A fact-finding team of human rights activists and lawyers that visited riot-hit Malegaon returns with disturbing evidence of a "complete communal-isation of the police and paramilitary forces

A fact-finding team of human rights activists and lawyers that visited riot-hit Malegaon returns with disturbing evidence of a "complete communal-isation of the police and paramilitary forces

Ms. Medha Patkar, social activist and environmentalist, feels that the Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) funds should be handled by the SC-ST Development Department and not by the panchayats

The ``saffronisation'' of textbooks controversy raised by the Opposition parties has been seized upon by the Bharatiya Janata Party as an encashable electoral issue in the coming Assembly elections

Why don?t stories on starvation and clean drinking water make it onto the front page of South Asian newspapers? An Indian journalist rails against the growing rift in his country between mass media and mass reality, a trend driven by increasing corporate control

Outraged at the exclusion of the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan, Greens
call democracy impossible without representation
of women

Al-Ahram Weekly's webmaster, Shohdy Naguib was arrested in the early hours of Thursday November 22 from his home in Sayeda Zeinab. Security forces raided his house at dawn, confiscated his computer...

To make a feature like this SAVE the FILE as SOURCE and edit the html with a TEXT EDITOR. Read the new file in a browser, e.g. file:C:\mydirectory\filename.txt

Terrorism, communalisation of politics and globalisation being the source of many of the problems women face at the turn of the millennium, the delegates at the sixth triennial conference of the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) were quick to come out with resolutions on Ayodhya, Afghanistan and the market-inspired resurgence of dowry.

Women are among the worst affected in the ongoing process of liberalisation and globalisation, according to the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

Two persons were killed and three seriously injured while six trucks were torched when a bandh called by the outlawed Maoist Communist Centre today turned violent in Jharkhand

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and the Attorney-General on a public interest writ petition challenging the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO)

The ``controversial'' Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) has been used in Kashmir. On Sunday, police sealed a house in the Safakadal locality of Srinagar and threw the inmates out

The World is at a Crossroads and we are a chosen generation whose decisions will determine the future of mankind for the next Millenium.

transcripts of
lecture + question/answer
session by US dissident
Noam Chomsky, 10 Nov 2001
in Chennai.

BRUTAL LATHI CHARGE IN VILLAGE CHOTTA BADADA ON PEACEFUL PROTESTORS: OVER 15 HOSPITALISED: TWO BYSTANDERS ALSO BRUTALLY BEATEN, ONE STILL SEMI-CONSCIOUS : M.P. GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS FORCIBLE SURVEYS WITHOUT ANSWERING PEOPLE'S FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

INTERNATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST WAR, DECEMBER 5

The call for an international strike of pupils and students against war for December 5 spreads internationally. Some collectives created to prepare it ; others are in creation now. There are contacts in 16 French towns, and also in Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech, Eire, Germany, Great-Britain, Hungary, Italy, Nederland, New-Zealand, Niger, Portugal, Russia and USA.

These are excerpts from a report compiled and edited by the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Nagarnaar, Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The report is a stark example of how the provisions of the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act are implemented. It is also an example of how good knowledge of the provisions of PESA that this people's movement has can put the bureaucracy and the police on the backfoot, at least temporarily. The movement clearly treasures the spirit of democracy in PESA much more than the custodians of law. This report was accessed from the DNRM mailing list (i.e. dnrm@panchayats.org)

The Jury of the 20th PUCL 'Journalism for Human Rights' Award has selected Ms. Saswati Bora of The Asian Age, Mumbai. Ms. Bora will re-ceive Rs. 20,000/-, a Plaque, and a Citation

People's Union for Civil Liberties completed 25 years of its existence on October 17, 2001