19-Feb-2019
Even before the embers of the funeral pyres of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men killed in the line of duty in the terrorist attack at Pulawama, could cool down, political vultures have started hovering to make the most of this ghastly tragedy to further their own divisive agenda. Kapil Mishra, an MLA from…
16-Feb-2019
At a time when the killing of 40 CRPF jawans in Pulwama, Kashmir has shocked every Indian to the core, some right wing celebrities, not to mention the usual twitter trolls took to the Internet to spread hatred against their fellow Indians. CJP’s Hate Watch documents singers and actresses who cynically used a tragedy for…
09-Feb-2019
Social media can be wielded as a powerful tool tool to educate, and elevate voices that may not be acknowledged by the mainstream. However, it can also work as a platform for the powerful target those very voices it may seek to elevate. Recently, a CJP team met with Facebook executives, and was told that…
05-Feb-2019
Sonda Habibpur village, Bulandshahr: “Sometimes, I feel like Gabbar Singh,” 44-year-old Shrikrishna said, unable to control his tears and struggling to look for documents in a thick stack, in the faint light of a single bulb in his courtyard. In the six months since he was publicly assaulted and humiliated, allegedly by mostly upper-caste men,…
05-Feb-2019
HateHatao app lets users report instances of hate speech, threats and crimes along with the evidence in form of screenshots, videos, and pictures. Over the last couple of years, the country has seen a significant rise in hate-based crimes. From hate speeches, threats to the actual events of violence, the vulnerable communities including the caste,…
04-Feb-2019
On January 30, the day of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Hindutva activist Nathuram Godse, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) launched our app, Hate Hatao, to allow citizens to submit reports of instances of hate that they may encounter. On that very day, Hindu Mahasabha national secretary Pooja Shakun Pandey was captured on…
04-Feb-2019
Naseerpur village, Mau: When the residents of Bholapur Hindoliya village in north-western Uttar Pradesh (UP) caught a 20-year-old outsider near a cattle-shed, trying to draw out a buffalo, they were enraged. Having suffered enormous losses due to frequent cattle theft, they thought they had finally found the thief. Eyewitnesses said the villagers, mostly Jats, then…
01-Feb-2019
मुंबई – देशात द्वेष वाढत चाललेला आहे. हा द्वेष संपवण्यासाठी सामाजिक कार्यकर्त्या तिस्ता सेटलवाड आणि त्यांच्या सीजेपी चमुने ‘हेट हटावो’ या अॅपची निर्मिती केली आहे. महात्मा गांधीच्या पुण्यतिथीनिमित्त या अॅपचे अनावरण करण्यात आले. समाजमाध्यमांवर द्वेष पसरवणारे अनेक व्हिडिओ असतात. या व्हिडिओमुळे समाजात दरी निर्माण होत आहे. या व्हिडिओचे मूळ शोधण्याचे काम या अॅपच्या माध्यमातून केले…
31-Jan-2019
India has witnessed a surge in hate crimes targeted at already vulnerable communities over the past few years. Not just India, developed democracies around the world are reeling under a spike in hate crimes. Reports of religious-based hate-crime cases have surged in India since the Narendra Modi-led NDA came to power in 2014, according to…
31-Jan-2019
Soi village, Bulandshahr: “Baba loved the village,” said Vakeel Ahmad, a year and a half after his father Ghulam Mohammed was lynched outside Soi village of Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh (UP), where the family had lived for generations. “He always said there can be no better place than the village,” Ahmad said, on the phone…