights in Central Asia could backfire by encouraging extremist ideologies, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday, winding up a visit to the volatile former Soviet region. Ban chose Turkmenistan, viewed by human rights groups as one of the world’s most despotic and isolated regimes, to deliver a passionate…
Governments should endorse the new Safe Schools Declaration at the United Nations Security Council debate on children and armed conflict on June 18, 2015, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. It released a short video on protecting schools during armed conflict, featuring Ziauddin Yousafzai, UN special adviser on global education and the father of the education…
The US is hampering Poland’s investigation into the secret CIA prison by snubbing repeated requests for vital documents, including the Senate report detailing CIA prison locations and practices, a Polish prosecutor said today. Published in December, the summary of the report by the US Senate’s Intelligence Committee was redacted and did not mention Poland by…
Bill Clinton’s White House didn’t want Hillary Clinton to attend the Fourth World Conference on Women, held by the United Nations in Beijing in 1995. The Clinton administration was struggling to normalize relations with China, which had been all but severed since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. They feared that the first lady would lecture China’s hyper-sensitive…
The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has directed the Railway IG to enquire and submit a report within a month about the allegation against the Inspector in charge (IIC) of Cuttack GRP for illegally arresting six SUCI activists, including a woman and allegedly torturing them in custody. “While the party activists were engaged in public…