India: Judicial Magistrate Takes Up the Witch-hunt

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News & Media 18 March 2013 The this afternoon held a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories, and started a general debate on the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.

The Bharat Smiling campaign of the UPA II, presumably the last of the UPAs, makes one think on these lines. Millions of followers of Indian politics would immediately draw a comparison between the India Shining of NDA regime and this one. However, ...

Activists and former bureaucrats working on Dalit issues Saturday demanded that two sub-plans for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes be passed as legislation to help in uplifting the marginalised groups. "We want the centre to introduce this bill ...

Amendments tabled by Business Secretary Vince Cable in the House of Commons state that the Equality Act will "provide for caste to be an aspect of race". This means that the Government has now conceded on the principle and has tabled an amendment ...

Terming it as a 'landmark victory in recognizing indigenous rights in India', Amnesty International has hailed the ruling by Supreme Court that the Indigenous (Adivasi) communities will have the final decision on plans for a bauxite mine by a ...

LONDON: In a major victory to 4 lakh dalits in the UK, a bill that will outlaw discrimination on the basis of caste in Britain has received Royal Assent from the Queen. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill made history in Parliament this week ...

The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the ...

Countercurrents.org Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again ...