Citizens for Justice and Peace
Khoj Celebrates International Human Rights Day CJP's Secular Educational Program keeps the spirit of Constitutional Values alive among students
11-Dec-2019
CJP’s Khoj recently celebrated International Human Rights Day with a bunch of young students from a school in Mumbai. Students came together, enacted plays, sang and danced in harmony reiterating the basic rights of an Indian Citizen. Khoj continues to promote constitutional values among young minds. Support CJP’s Secular Educational Program Khoj. Know more about…
Khoj Workshop receives overwhelming response from young women CJP's Educational Program for a plural India
18-Nov-2019
CJP’s conducted a two day workshop with a bunch of young bright students studying at Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai. The Workshop talked about Gender, Caste, Democracy, Identity, Violence, Discrimination and the values of constitution and was met with overwhelmingly positive response by the students. Khoj will continue to promote constitutional values among young minds. Related:…
CJP spreads the message of peace, helps those affected by hate CJP Wednesdays
13-Nov-2019
This Week, CJP conducted an interactive Khoj Workshop with fifty women and initiated an interfaith meeting at Ramakrishna Mission in view of the Babri Masjid Judgement. The CJP team in Assam also visited the survivors of Nellie Massacre in Borbari, 40% of whom have been left out of the final NRC. CJP is working continuously…
KHOJ: Ahinsa aur Shaanti Program on Gandhi Jayanti CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
16-Oct-2019
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti this year KHOJ organised an event titled “Ahinsa aur Shaanti” at Nadkarni Park School in Wadala for over 50 students from the Marathi, Urdu and Hindi medium schools. These students participated and performed in the event. KHOJ is an Education for a Plural India movement. It is an innovative…
KHOJ celebrates teacher’s day CJP's Educational Program for a plural India
10-Sep-2019
CJP’s Khoj is a secular educational program that teaches constitutional values to children. This is a Teachers’ Day celebration organised by Khoj in a school in Mumbai. Related: An Introduction to KHOJ KHOJ: Self Portrait and Problem Solving KHOJ: Maps and Personal Histories KHOJ: Rights and Duties
Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand get Anticipatory Bail in Khoj Case Truth wins as Guj HC provides relief to Human Rights Defenders
08-Feb-2019
In a huge victory, the Gujarat High Court has granted anticipatory bail to journalist, educationist and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad in connection to a case of alleged misappropriation of funds obtained by her education NGO Khoj from the Ministry of Human Resources Development under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The court also granted bail to her…
सत्य और न्याय के लिए हमारी जंग जारी है सचिव की कलम से
28-Nov-2018
ये सफ़र तकरीबन 17 साल पहले शुरू हुआ था. सन 2002 गुजरात में जब नफ़रत की आग भड़काई गई, तो न्याय की उम्मीद लिए हम अदालत पहुंचे, और अदालत के अंदर और बाहर जिरह का सिलसिला शुरू हो गया, यही इस सफ़र की शुरुआत थी. ये अनुभव चुनौतीपूर्ण भी रहा और बेहद अनूठा भी. इसकी अंतर्दृष्टि, मानव अधिकार…
KHOJ: Self Portrait and Problem Solving CJP's Educational Program for a Plural India
29-Oct-2018
This introductory KHOJ module aims at drawing out the emotional world of a child. Through sketches and words that describe those images and emotions we ask them to draw things they like and dislike. Through which the teacher gleans what situations make the young angry, hurt, lonely, happy or sad. To know more about this…
KHOJ: Hate Hurts, Harmony Works What is KHOJ?
25-Jul-2018
You have probably heard rumours about KHOJ, an education NGO run by activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad. But, what is KHOJ? Watch this video to learn all about our initiatives as well as our response to a whole host of false allegations. You will discover that KHOJ is not teaching children to be anti national.…
Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand move Guj HC to quash FIR in false case Matter pertains to false allegations in connection with the education NGO KHOJ
26-Jun-2018
Human rights defenders Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand have filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court asking that the FIR lodged against them by Gujarat Crime Branch, in a project titled KHOJ, be quashed. As an alternative they are seeking an order or direction for the transfer of the said case to Mumbai as…